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We will lay down our swords and shields down by the riverside to study war.

Were you one of the 29 million people around the world that watched Prince Harry wed Megan Markle and St George's Chapel? Well, amidst all of the royal pageantry, was the sermon spoken by the presiding Bishop of the Episcopal

Church, the most Reverend Michael Curry.

He preached of love and the good news of Christ's word for all to hear.

It was beautiful.

If humanity ever captures the energy of love.

It will be the second time in history

that we have discovered fire.

Dr. King was right. We must discover love, the redemptive power of love.

And when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world.

29 million people were watching. He could have spoken about anything, but the

message was too important, the crowd too large. He knew he had to share the hope of the risen Christ because he knew Sunday was

a-coming.

2,000 years ago, that Easter week, on that Friday the earth trembled.

The sky grew dark.

The king yielded his spirit.

On Friday, hope was lost.

Death had won.

And Satan, he was just laughing.

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