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1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Ron Love
Perhaps Phillips Brooks has given us one of the best definitions of preaching when he wrote that preaching is "Truth Through Personality." Brooks served Boston's Trinity Episcopal Church for 26 years, starting his pastorate in 1869, though he may be best known to us as the author of the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem." The problem we have today is that we love to follow the Phillips Brooks who wrote the hymn, sitting safely in our sanctuary singing: "O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, the silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark s
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