Dean Willis Sermon, Atlanta Cathedral - 8.45am Sunday, 25th February, 2024

[@maureensurdez7841]

Glad to hear this blessing. Thank you from Florida, USA🎉

[@Waitakeredame]

I used to go to the wonderful garden (in the old days) simply for the garden itself. Yes, the Dean drew me in too but it was the garden, and all the love so obviously poured into it which spoke to me. It was a long time before I realised the gardener was called Fletcher but I blessed him every day for his peaceful environment, his superb camerwork (I stole some of the flower close ups :-)) and his obvious care for this gentle place. It's said that one is nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth' and Fletcher made this possible for me. I live in New Zealand but was born and brought up in England so it was also a little like coming home. My mother taught me the names of wildflowers, and though we never had a garden, she also had an Auntie living in rural Yorkshire from whom I learned much more. Dear Fletcher, you brought me so many happy memeories of this time, thank you so very much. Nga mihi nui ki a koe e hoa.

[@judyvispi]

So Good To See Dean Willis . I hardly ever missed an episode of His Morning Prayer. From Cantabury, in U.k. During our Covid Duration. I Have saved Many of These Episodes & Prayer. I am So Happy ToSee Him Well, May God Bless Him, He is so Inspirational.🙏😇

[@lucjagrabowska2726]

Such a deep pleasure, always, to hear Dean Robert; such a musical, lofty, poetic use of language!

[@ingridomarde1041]

Such a great teacher. His Garden discourses were so refreshing

[@1sweffling]

How wonderful to see and hear Dean Robert again. His loving face and words of erudition and wisdom bring me great comfort and joy. It was his services in the garden during the pandemic which brought me back to the Church. I owe him so much and miss him so much. Thank you for posting this.

[@rbrown6476]

I still watch those Morning Worship programmes on KZbin, one on every day but just from two years ago. And when I get to the point where he retires, I’ll go back to the first one again. I can’t imagine a day without them now, so I’ll probably be watching these till I get to Heaven! 😊 Such a blessing and so much to learn every day. ❤

[@1sweffling]

@6476 Absolutely:) I adored his interaction with the animals and keep meaning to go back and rewatch, like you are doing, this time taking notes!! PS Have you found Dean Kate Moorehead on youtube? She records a short reading, talk and prayer each day at the rising of the sun and, although not the same as the garden congregation, she is wise and lovely and often joined by her cat.

[@Fabwrite]

How wonderful to see and hear Dean Robert again!! Beautiful sermon as always! Please keep posting videos of Dean Robert’s sermons whenever you can 😊

[@mspocahontas46]

What a wonderful gift to see Dean Robert Willis giving a sermon again!! I miss his wisdom and inspiration so very much. ❤

[@PatRoyle]

I am so happy to listen to Dean Robert today. Thank you Fletcher for posting.

[@elizabethtallman3280]

Greetings from Arkansas! So good to hear a sermon from Dean Robert. I still participate in Morning Prayer with the Dean every day, it is the first thing I do each day and I am still learning so much!

[@rbrown6476]

Me too! No day is complete without my meeting with Morning Prayer. Blessings for Dean Robert for all the blessings he brings us, fresh every day, from God. ❤

[@yvonnefarrell1029]

Amen to that; same here, as soon as I get to the local library, cause I no longer have internet at home but yes that two years, two months of Morning Prayer is a library of scriptural meditation, isn't it? What a blessing, in these dark times.

[@blessings4381]

Wonderful sermon. A blessing to see and hear your thought provoking words. Thank you, Dean Robert and Fletcher for posting this.

[@uwchlaw]

Greetings from LLANELLI South West WALES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Thank you dear Robert and Fletcher . Keep safe 🙏

[@rosaliebuchanan7725]

So good to be listening to you during this season. Try to catch you sermons, whenever they appear. Miss the Garden Congegation

[@johnanderson3700]

Always so wonderful to hear Dean Willis

[@PedroMPereira]

Always a blessing to listen to Dean Robert 😊

[@sisterpamop]

Praise be to God for this soulful message. As a long-time member of the Garden Congregation, I humbly ask my fellow Disciples of Christ to pray for my healing from chronic illness that limits my ability to participate fully in the Kingdom of God.

[@jeangerow7177]

My heart lifts every time a video is added to the Garden Congregation channel. I begin each day with Morning Prayer :)

[@cheleatsiu5438]

Thank you so much for sharing this with us! It's a joy to listen to DR! From Illinois, near Chicago.

[@AlbertFeixIII]

Thank you for your ministry as I seek my vocation. I am without a church in the wilderness (Mojave Desert.) Your teachings have strengthened much. God Bless

[@hilaryajm1]

Such a blessing to have this access, to our wonderful Dean Willis! Thank you from New Zealand. The Garden congregation has missed its Gardener.

[@carolethompson7818]

Amen!!

[@kimhuff8912]

Good morning! What a wonderful way to begin my day! Your message today was full of so many insights, but I was struck with how God comes to us, quite unexpectedly and at any stage of life, to lead us into what looks to us as an impossible call. Sending love and blessings to you and Fletcher. Kim & Chris

[@BpGregor]

From the Philippines. I too enjoyed hearing Dean Robert speak. His sermons are always good and full of teaching. I miss his morning prayers with the cats and on Saturdays (Saturday for me) with the other farm animals of Canterbury. Thank you Father Robert.

[@angelawall3822]

Dear Father Willis ,how wonderful to see you!🦋

[@sonifranc3551]

❤❤❤ Lovey to see you , dear Dean Robert.

[@fennecbesixdouze1794]

The word rendered "immediately" in Mark as Dean Robert mentioned is euthus, which can be translated "straightforwardly, without complication" and is cognate with "euthys", meaning "straight, without curves". Mark echoes the term in the Greek with his prologue with John the Baptist, "make straight (εὐθείας) the way of the Lord". I get the impression reading the Greek that Mark is trying to render the Gospel story not just with urgency and haste, but maybe (and this escapes the translations) also straightforwardly and without complication. Although when compared side-by-side with the synoptic material in Matthew and Luke, it is worth noting Mark's phrasing is always more wordy or more detailed. Mark will give us the detail, for example, that Jesus was sleeping on the Peter's boat "on a cushion". Mark is shortest because fewer pericopes are included, not because the sentences are shorter. Indeed, as to Mark's redundancy: one of the now-discarded arguments for Marcan priority (and the two-source hypothesis) is that Luke and Matthew must have been copying from Mark and trying to edit down his redundancies and excessively detailed language, to fit in their longer narratives. The same evidence can be used to support another argument, the Griesbach hypothesis (two-gospel hypothesis), that Mark must have been conflating together Matthew and Luke, ending up with many redundancies from conflation (ergo, a theory of Marcan posteriority). The two-source hypothesis is now under heavy attack in the academy, I wonder if even the hypothesis of Marcan priority is ripe for overturning as a scholarly consensus as well.

[@drewk3402]

I have one prayer, Dean Robert and Fletcher: I wish it were possible to attend in-person one of Dean Robert’s visits here in the U.S. Unfortunately I only find out about where he has been after the fact. It would be wonderful if the Garden Congregation could be told in advance of where Dean Robert will be speaking!!

[@judybeck8313]

If you click on Community in this Garden Congregation KZbin Channel and look at the past messages sent by Dean Robert and Fletcher, you will be able to find their schedule. Blessings to you.

[@TomG1555]

Over at the Cathedral's YT page, here's links to Rev. Willis' other sermon - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqnNn4yFo9OnrKs - and Dean's Forum talk: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3PJfKeIiLpqgpI

[@MrNigara]

But..... how much more beautiful would be the earth without people talking from a pulpit, and priests telling us what should we do. Let's hail a future world without all this bunch, gang of illuminated people.