Acts 1:6-14 – Look! Up in the air! It’s a bird, a plane, a …?
This reading is the selection to be read on the Seventh Sunday of Easter. It will next be read aloud in catholic-based churches on...
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R. T. Tippett
May 17, 20205 min read
My mother and my brothers
I wrote and posted this a while back (December 2019). Only a few people clicked on it then (none since December 22, 2019). I don’t know...
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R. T. Tippett
May 16, 202013 min read
Bible Studies 2 – Reference Tools
Since nobody responded to my first offering of “Shelter in Place” Bible Studies, nobody made any suggestions for what to talk about next....
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R. T. Tippett
May 15, 202012 min read
Sixth Sunday of Easter Sermon – All you need is love
Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Jesus spoke the words of God, whenever he was quoted in the Gospels....
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R. T. Tippett
May 14, 20206 min read
John 14:15-21 – In love with God
This is the Gospel reading for the Sixth Sunday of Easter. It will next be read aloud in many Christian churches on Sunday, May 17, 2020....
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R. T. Tippett
May 13, 202014 min read
1 Peter 3:13-22 – The fear of suffering
The Epistle reading for the Sixth Sunday of Easter comes from the first letter of Peter, his third chapter. In Peter’s first epistle,...
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R. T. Tippett
May 12, 202011 min read
Psalm 66: 7-18 – Praise to what made Israel great under David
This song of praise is selected to be sung loudly in Episcopal churches on the Sixth Sunday of Easter. The Easter season is when all of...
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R. T. Tippett
May 11, 202012 min read
Acts 17:22-31 – To an unknown god
Christianity has grown cataracts over its eyes. Christians are blind to the fact that they have transformed into the Jews that killed...
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R. T. Tippett
May 10, 20209 min read
Bible Studies 1 – Holy Mysteries
Welcome to social distancing Bible Studies. This is a new venture I am trying. Your participation is important, so feel free to ask...
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R. T. Tippett
May 6, 202013 min read
Important notes for constructing homilies for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
The Fifth Sunday of Easter has a central focus on death and rebirth. The death part is fairly easy, since the Acts story of Stephen’s...
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R. T. Tippett
May 3, 20209 min read
Acts 2:42-47 – The beginning of Messianic Faith
In the Episcopal Lectionary for the Fourth Sunday of Easter includes this reading from the Acts of the Apostles: She then said scholars...
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R. T. Tippett
May 1, 202018 min read
Good Shepherd Sunday: Jesus used this figure of speech
Note: I write this as an Episcopalian that is now denied physical access to the properties owned by the Episcopal Church [of the United...
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R. T. Tippett
Apr 28, 202010 min read
Please Sir (or Ma’am) Might I have a Good Sermon
The advent of Facebook church is sounding a death knell for Christianity in America (the non-Socialist parts north of Mexico and Cuba and...
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R. T. Tippett
Apr 26, 20204 min read
The road to Emmaus
For anyone who cares, I feel it is most important to clarify a misunderstanding about the Gospel of Luke’s road to Emmaus account. Here...
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R. T. Tippett
Apr 21, 202013 min read
Third Sunday of Easter and a Psalm Proposing Marriage
The Third Sunday of Easter, like all Sundays inside the confines of Episcopalian churches in America, finds a Psalm of David read aloud. ...
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R. T. Tippett
Apr 18, 20207 min read
Christianity Then and Now
Being a Christian seems to be the easiest choice of religion anywhere. It is easy to be born into a religion, where the child...
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R. T. Tippett
Apr 13, 20204 min read
A Prayer Answered
I held a funeral service for my wife on her birthday. It was a burial at sea, done from a sailboat. My wife was an Episcopal priest. I am...
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R. T. Tippett
Mar 17, 202012 min read
Flesh vs Spirit, as told by Ezekiel and Paul
Romans 8:6-11 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this reason the mind that...
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R. T. Tippett
Mar 15, 202020 min read
John 9:1-41 The Man Born Blind Healed
John 9:1-41 As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,...
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R. T. Tippett
Mar 14, 20204 min read
Coronavirus be damned!
In my email this morning I found one from Arby’s that was supposed to reassure me that they are doing everything possible to keep making...
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