This Sunday, June 26, is the Third Sunday after Pentecost.
This week’s sermon is Plough Ahead! and it will be presented by Rev. Dr. David Zachrich.
This week’s readings are:
A Weekly Word: Turkish Delight
Edmund – 3rd Child
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Not very nice.
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Sarcastic with Peter and Susan.
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Interchange with the Professor that they believe
Edmund would lie.
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Torments Lucy – especially about the Narnia.
The Next Rainy Day
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Hide and Seek
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Lucy is starting to doubt.
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Decides to check the wardrobe as she seeks a
hiding place.
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Edmund sees her hide and decides to join her to
torment her.
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They enter Narnia – but separately.
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Lucy to Tumnus’s
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Edmund meets the Queen
Edmund out in the cold, the Queens sledge comes by.
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Beautiful, proud and stern
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Devil masquerades as an angel of light.
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Appearance is deceiving
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The devil lies.
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At first she is harsh, but then changes
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Manipulates Edmund with kindness, promises and
food
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Turkish Delight and Hot Chocolate
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Disgusting!
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Sometimes we are tempted through physical
pleasures.
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Temptation consumes and we desire more and more.
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She feeds his jealousy and cruelty after she
learns that there are four children.
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He will be a prince, far more clever, the others
a duke and duchesses.
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She urges him to lie to his siblings.
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Edmund betrays Tumnus.
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Edmund reveals there are 2 Sons of Adam and 2
Daughters of Eve
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We have still not been told the significance of
that information.
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Notice the Biblical Creation Identity.
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Children of Adam and Eve
Edmund aligns himself with the Witch.
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Genesis 3 – enmity
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Bound Will
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He is an example of the depth of sin – and it
will get worse.
Edmund and Lucy return and he lies about Narnia.
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