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Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Never having done a blog before, I am begging this first blog to post our weekly sermons from St. Paul's for members who miss a week, and for anyone else who God leads to read them.  As we are in the midst of a Revelation sermon series that began on the first Sunday in January, I am going to go back and post from that point forward.  If you have questions about the approach I am taking with Revelation, don't start in the middle, go back to the beginning.

Peace and grace,
Pastor Lee

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