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The Deacon's Bench
A preacher’s preacher
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deacon greg kandra
Heard any good preaching lately? Priests in Florida evidently did — and the Florida Catholic has a profile of the man responsible: Talk about pressure. Imagine standing for an hour in front of more than 100 priests and talking about preaching a homily. Luckily, Jesuit Father J-Glenn Murray knows how to captivate an audience. During…
Preaching to the converted: how sermons helped make America
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deacon greg kandra
Another new book to add to my sagging and overcrowded shelf: A City Upon A Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American History by Larry Witham. According to the description at Amazon.com: The Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about “a city upon a hill,” Abraham Lincoln’s two greatest speeches have been called “sermons on…
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