# epistle — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover epistle.

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## [Sermon: St. Joachim - The Christian Father, by Rev. Philip Eldracher](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-st-joachim-the-christian-father-by-rev-philip-eldracher)

_2026-08-17 · Roman Catholic Media_

Given on the feast of St. Joachim, occurring on the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, 2026.

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## [1-FC 08-16-2026AM - A Gospel Prayer Worth Imitating](http://www.tbcpdx.org/audio/2026-08-16AM_01-FC.mp3)

_2026-08-16 · Trinity Bible Church Sunday AM Messages_

1-FC 08-16-2026AM - Series: 2026 Summer Family Camp - Title: A Gospel Prayer Worth Imitating - Scripture: Colossians 1:1-14

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## [Sermon: A Father's Glory, by Rev. Tobias Bayer](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-a-fathers-glory-by-rev-tobias-bayer)

_2026-08-16 · Roman Catholic Media_

Sermon delivered on the Feast of St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, 2026, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by Rev. Tobias Bayer. Epistle: Ecclus. 39, 6-14 | Gospel: Matt. 1, 1-16.

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## [Sermon: The Assumption of Our Lady, by Rev. Michael DeSaye](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-the-assumption-of-our-lady-by-rev-michael-desaye)

_2026-08-16 · Roman Catholic Media_

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## [Sermon: Frequent Salutations, by Rev. Tobias Bayer](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-frequent-salutations-by-rev-tobias-bayer)

_2026-08-16 · Roman Catholic Media_

Sermon delivered on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2026, at Queen of All Saints chapel in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, by Rev. Tobias Bayer. Epistle: Judith 13, 22-25; 15, 10 | Gospel: Luke 1, 41-50

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## James - Undivided Faith - Week 12

_2026-08-16 · Covenant Church Willis_

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## [The Faith of My Fathers](https://garrettham.com/faith-of-my-fathers/)

_2026-08-16 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

A Catholic convert's gratitude for the Southern Baptist faith that raised him—the Bible under his arm, the casseroles, the cost, the hymn verse he never sang.

## [+++Trinity 10 August 9 AD 2026+++](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RevDeal/episodes/Trinity-10-August-9-AD-2026-e3nc3lb)

_2026-08-13 · Jacob Deal · RevDeal_

Jeremiah 7:1–11 / 1 Corinthians 12:2–11 / Luke 19:41–48

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## [+++Trinity 9 August 2 AD 2026+++](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RevDeal/episodes/Trinity-9-August-2-AD-2026-e3nc2sj)

_2026-08-13 · Jacob Deal · RevDeal_

Proverbs 16:1–9 / 1 Corinthians 10:6b–13\* / Luke 16:1–9

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## [Sermon: Childhood and Youth of Saint John Vianney, by Rev. Michael DeSaye](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-childhood-and-youth-of-saint-john-vianney-by-rev-michael-desaye)

_2026-08-11 · Roman Catholic Media_

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## [Sermon: Wonders of the Curé of Ars, by Most Rev. Germán Fliess](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-wonders-of-the-cur-of-ars-by-most-rev-germn-fliess)

_2026-08-11 · Roman Catholic Media_

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## [7-ST 08-09-2026AM - What We Do When We Meet Together, part 2](http://www.tbcpdx.org/audio/2026-08-09AM_07-ST.mp3)

_2026-08-09 · Trinity Bible Church Sunday AM Messages_

7-ST 08-09-2026AM - Series: TBC New Member Welcome - Title: What We Do When We Meet Together, part 2 - Scripture: Selected Scriptures

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## James - Undivided Faith - Week 11

_2026-08-09 · Covenant Church Willis_

Welcome! We are so excited you are joining us today! Head on over to any of the links below for more information about what is happening here at Covenant. \*New visitors, please fill out our Connect Card! \*Submit form for Prayer, Share, & Care HERE \*Check out our Sermon Notes & Archives \*Visit our Website!

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## [Sermon: Pentecost XI - Be Thou Opened, by Rev. Philip Eldracher](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-pentecost-xi-be-thou-opened-by-rev-philip-eldracher)

_2026-08-09 · Roman Catholic Media_

Given on the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, 2026.

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## [The Apologist Who Believed Too Much](https://garrettham.com/justin-martyr-first-apology-conversion/)

_2026-08-07 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

A sophomore apologetics assignment on Justin Martyr's First Apology cost me the church I was raised in. What chapter 66 says about the Eucharist.

## [6-ST 08-02-2026AM - What We Do When We Meet Together, part 1](http://www.tbcpdx.org/audio/2026-08-02AM_06-ST.mp3)

_2026-08-02 · Trinity Bible Church Sunday AM Messages_

6-ST 08-02-2026AM - Series: TBC New Member Welcome - Title: What We Do When We Meet Together, part 1 - Scripture: Acts 2:41-47

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## James - Undivided Faith - Week 10

_2026-08-02 · Covenant Church Willis_

Welcome! Happy Father's Day! We are so excited you are joining us today! Head on over to any of the links below for more information about what is happening here at Covenant. \*New visitors, please fill out our Connect Card! \*Submit form for Prayer, Share, & Care HERE \*Check out our Sermon Notes & Archives \*Visit our Website!

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## [Sermon: Pentecost X - On Pride, by Rev. Philip Eldracher](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-pentecost-x-on-pride-by-rev-philip-eldracher)

_2026-08-02 · Roman Catholic Media_

Given on the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, 2026, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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## [Sermon: St. Anne - The Christian Mother, by Rev. Philip Eldracher](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-st-anne-the-christian-mother-by-rev-philip-eldracher)

_2026-07-27 · Roman Catholic Media_

Given on the feast of St. Anne, occurring on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, 2026.

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## [Matthew 13:44–52: The Hidden Treasure, the Pearl, and the Scribe’s New and Old](https://garrettham.com/matthew-13-44-52-hidden-treasure-pearl/)

_2026-07-27 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

A Catholic exegesis of Matthew 13:44–52: the hidden treasure, the pearl of great price, the dragnet, and the scribe who brings out the new and the old.

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## [5-ST 07-26-2026AM - Our Raison d'être](http://www.tbcpdx.org/audio/2026-07-26AM_05-ST.mp3)

_2026-07-26 · Trinity Bible Church Sunday AM Messages_

5-ST 07-26-2026AM - Series: TBC New Member Welcome - Title: Our Raison d'être - Scripture: I Peter 2:4-10

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## [+++Trinity 8 July 26 AD 2026+++](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RevDeal/episodes/Trinity-8-July-26-AD-2026-e3miscl)

_2026-07-26 · Jacob Deal · RevDeal_

Jeremiah 23:16–29 / Romans 8:12–17 / Matthew 7:15–23

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## Planting in Grace Produces Peace

_2026-07-26 · Covenant Church Willis_

Welcome! We are so excited you are joining us today! Head on over to any of the links below for more information about what is happening here at Covenant. \*New visitors, please fill out our Connect Card! \*Submit form for Prayer, Share, & Care HERE \*Check out our Sermon Notes & Archives \*Visit our Website!

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## [The Didache — Old Enough for the Canon, and Still Left Out](https://garrettham.com/didache/)

_2026-07-24 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

The Didache may be older than the last books of the New Testament, yet no Bible ever carried it. What the earliest church order says, and why it was left out.

## [The Case Against John MacArthur: A Critical Assessment](https://garrettham.com/john-macarthur-critical-assessment/)

_2026-07-24 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

A former evangelical's comprehensive assessment of John MacArthur: the scholarship claimed for him, his documented exegetical errors, and his record.

## [The Epistle of Barnabas — The Near-Miss That Bore an Apostle's Name](https://garrettham.com/epistle-of-barnabas/)

_2026-07-23 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Quoted as Scripture in Alexandria and bound into Codex Sinaiticus, the Epistle of Barnabas bore an apostle's name—yet the New Testament closed without it. Why.

## [+++ Trinity 7 July 19 AD 2026 +++](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RevDeal/episodes/Trinity-7-July-19-AD-2026-e3mdmae)

_2026-07-22 · Jacob Deal · RevDeal_

Isaiah 62:6–12\* / Romans 6:19–23 / Mark 8:1–9

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## [1 Clement — The Letter from Rome That Almost Entered the New Testament](https://garrettham.com/1-clement/)

_2026-07-22 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

1 Clement was read as Scripture at Corinth and bound into Codex Alexandrinus. How the letter came so close to the New Testament, and why the Church left it out.

## [Matthew 13:24–43: The Weeds, the Mustard Seed, and a Field Left to Grow](https://garrettham.com/matthew-13-24-43-parable-of-the-weeds/)

_2026-07-20 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

A Catholic exegesis of Matthew 13:24–43: the parables of the weeds, mustard seed, and leaven, the Psalm 78 citation, and Augustine’s corpus permixtum.

## [Sermon: Pentecost VIII - When Your Time Is Up, by Rev. Philip Eldracher](https://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-pentecost-viii-when-your-time-is-up-by-rev-philip-eldracher)

_2026-07-19 · Roman Catholic Media_

Given on the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, 2026.

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## [4-ST 07-19-2026AM - More Doctrine](http://www.tbcpdx.org/audio/2026-07-19AM_04-ST.mp3)

_2026-07-19 · Trinity Bible Church Sunday AM Messages_

4-ST 07-19-2026AM - Series: TBC New Member Welcome - Title: More Doctrine - Scripture: Selected Scriptures

[Listen](http://www.tbcpdx.org/audio/2026-07-19AM_04-ST.mp3)

## Life in Redemptive Community

_2026-07-19 · Covenant Church Willis_

Welcome! We are so excited you are joining us today! Head on over to any of the links below for more information about what is happening here at Covenant. \*New visitors, please fill out our Connect Card! \*Submit form for Prayer, Share, & Care HERE \*Check out our Sermon Notes & Archives \*Visit our Website!

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## [Pope Saint Marcellinus: The Twenty-Ninth Pope, the Lapse Rome Tried to Forget, and the Council That Never Met](https://garrettham.com/saint-marcellinus-twenty-ninth-pope/)

_2026-07-19 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Marcellinus, the twenty-ninth pope (296–304), was accused of sacrificing to idols, erased from Rome's oldest calendars, and defended by a council that never met.

## [Pope Saint Marcellus I: The Thirtieth Pope, the Broken Church He Rebuilt, and the Mercy That Got Him Exiled](https://garrettham.com/saint-marcellus-i-thirtieth-pope/)

_2026-07-19 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Marcellus I, the thirtieth pope (308–309), rebuilt Rome's Church after the Great Persecution and was exiled by Maxentius for making the lapsed do penance.

## [Pope Saint Miltiades: The Thirty-Second Pope, the Emperor's Peace, and the Schism It Could Not Heal](https://garrettham.com/saint-miltiades-thirty-second-pope/)

_2026-07-19 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Miltiades, the thirty-second pope (311–314), lived from the last persecution into Constantine's peace, received the Lateran, and judged the first Donatist trial.

## [Pope Saint Caius: The Twenty-Eighth Pope, the Ladder of Holy Orders, and the Emperor's Kinsman](https://garrettham.com/saint-caius-twenty-eighth-pope/)

_2026-07-18 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Caius, or Gaius, the twenty-eighth pope (283–296), governed in the long peace before Diocletian's storm—a confessor, not a martyr, whose gravestone survives.

## [Pope Saint Eusebius: The Thirty-First Pope, the Schism Over the Lapsed, and the Enemy Exiled Beside Him](https://garrettham.com/saint-eusebius-thirty-first-pope/)

_2026-07-18 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Eusebius, the thirty-first pope (309 or 310), reigned four months before the emperor Maxentius exiled him—and his rival Heraclius—over the fate of the lapsed.

## [Pope Saint Eutychian: The Twenty-Seventh Pope, the Reign No One Can Measure, and the Stone That Tells the Truth](https://garrettham.com/saint-eutychian-twenty-seventh-pope/)

_2026-07-18 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Eutychian, the twenty-seventh pope (275–283): a reign Eusebius counts in months and Rome in years, legends of beans and buried martyrs, and one true stone.

## [1 John — “God Is Love,” the Antichrists, and the Verse That Was Never There](https://garrettham.com/1-john/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

The First Letter of John gives us “God is love,” the antichrists, and the Bible’s most famous fake verse. A Catholic reads 1 John and its road into the canon.

## [The Letter to Philemon — A Runaway Slave, the Shortest Letter Paul Wrote, and Scripture's Quiet Case Against Slavery](https://garrettham.com/philemon/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

The Letter to Philemon: Paul, the runaway slave Onesimus, and 'no longer a slave but a brother.' A Catholic look at slavery, Paul's shortest letter, and canon.

## [Pope Saint Anterus: The Nineteenth Pope, a Forty-Day Reign, and the Greek Tombstone That Outlived His Legend](https://garrettham.com/saint-anterus-nineteenth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Anterus is the nineteenth pope (235–236): a forty-day reign, probably the first pope laid in the Crypt of the Popes, and a broken Greek epitaph that calls him bishop, not martyr.

## [Pope Saint Callixtus I: The Sixteenth Pope, the Slave Who Wore the Keys, and the Scandal of Mercy](https://garrettham.com/saint-callixtus-i-sixteenth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Callixtus I is the sixteenth pope (c. 217–222): a former slave, convict, and cemetery administrator whose policy of readmitting grave sinners after penance scandalized the rigorists—and won.

## [Pope Saint Cornelius: The Twenty-First Pope, the Antipope Novatian, and the Church's Power to Forgive](https://garrettham.com/saint-cornelius-twenty-first-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Cornelius, the twenty-first pope (251–253), faced the rigorist antipope Novatian—and staked the Church's authority on its power to forgive the lapsed after penance.

## [Pope Saint Dionysius: The Twenty-Fifth Pope, the Two Dionysii, and the Trinity Before Nicaea](https://garrettham.com/saint-dionysius-twenty-fifth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Dionysius, the twenty-fifth pope (259–268): the first pope not venerated as a martyr, who rebuilt Rome after persecution and defined the Trinity before Nicaea.

## [Pope Saint Eleutherius: The Thirteenth Pope, the Martyrs of Lyons, and the Legend of a British King](https://garrettham.com/saint-eleutherius-thirteenth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Eleutherius is the thirteenth pope (c. 175–189)—the deacon who became pope, correspondent of the martyrs of Lyons, and the pope a medieval legend made converter of Britain.

## [Pope Saint Fabian: The Twentieth Pope, the Dove That Chose Him, and the Martyrdom Carved in Stone](https://garrettham.com/saint-fabian-twentieth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Fabian is the twentieth pope (236–250): a layman chosen when a dove settled on his head, the organizer of Christian Rome, and the first pope whose martyrdom is documented history.

## [Pope Saint Felix I: The Twenty-Sixth Pope, the Martyrdom He Never Suffered, and the Letter He Never Wrote](https://garrettham.com/saint-felix-i-twenty-sixth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Felix I is the twenty-sixth pope (269–274): a martyr's crown he never earned and a famous letter on Christ he never wrote—both forgeries over one solid fact.

## [Pope Saint Lucius I: The Twenty-Second Pope, the Eight-Month Reign, and the Confessor the Church Mistook for a Martyr](https://garrettham.com/saint-lucius-i-twenty-second-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Lucius I is the twenty-second pope (253–254): an eight-month reign spent partly in exile, and a confessor the oldest Roman calendar declines to call a martyr.

## [Pope Saint Pontian: The Eighteenth Pope, the First to Abdicate, and the Reconciliation in the Mines](https://garrettham.com/saint-pontian-eighteenth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Pontian is the eighteenth pope (230–235): the first pope to abdicate, exiled with Hippolytus to the mines of Sardinia—where pope and antipope were reconciled.

## [Pope Saint Sixtus II: The Twenty-Fourth Pope, the Peacemaker, and the Martyrdom Rome Wrote Down](https://garrettham.com/saint-sixtus-ii-twenty-fourth-pope/)

_2026-07-17 · Garrett Ham — Faith. Service. Law._

Sixtus II, the twenty-fourth pope (257–258): the peacemaker who healed the rebaptism schism, then died under Valerian's sword—a martyrdom Rome wrote down.