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Aug 2009
15m 36s

You Gotta Serve Somebody

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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The Book of Joshua provokes us to consider one of the most important questions of the spiritual life- whom will you serve? Will it be the Lord or some other concern? Making something finite the ultimate concern of one's life is a grave spiritual predicament. Only is the Lord is ultimate and it is only when we recognize this truth that the other concerns of o ... Show More
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