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🗓️ 15 March 2021
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
A hidden heart is a homeless heart.
The people of Israel were brought into exile. It was imposed from the outside. But after King Cyrus game them a way home, many of them chose to live in self-imposed exile. The same is true for all of us who have been exiled by our sin and slavery to death. Jesus has made it possible to step into the light and come home, but many choose to live outside the light...many of us live in self-imposed exile.
John 3:14-21
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0:00.0 | So if you are familiar with the Alpha program, we usually run Alpha in the beginning of the |
0:08.9 | Spall semester. |
0:09.9 | About halfway through, there's this story of a man whose name is Daryl Tuningley and |
0:15.0 | Daryl tells the story about how he became a criminal. |
0:19.0 | And he says, he says, people ask me how I got into crime and he said it wasn't like I |
0:22.4 | took a course in high school on how to become a criminal. |
0:25.6 | He said it was just all around me. |
0:27.4 | And he didn't even start out that bad. |
0:29.4 | He just said, he said, I started out just kind of smoking weed and drinking a bit. |
0:35.0 | And then being my buddies, we just started, actually said, me and my mates, me and my mates |
0:39.6 | started taking condorments off of expensive cars and like trading them, just stealing those |
0:43.2 | things and trading them. |
0:44.2 | And he said, we just moved from stealing parts of cars to stealing the whole car. |
0:47.8 | And then he said, they got to know the people who pulled the strings. |
0:50.4 | They got to know the people who were kind of in charge of the underworld, the criminal |
0:54.2 | underworld in Britain and said at one point, they said, okay, we have a job for you and |
0:59.9 | they had to go kidnap this man off the cuff out of his front yard because he owed this |
1:04.0 | group of people some money. |
1:05.0 | He said, he wasn't even that much money, but because he was bragging about how he wasn't |
1:08.0 | going to pay it back, we had to go get him. |
1:09.5 | And he was out there on the front yard with his son. |
1:12.1 | We rolled up, we grabbed him in front of his son through him into the car and drove to |
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