“If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars”, G. K. Chesterton. Plant a seed along the way to grace and it will sprout from under your foot to the shades of the earth and the birds…
Sermons
What is being Born Again?
Remember, the wind uproots us and transplants us and it blows where it wills and all will be changed, including the meaning of words that constrains the understanding of even God. Be born again is seeing and hearing, being and living deeper than we are allowed by our limited world.
God is likely to fail again!
In the actual preaching he often adds a few comments and connections as inspired that are not in this text.The following sermon is a working manuscript from which Fr. Jos Tharakan, Rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Russellville, AR, Preached today. In the jungles of South America in 1978 there was a massacre. Innocent people…
A Civil Disobedience!
Exodus 1:8-2:10 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us…
Restriction or Liberation: What is Faith?
Welive in a multi-cultural, multi-religious world. We have had many of these religions for a long time and some are still emerging. Our understanding of self, individual fulfillment, and interpretation of history has given us even more freedom to make new groups and belief systems and after 38000 Christian denominations and counting, besides all other…