Apart From Me You Can Do Nothing, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on May 6, 2012,on John 15:1-8 One of the things that I enjoy about the Super Bowl is watching the commercials. Perhaps my favorite commercial of all time was the one that was first shown in the 2011 Super [...]
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Coffee Talk Redux #118 – Apart From Me You Can Do Nothing
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Coffee Talk Redux #117 – He is Risen, Indeed
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He is Risen Indeed, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on April 22, 2012, on Luke 24:36b-48 In these first two Sunday’s after Easter it is traditional for our Gospel readings to be about Jesus’ appearances to His followers after His resurrection. Last week’s gospel lesson was about Thomas and his need [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #116 – Emptiness Holds a Promise
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Emptiness Holds a Promise, an Easter meditation given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on April 8, 2012 He is risen! This is the message of Easter and we say this in the present tense because He is risen! is a message that we are to both live and say every day of our life.
Coffee Talk Redux #115 – Handed On
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Handed On, a Maundy Thursday sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on April 5, 2012, on Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, and John 13:1-17, 31b-35 One of the things that holds us together as a society and as families as well is our traditions. So think for a moment of the traditions [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #114 – Seeing the Big Picture
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Seeing the Big Picture, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on March 18, 2012, John 3:14-21 Good Morning. You have probably heard at some time the expression where so and so just “can’t see the forest for the trees.” We say this to describe someone who gets themselves so caught up in [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #113 – It’s Complicated?
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It’s Complicated?, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on March 4, 2012, on Mark 8:31-38 Clive Staples Lewis an Irishman, who was better known as CS Lewis, was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and he is considered to be one of the most influential Christian writers in recent [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #112 – An Understanding Of Integral Human Development through a Hermeneutics of Gift, Part 6
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Here’s Part 6 of the series on Integral Human Development from my MA thesis. The Environment as Gift Pope Benedict also sees the dimension of gift in man’s relationship to the environment, that this is also part of man’s vocation since “nature is at our disposal not as ‘a heap of scattered refuse,’ but as [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #111 – Transfigured
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Transfigured, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on February 19, 2012, MK 9:2-9 So, what amazes you? What fills you with wonder? What wows you? So think for a moment, perhaps there is an event in your life, an experience, or maybe it is something you have seen that took your breath [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #110 – Change is Good
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Change Is Good, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on January 22, 2012, on Jonah 3:1-5,10 and MK 1:11-20 If I had to give a one word summary of what our readings for today are all about I would have to say they are about change. Now one of the things that [...]
Coffee Talk Redux #109 – H Two O
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H Two O, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on January 8, 2012, on MK 1:4-11 When I was a little boy, in the dog days of summer, I liked to lay on my back in the fields of tall grass behind my house and look up in the sky [...]