Catholic Word on Fire Podcast
Word on Fire is a program of Catholic evangelical preaching. It is evangelical in the measure that it proclaims Jesus Christ boldly in the hopes of bringing men and women to conversion and new life in Him.
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Sermon 394 :17th Sunday in OT: Do You Want?:
God says to Solomon in our first reading, 'ask for anything and I will give it to you.' What would you say if you heard that invitation. Solomon asks for wisdom and not for wealth or power or victory. Find out why that answer is so pleasing to God.
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Sermon 393 :16th Sunday in OT: Three Parables:Three Spiritual Lessons
Jesus' parables in today's Gospel tell us how and why the Kingdom of God emerges. It does so often through struggle, quietly and clandestinely, and through infiltration rather than direct confrontation.
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Sermon 392 :15th Sunday in OT: The Sower :
We have the special privilege of hearing Jesus himself interpret one of his parables. He tells us the three basic reasons why the Word is not accepted into our hearts: lack of understanding, lack of discipline, and lack of prioritization.
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Sermon 391 :14th Sunday in OT: Take My Yoke Upon You :
The Gospel for today allows us to overhear a conversation between the Father and the Son. We learn that the Son receives everything from his Father, that he is, in a word, yoked to the Father. When the Lord tells us to take his yoke, he is inviting us to pull with him, receiving through him the life …
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Sermon 390 :Peter and Paul: The Indispensable Men :
Peter and Paul were the greatest 'christophers,' Christ-bearers in the early days of the church. Though they were very different, they came together in their love for Jesus and their conviction that he was Lord. It is largely because of their witness that we gather still today in the name of Jesu …
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Sermon 389 :Old Adam, New Adam :
In his letter to the Romans, Paul tells us that Jesus is the new Adam or the second Adam. He means that Christ sums up the history of Israel and renews the human race.
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Sermon 390 :Election :
Peter and Paul were the greatest 'christophers,' Christ-bearers in the early days of the church. Though they were very different, they came together in their love for Jesus and their conviction that he was Lord. It is largely because of their witness that we gather still today in the name of Jesu …
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Sermon 389 :Election :
In his letter to the Romans, Paul tells us that Jesus is the new Adam or the second Adam. He means that Christ sums up the history of Israel and renews the human race.
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Sermon 355 : 30th Sunday in OT : Paul?s Farewell Discourse
The second letter to Timothy is Paul?s parting advice to his young colleague and spiritual son. He speaks of being poured out like a libation, of being ready for a great journey, of having fought the good fight and run the successful race. All of these images are illuminating for us as well.>
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Sermon 349 : 24th Sunday in OT : The Reckless Abandon of God?s Love
God does not love as we do, in a calculating manner. He makes his sun to shine on the good and the bad alike and his rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike. This means that he is like the Good Shepherd who seeks even the one sheep who is lost and like the father who welcomes back even the p …
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Sermon 342 : 17th Sunday in OT : The Lord?s Prayer
Our Gospel for this week is of the utmost importance, for we hear the Son of God himself teaching us to pray. In this homily, I walk rather carefully through the major petitions of the Our Father, noting how central this prayer is to Christian life and spirituality.>
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Sermon 388 :Election :
One of the key themes of the Bible is the divine election, the fact that God chooses. But God chooses, not on the basis of merit, but simply through and because of his grace. And he chooses, not to glorify those whom he elects, but rather to give them a mission of love. Accordingly, he chose Israel …
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Sermon 387 :Getting Straightened Out :
Paul's letter to the Romans explores the great theme of justification, the process by which we become rectified or straightened out in regard to God. Key to this process, says Paul, is faith, that is to say, trust in the Lord. What has thrown us off-kilter is precisely a tendency to rely on our own …
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Sermon 386 :Rock or Sand? :
What is the foundation of your life? How goes it with your heart? Are you building your spiritual house on sand or on rock? These are the fundamental questions that both the book of Deuteronomy and the Gospel of Matthew pose for us as we return to Ordinary Time.
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Sermon 385 :Panis Angelicus :
In 1264, Pope Urban IV asked Thomas Aquinas to compose the office for the newly established feast of Corpus Christi. Thomas's texts are both beautiful and profound. By studying them, we can learn much of the Church's theology of the eucharist. He tells us that Christ serves us, with his own hands, t …
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Sermon 384 :Trinity :
There is no question more important than this one: who is God? The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian answer to that question. The Trinity is simply a doctrinally exact way of stating the belief that God is love. If love is what God is, then in the very being of God there must be lover, be …
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Sermon 384 :Pentecost :
There is no question more important than this one: who is God? The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian answer to that question. The Trinity is simply a doctrinally exact way of stating the belief that God is love. If love is what God is, then in the very being of God there must be lover, be …
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Sermon 355 : 30th Sunday in OT : Pauls Farewell Discourse
The second letter to Timothy is Pauls parting advice to his young colleague and spiritual son. He speaks of being poured out like a libation, of being ready for a great journey, of having fought the good fight and run the successful race. All of these images are illuminating for us as well.>
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Sermon 349 : 24th Sunday in OT : The Reckless Abandon of Gods Love
God does not love as we do, in a calculating manner. He makes his sun to shine on the good and the bad alike and his rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike. This means that he is like the Good Shepherd who seeks even the one sheep who is lost and like the father who welcomes back even the p …
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Sermon 342 : 17th Sunday in OT : The Lords Prayer
Our Gospel for this week is of the utmost importance, for we hear the Son of God himself teaching us to pray. In this homily, I walk rather carefully through the major petitions of the Our Father, noting how central this prayer is to Christian life and spirituality.>
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