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Blessed Are the Peacemakers — A Sermon

April 8, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

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This week I preached on one of the Beatitudes: Blessed are the Peacemakers. I thought I’d share it with you. If you’ve come here looking for my children’s sermons these last two weeks, I’m sorry to say they were not to be found. It’s a very complicated season in my life, one of the larger […]

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Do You Cite Your Sources in Sermons? (Letters to a Young Pastor)

February 16, 2017 by Gary Neal Hansen 3 Comments

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Dear ______: Well I suppose you are right on both counts: I didn’t quite answer your question, and I didn’t explain my most interesting point very well. Sorry. I’ll give it another go. You asked Just how much do pastors depend other people’s commentaries in their sermon development? How much is reading or quoting others […]

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