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What the Bible Says about the Afterlife
I’ve been a pastor for twenty years. If there’s one thing people have questions about, it’s the afterlife. If there’s one thing people...
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Don’t Just Give Up, Take Up: A Lenten Reflection #UMC
A sermon preached on Ash Wednesday 2015 at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama. The invitation to observe a holy Lent is...
Matt O'Reilly
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Do We Need the Creed? In Dialogue with @umjeremy #UMC
Should churches stop using the historic Creeds in weekly worship? Rev. Jeremy Smith seems to think so and attempts to make the case with...
Matt O'Reilly
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Why Pray?
From the Forward to Winfield Bevins’ Our Common Prayer (paper, Kindle), this is Ashley Null: Constant prayer, then, is the key to the...
Matt O'Reilly
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3 Ways Christ is Present in the Eucharist (@KreeftQuotes)
How is Christ present in the sacrament of Holy Communion? Here’s Peter Kreeft in his book Catholic Christianity (paper, Kindle), which is...
Matt O'Reilly
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The Liturgy and the Gospel (@OfficialSeedbed)
The team at Seedbed.com was kind enough to publish an essay in which I recount three key reasons I am increasingly drawn to liturgical...
Matt O'Reilly
3 min read
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