{"id":9325,"date":"2023-10-17T05:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2023-10-17T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T21:27:24","slug":"two-sermons-for-the-twentieth-sunday-after-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=9325","title":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size:40px\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0)\">Two Sermons for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon 1: The foolishness of God is wiser than men<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Sermon for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; 5:24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Thessalonians, the earliest of Paul\u2019s letters, has some significant things to say that are said with a certain drama, both in words and in thought. It seems that Paul just wrote it spontaneously. How did he do it? How could he have just written these kinds of things that we find in the letters of Paul?<\/p>\n\n\n\nSelect <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=9331\"> here<\/a> to read more or <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Pente-1-Thess-1-1-10.pdf\">here <\/a>for a pdf document.\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon 2: \u201cHe who calls you is faithful and he will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Thessalonians 1:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sermon for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago a major church event happened. The Diocese of Pittsburgh voted to leave the Episcopal Church. This was an important diocese and a major break in that church. It\u2019s best understood by a remark made by the head of the Episcopal Church at that time, Presiding Bishop Griswold. He wrote: \u201cOur problem is that we have two religions within our church. One religion is based on experience, and the other religion based on the traditional message of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nSelect <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=9335\"> here<\/a> to read more or <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Pente-1-Thessalonians.pdf\">here <\/a>for a pdf document.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sermon 1: The foolishness of God is wiser than men<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; 5:24<\/p>\n<p>1 Thessalonians, the earliest of Paul\u2019s letters, has some significant things to say that are said with a certain drama, both in words and in thought. It seems that Paul just wrote it spontaneously. How did he do it? How could he have just written these kinds of things that we find in the letters of Paul?<\/p>\n<p>Select <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=9335\"> here<\/a> to read more or <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Pente-1-Thessalonians.pdf\">here <\/a>for a pdf document.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sermon 2: \u201cHe who calls you is faithful and he will do it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Thessalonians 1:1-10<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago a major church event happened. The Diocese of Pittsburgh voted to leave the Episcopal Church. This was an important diocese and a major break in that church. It\u2019s best understood by a remark made by the head of the Episcopal Church at that time, Presiding Bishop Griswold. He wrote: \u201cOur problem is that we have two religions within our church. One religion is based on experience, and the other religion based on the traditional message of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Select <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=9331\"> here<\/a> to read more or <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Pente-1-Thess-1-1-10.pdf\">here <\/a>for a pdf document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9349,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions\/9349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}