This last Sunday I preached my second sermon at my church, St. John's Anglican in Franklin, TN. I'm really grateful for the opportunity to serve the Church in this way. Preaching is very new to me, and I feel like I'm learning a lot about how to study and exegete a passage, and how to …
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Luke 9:51-56 – Be Kind to Those Who Do Not Know the Lord
This last Sunday I had the opportunity to preach my first sermon at my church St. John's Anglican in Franklin, TN. It was a great experience preparing for this opportunity, and I hope to do it again at some point, if the opportunity arises. I appreciate the patience of the congregation who sat and listened …
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Nothing to See Here, Everything is Perfectly Normal
Have you ever found yourself desiring something that was so clearly worse than what you already have that you wonder what in the world could be driving you to want it?One day I felt this very thing. It was a perfectly normal day, and I wasn't unhappy, or tired, or sad. I didn't notice myself …
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Restoration for a Nation in Exile and a World without Hope
The nation of Israel was in exile.1 They had their temple but were under the sovereignty of a pagan nation that did not know, nor respect, their God, Yahweh. Over 500 years earlier during the reign of the Persian king, Cyrus the Great, the tribes of Benjamin and Judah returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple …
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Jesse Orloff 