Podcasts about scripture: john 2:13-2:22

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2018 12:05

Brad Sullivan 3rd Sunday of Lent March 4, 2018 Emmanuel, Houston John 2:13-22 Wreck It Rabbi One of my kids’ and my favorite movies is an animated movie called, “Wreck It Ralph.” Ralph is a video game character, a bad guy whose catch phrase is, “I’m gonna wreck it,” and in this movie, the video game characters are kind of alive and interact with each other when they are off stage, when no one is playing the game. Ralph’s game is a game called Fix It Felix in which Ralph is, again, the bad guy, except that he doesn’t want to be the bad guy. He’s good hearted, but in the game, his job is to destroy a high rise apartment building, and as he does, the tenants shout “Fix It Felix”, and the hero, Fix It Felix comes along and fixes everything that Ralph destroys. So, everyone kinda hates Ralph, then as the movie goes on, they all realize that without Ralph, no one would play their game, and through the rest of the plot, we find that Wreck It Ralph is actually a hero, doing a lot of fixing of some bad things going on through his propensity for wrecking. Spoiler alert, by the end of the movie, they’re all friends. So, in our Gospel story today, when Jesus overturns the tables of the money changers in the Temple and drives out the animals that were being sold there, he’s kind of like Wreck It Rabbi. He saw the animals and the money changers in the Temple, and he wrecked it. The people were pretty stunned saying, “What the heck just happened?”, eventually calling out, “Fix It Pharisees.” Well, most of our Bibles probably say, “Jesus cleanse[d] the Temple.” If you’ve got a Bible that has little subject titles inserted in the text, then that insertion, that editor’s note, probably says, “Jesus cleanses the Temple.” It’s cute and catchy as titles go, but here’s the problem, Jesus wasn’t cleansing anything. See the animals and money changers, they were all supposed to be there. The blood sacrifice of animals was part of the temple worship, given as offerings to God for a variety of reasons, including forgiveness of sins. If you didn’t have the best or the right kind of animal of your own, well then you could purchase one. This was all prescribed in the law of Moses. So the people in weren’t making the temple dirty. They were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing as prescribed in the law of Moses. The problem was that the system was broken. People were stuck under the weight of trying to manage their sin with God through animal sacrifice, and all of that time and effort and resources which could have gone to improving the lives of each other, went instead to trying to appease a seemingly angry God. So, Jesus was not cleansing the Temple. He was reforming it. He was kinda taking a wrecking ball to his religion, actually, but he was following a long tradition of prophets and psalmists who kept saying over and over, “quit with this animal sacrifice stuff. The temple should be a place of prayer, and seriously, God doesn’t need any goats, or sheep, or cows, or doves. He made them; they are his already.” As the prophet Micah wrote: Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?’ ‘With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:7, 6, 8 Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly with God. That’s what Wreck It Rabbi wanted for Temple worship. That’s what Wreck It Rabbi wants for our lives, and he is happy to wreck whatever gets in the way of that. Sometimes our worship getsbtoo performance based, with people getting very upset if someone makes a mistake in the movement or words of the worship. Wreck It Rabbi comes in and says, “this is supposed to be a house of prayer, not a theater company.” Sometimes folks get angry with children making noise, and Wreck It Rabbi comes in and says, “Let the little children come to me, for the kingdom of God belongs to them.” Sometimes we get so caught up in all that we do to prepare for our worship, that we end up thinking that our primary ministry is here, to prepare for our time here, and Wreck It Rabbi comes in and says, “Go in peace to love and serve me, in those you encounter outside of here, for that is your true worship.” As Jesus comes along and wrecks things, disrupting our worship time, we sometimes get calls of “Fix It Father” from those who have been disrupted. Sometimes, it isn’t Jesus disrupting things, and we really do need to fix it. Other times, Wreck It Rabbi may want us to be disrupted, taking us out of our comfort and our routine in order to wake us up to see him in our lives beyond the Temple, the church, the worship. By reforming the Temple, in the story we heard today, Wreck It Rabbi reminds us that our lives are not meant to lead us to worship. We don’t spend our time preparing ourselves to be worthy enough to worship God in just the right way. We spend time in worship and prayer to heal our hearts so that we can do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God. That’s God’s desire for us. Our truest offerings during prayer and worship are the offerings of our hearts. Whatever is holding us back from doing justice and loving kindness, that is what we offer to God. In the Morning Prayer service, there is a prayer called, “A Collect for Saturdays,” and I love this prayer except for one word, “sanctuary.” “Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties may be duly prepared for the service of your sanctuary…” (BCP p. 99) Wait a minute. Is there anything we can do to make us righteous enough before God to be worthy enough to come near to the holy place where God dwells? No. We aren’t going to make ourselves more righteous than Jesus already has. Wreck It Rabbi has no interest in gospels of sin management that keep us down under the heavy burden of fearing an angry God who feels that we are never good enough for him. That’s part of why he and the prophets took a wrecking ball to the animal sacrifice system of Temple worship, and thankfully, Wreck It Rabbi continues to wreck our worship and our ways of life whenever gospels of sin management keep us down, fearing an angry God, rather than trusting in Jesus’ Gospel of light and grace which tells us we are beloved children of a loving God, and that we are worthy to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with God. So, that prayer, then, that collect for Saturdays? I’ve changed that word “sanctuary” to “kingdom.” No we pray, “Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties may be duly prepared for the service of your kingdom…” That is what our rest is for. That is what our worship and prayer is for, so that we may be duly prepared for the service of God’s kingdom, doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God. What does that look like? Well, that’s going to be a bit different for all of us. For me, one of my passions is children and schools. I was at a meeting of faith leaders on Thursday morning with the HISD superintendent, Richard Carranza, and School Board president, Rhonda Skillern-Jones, among the topics discussed, they invited us to come to a training on March 29 to learn about how best to partner churches with schools to have folks be mentors for kids, to address the needs that principals tell us are there, and to be a part of the village that raises up kids in our community. You can bet I’m going to be there at that meeting because that’s my passion. That’s the broken thing that Wreck It Rabbi has given me a passion for where I would like to do justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly with God. What about you? What broken thing has Wreck It Rabbi given you a passion for? What broken thing is Jesus calling you to fix? That’s why we’re here. Wreck It Rabbi has brought us here this morning to strengthen us, to heal our hearts, and to remind us that we are beloved children of a loving God so that as we leave this place, we may have eyes to see the broken places and systems of our world and say, “I’m going to wreck it,” and through that wrecking, to fix it, doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God.

Wreck It Rabbi - Audio

Henderson Community Baptist Church

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2018 12:05

Brad Sullivan 3rd Sunday of Lent March 4, 2018 Emmanuel, Houston John 2:13-22 Wreck It Rabbi One of my kids’ and my favorite movies is an animated movie called, “Wreck It Ralph.” Ralph is a video game character, a bad guy whose catch phrase is, “I’m gonna wreck it,” and in this movie, the video game characters are kind of alive and interact with each other when they are off stage, when no one is playing the game. Ralph’s game is a game called Fix It Felix in which Ralph is, again, the bad guy, except that he doesn’t want to be the bad guy. He’s good hearted, but in the game, his job is to destroy a high rise apartment building, and as he does, the tenants shout “Fix It Felix”, and the hero, Fix It Felix comes along and fixes everything that Ralph destroys. So, everyone kinda hates Ralph, then as the movie goes on, they all realize that without Ralph, no one would play their game, and through the rest of the plot, we find that Wreck It Ralph is actually a hero, doing a lot of fixing of some bad things going on through his propensity for wrecking. Spoiler alert, by the end of the movie, they’re all friends. So, in our Gospel story today, when Jesus overturns the tables of the money changers in the Temple and drives out the animals that were being sold there, he’s kind of like Wreck It Rabbi. He saw the animals and the money changers in the Temple, and he wrecked it. The people were pretty stunned saying, “What the heck just happened?”, eventually calling out, “Fix It Pharisees.” Well, most of our Bibles probably say, “Jesus cleanse[d] the Temple.” If you’ve got a Bible that has little subject titles inserted in the text, then that insertion, that editor’s note, probably says, “Jesus cleanses the Temple.” It’s cute and catchy as titles go, but here’s the problem, Jesus wasn’t cleansing anything. See the animals and money changers, they were all supposed to be there. The blood sacrifice of animals was part of the temple worship, given as offerings to God for a variety of reasons, including forgiveness of sins. If you didn’t have the best or the right kind of animal of your own, well then you could purchase one. This was all prescribed in the law of Moses. So the people in weren’t making the temple dirty. They were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing as prescribed in the law of Moses. The problem was that the system was broken. People were stuck under the weight of trying to manage their sin with God through animal sacrifice, and all of that time and effort and resources which could have gone to improving the lives of each other, went instead to trying to appease a seemingly angry God. So, Jesus was not cleansing the Temple. He was reforming it. He was kinda taking a wrecking ball to his religion, actually, but he was following a long tradition of prophets and psalmists who kept saying over and over, “quit with this animal sacrifice stuff. The temple should be a place of prayer, and seriously, God doesn’t need any goats, or sheep, or cows, or doves. He made them; they are his already.” As the prophet Micah wrote: Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?’ ‘With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old? He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:7, 6, 8 Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly with God. That’s what Wreck It Rabbi wanted for Temple worship. That’s what Wreck It Rabbi wants for our lives, and he is happy to wreck whatever gets in the way of that. Sometimes our worship getsbtoo performance based, with people getting very upset if someone makes a mistake in the movement or words of the worship. Wreck It Rabbi comes in and says, “this is supposed to be a house of prayer, not a theater company.” Sometimes folks get angry with children making noise, and Wreck It Rabbi comes in and says, “Let the little children come to me, for the kingdom of God belongs to them.” Sometimes we get so caught up in all that we do to prepare for our worship, that we end up thinking that our primary ministry is here, to prepare for our time here, and Wreck It Rabbi comes in and says, “Go in peace to love and serve me, in those you encounter outside of here, for that is your true worship.” As Jesus comes along and wrecks things, disrupting our worship time, we sometimes get calls of “Fix It Father” from those who have been disrupted. Sometimes, it isn’t Jesus disrupting things, and we really do need to fix it. Other times, Wreck It Rabbi may want us to be disrupted, taking us out of our comfort and our routine in order to wake us up to see him in our lives beyond the Temple, the church, the worship. By reforming the Temple, in the story we heard today, Wreck It Rabbi reminds us that our lives are not meant to lead us to worship. We don’t spend our time preparing ourselves to be worthy enough to worship God in just the right way. We spend time in worship and prayer to heal our hearts so that we can do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God. That’s God’s desire for us. Our truest offerings during prayer and worship are the offerings of our hearts. Whatever is holding us back from doing justice and loving kindness, that is what we offer to God. In the Morning Prayer service, there is a prayer called, “A Collect for Saturdays,” and I love this prayer except for one word, “sanctuary.” “Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties may be duly prepared for the service of your sanctuary…” (BCP p. 99) Wait a minute. Is there anything we can do to make us righteous enough before God to be worthy enough to come near to the holy place where God dwells? No. We aren’t going to make ourselves more righteous than Jesus already has. Wreck It Rabbi has no interest in gospels of sin management that keep us down under the heavy burden of fearing an angry God who feels that we are never good enough for him. That’s part of why he and the prophets took a wrecking ball to the animal sacrifice system of Temple worship, and thankfully, Wreck It Rabbi continues to wreck our worship and our ways of life whenever gospels of sin management keep us down, fearing an angry God, rather than trusting in Jesus’ Gospel of light and grace which tells us we are beloved children of a loving God, and that we are worthy to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with God. So, that prayer, then, that collect for Saturdays? I’ve changed that word “sanctuary” to “kingdom.” No we pray, “Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties may be duly prepared for the service of your kingdom…” That is what our rest is for. That is what our worship and prayer is for, so that we may be duly prepared for the service of God’s kingdom, doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God. What does that look like? Well, that’s going to be a bit different for all of us. For me, one of my passions is children and schools. I was at a meeting of faith leaders on Thursday morning with the HISD superintendent, Richard Carranza, and School Board president, Rhonda Skillern-Jones, among the topics discussed, they invited us to come to a training on March 29 to learn about how best to partner churches with schools to have folks be mentors for kids, to address the needs that principals tell us are there, and to be a part of the village that raises up kids in our community. You can bet I’m going to be there at that meeting because that’s my passion. That’s the broken thing that Wreck It Rabbi has given me a passion for where I would like to do justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly with God. What about you? What broken thing has Wreck It Rabbi given you a passion for? What broken thing is Jesus calling you to fix? That’s why we’re here. Wreck It Rabbi has brought us here this morning to strengthen us, to heal our hearts, and to remind us that we are beloved children of a loving God so that as we leave this place, we may have eyes to see the broken places and systems of our world and say, “I’m going to wreck it,” and through that wrecking, to fix it, doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God.

Righteous Indignation - PDF

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018

We need to be able to control our anger. There are some times when Christians need to be angry. There are times when NOT getting angry is a sin.

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All In - PDF

The University Church

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018

In John's account of Jesus cleansing the Temple we see how Jesus commits to his pathway forward in a way that cannot be reversed. Our own call in be "all in" as we work towards the Kingdom of God is made apparent and speaks to us across the centuries to make our own commitment absolute.

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Righteous Indignation - Audio

Henderson Community Baptist Church

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018 56:49

We need to be able to control our anger. There are some times when Christians need to be angry. There are times when NOT getting angry is a sin.

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The Father's House

Central UMC Florence

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018 13:49

Central UMC, Florence SC

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Facing Darkness: Dark Systems - Audio

Storyline Christian Community

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018 40:00

Storyline Christian Community

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All In - Audio

The University Church

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018 26:47

In John's account of Jesus cleansing the Temple we see how Jesus commits to his pathway forward in a way that cannot be reversed. Our own call in be "all in" as we work towards the Kingdom of God is made apparent and speaks to us across the centuries to make our own commitment absolute.

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Putting Anger on the Table - Audio

Petaluma First Presbyterian Church

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018 20:22

Rev. Judy Slater brings a different perspective about Jesus's clearing of the temple and his prediction of resurrection.

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No More “Mr. Nice Guy” - Audio

Traditional Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2018 15:06

Traditional Sermon

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John: Keeping Your Temple Holy (2-11-2018)

Crosspoint Church of Mobile

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2018 36:18

Sunday Morning Services of Crosspoint Church of Mobile

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02/04/2018 PM - The New Temple of God

Armitage Messages

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2018 27:25

Listen to the messages from our weekly Sunday morning and Sunday evening worship services.

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02/04/2018 PM - The New Temple of God

Armitage Messages

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2018 27:25

Listen to the messages from our weekly Sunday morning and Sunday evening worship services.

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Emojional: Anger - Audio

Great Commission Fellowship

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2017 37:59

Great Commission Fellowship

scripture: john 2:13-2:22

The Gospel of John: Spring Cleaning - Audio

City Light Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2017 42:32

This is the full collection of sermons preached at City Light Church in Vicksburg, MS. For more information on the church and its ministries, please visit citylightvicksburg.org

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The Gospel of John: Spring Cleaning - Audio

City Light Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2017 42:32

This is the full collection of sermons preached at City Light Church in Vicksburg, MS. For more information on the church and its ministries, please visit citylightvicksburg.org

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Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple

Sunday Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2017 47:28

Teaching from the Word of God.

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Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple

Sunday Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2017 47:28

Teaching from the Word of God.

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You Are Church - Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2016 52:29

Pastor Ken Whitten Continues his series You Are the Church with this Sunday morning message

You Are Church - PDF

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2016

Pastor Ken Whitten Continues his series You Are the Church with this Sunday morning message

You Are Church - Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2016 52:29

Pastor Ken Whitten Continues his series You Are the Church with this Sunday morning message

You Are Church - PDF

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2016

Pastor Ken Whitten Continues his series You Are the Church with this Sunday morning message

Calvary Evangelical Church, Brighton, UK

Jesus expels traders from the Temple - Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2016 54:10

The cleansing of the temple is a sign of the coming kingdom.

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A Consuming Zeal - Audio

Early Church of Christ

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2016 29:43

"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever." (Jeremiah 7:5-7, ESV)

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Let's Talk About Jesus - Audio

Light Into the Darkness - by Dr. Jerry N Watts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2015 35:52

The characteristics of Jesus are many. Yet, many have a skewed view of the Biblical Jesus. This message gives some 'handles' to who Jesus is, what He offers, and what He does.

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Lent 3 - Overturned - Audio

First Presbyterian Church Austin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2015 19:02

What needs to be overturned in your life?

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9:00AM Youth Sunday Sermon

Central UMC Florence

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2015 10:20

Central UMC, Florence SC

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This Won't Do - Transformed - Audio

First Presbyterian Church Austin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2015 10:22

I stopped drinking coffee last week, not out of a Lenten discipline, but simply because I was drinking too much, still tired all the time, and I thought, "This won't do." The week was fine until Thursday. I had a long day leading to a long night, and I wanted just one cup of coffee in the afternoon. Then I thought, "I can do all things through God who strengthens me." (Philippians 4:13). I prayed that scripture, and I was suddenly no longer tired. God answered yes, and gave me strength. I realized then that my comments in weeks past about diet coke and chocolate not meaning that much as Lenten sacrifices were wrong. If giving those things up can bring you to pray, "I can do all things through God who strengthens me," then it is a great disciple. Anything in your life that just won't do is a great Lenten sacrifice. Jesus saw the money changers and the animals in the temple and thought, "this won't do." He was not, however, cleansing the temple as many Bible section headings say. Jesus was seeking to reform the temple. Money was paid to the temple for its upkeep, and the money changers were there to trade foreign coins for coins proper for the temple. It was like a currency exchange when we go to other countries. There was likely however some underhanded profit going on, and that wouldn't do. The animals that were there were supposed to be there. People were supposed to bring animals for sacrifice, the best they had. If their animals were deemed unworthy sacrifices, they would be redeemed for a certain amount of money. This was practice recorded in Leviticus. It seems that for Jesus, however, the practice had gone on long enough. My guess is that the heart of the practice (giving the best you had to the Lord) had departed somewhat, and it had simply become a transactional arrangement. Not to mention that for centuries, God had been speaking through the prophets saying, "stop sacrificing animals. I made them all and I don't need any from you." Jesus saw all that was going on and said, "this won't do," and he sought to reform the Temple. So, what in our life needs reforming? We've heard for a long time now about our need to live our lives as disciples of Jesus beyond the walls of the church building. Bishop Doyle has talked about it, and he brought Caesar Kalinowski to our last clergy conference to talk about his book, "Transformed". In the book, he talks about life as Jesus' disciples being about not only the couple of hours at worship on Sunday, but also about the other 6 days and 22 hours. Salvation isn't just about getting a ticket punched to go to heaven when we die, but also about living as Jesus' disciples, his brothers and sisters, as servant missionaries. The church is the people, not the building. He describes living out this life in simple ways of being together with "missionary communities", small groups of people from the larger church community who gather regularly to eat together, pray and study together, and live as Jesus' missionaries. If a neighbor is in need, they wouldn't necessarily call the pastor, they'd call their missionary community and help out together. We'll be studying Caesar Kalinowski's book, "Transformed" over the next several Sundays (beginning March 22), and also in small groups after Easter. That is the way of Jesus which we are going to be living at St. Mark's. Growing deeply with one another, and serving our community as Jesus' brothers and sisters. Such a life may seem daunting or difficult, but like our Lenten disciplines, we can do all things through God who strengthens us. Amen.

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Lent 3 - Overturned - PDF

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2015

What needs to be overturned in your life?

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Mercy Seat - Audio

First United Methodist Church of Joshua, TX

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2015 15:21

Sunday Morning Worship Service

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This Won't Do - Transformed - Audio