On Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
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It is a common approach to preaching to begin the sermon with a joke. Share something of humor, the thinking goes, to break down the wall between preacher and listeners. And there is biblical precedence for doing so. Saint Peter, in really what is the first Christian sermon, on the Day of Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Ghost to the 120 apostles and all Jerusalem, apparently fairly early in the day, got up, grabbed the mic, and in response to criticisms he heard from the crowd, that the disciples, apparently…
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