Tag: Deaf Man

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  What Causes You To Sigh? – A Sermon On Mark 7:24-37

  September 5, 2021

  Last week I had a phone conversation with a clergy colleague in the diocese. We have a close though slightly formal relationship. After we exchanged the usual and expected greetings and pleasantries I said to him, “So how are you, really?”  He sighed deeply and said, “It’s déjà vu. It’s just like it was last… Read more
• Openness Cures Deafness

  September 9, 2012

  The collect and readings for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on the second part of the day’s gospel, Mark 7:31-37. “They brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment.” The gospel does not tell us much about this man. We don’t… Read more