Day: March 1, 2009

The Rev’d David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, preached this sermon at Holy Communion for the First Sunday in Lent, based on Hebrews 5:8.

“Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.”

Learning through suffering was an ancient maxim of the Greeks most wonderfully illustrated in the story of Odysseus. Many in modern times have been graduates, too, of that proverbial school of hard knocks. Necessity can be one heck of a teacher.

But what is it that is learned through ancient suffering and the contemporary school of hard knocks? What are the lessons? (more…)

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