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The Annunciation and the “Impossible”

By Jonathan Mitchican The angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her a series of impossible-seeming things. The first and most obvious is the thing we’re celebrating today. He announced to Mary that she would c... Read More...

The Honey-Sweet Doctor: Bernard of Clairvaux

You can almost smell the pages of Scripture as you turn the pages of Bernard’s sermons.

How to preach sermons that don’t suck

Let’s be honest, most sermons today are terrible. They are boring. They ramble. They sound like bad imitations of high school book reports.

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