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A sermon by Rt Reverend Ed Crabtree based on; John 14:23-29

Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of the American dream,  but as a part of that dream society paints the picture that your home reveals who you are, and who you think you want to be.  The bigger the home, the more important and prosperous person you must be, has been the conventional wisdom that many people have held for years.  Passersby see a large mansion and think wealth and importance lives there, but when they see a small run down cottage they see the abode of poverty and degradation. [Read more →]

• In the former part of this chapter (Galatians 5) the apostle cautions the Galatians to take heed of the judaizing teachers, who endeavored to bring them back under the bondage of the law.  Christians (are not) under any obligation to submit to it, therefore he would have them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and not to be again entangled with the yoke of bondage. Here observe, under the gospel we are enfranchised, we are brought into a state of liberty, wherein we are freed from the yoke of the ceremonial law and from the curse of the moral law; so that we are no longer tied to the observance of the one, nor tied up to the rigor of the other, which curses every one that continues not in all things written therein to do them,  We owe this liberty to Jesus Christ. It is he who has made us free; [Read more →]