Word On Fire Sermons

Your Water into God’s Wine

Friends, this week we resume Ordinary Time, and the Church gives us this extraordinary story of...

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Priests, Prophets, and Kings

Friends, when we are baptized, we are grafted onto Christ, who has anointed us all as priests,...

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Is Science Opposed to Faith?

Friends, the supposed warfare between religion and science is assumed by a lot of young people...

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Love the Ones You’re Given

Friends, families teach us that we don’t always get to choose the people we love, but we’re given...

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Give Up the Ego-Drama!

Friends, most of us are stuck in the boring and narrow confines of the ego-drama. Mary is not...

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Have You Found Joy?

Friends, on this Gaudete Sunday, we are called to rejoice! Detach yourself from the anxieties of...

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The Historical Reality of Jesus

Friends, a couple years ago, there was a poll conducted in Great Britain that revealed that the...

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Look Back, Look Around, Look Forward

Friends, many years ago, in the context of a high school religion class, a very wise Benedictine...

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Look Back, Look Around, Look Forward

Friends, many years ago, in the context of a high school religion class, a very wise Benedictine...

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Is Jesus the King of Your Life?

Friends, this Feast of Christ the King encapsulates what the Christian life is all about. All the...

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What Is the Apocalypse?

Friends, there is something dark, threatening, and a little bit dire about the Gospel reading...

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Trust in the Lord

Friends, a connection with God leads to life and flourishing. When we sever that connection, we...

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No God but the Lord Alone

Friends, God is not satisfied to be in the background of your life. The Lord your God is the Lord...

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Are You Blinded by Cities of Sin?

Friends, in today’s Gospel, we hear the marvelous story of the healing of blind Bartimaeus—an...

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Do You Really Want What God Wants?

Friends, power and honor, in and of themselves, are not a bad thing, but we wreak havoc when we...

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It’s Time for a Radical Choice

Friends, in our first reading today, Solomon finds that all the power and wealth of the world are...

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How to Fall in Love

Friends, our readings this weekend have to do with biblical anthropology—or who we are in the...

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We Just Don’t Get It

Friends, let us rejoice whenever the grace of God is on display. The point of the sacraments is...

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Envy Will Destroy Us

Friends, when envy takes over our spiritual lives, we sow disorder and disintegration. The life...

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God Suffers for Us

Friends, with our readings from this weekend, we are on very holy ground because we’re...

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