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Faces of Our Faith: Eutychus | Acts 20:1-12 | 8.16.26

Faces of Our Faith: Eutychus | Acts 20:1-12 | 8.16.2618 aug26 min

It’s the first day of the week, the lamps are burning, and Paul is talking past midnight because he’s leaving in the morning. Up in the window, a young man named Eutychus loses his fight against sleep — and falls three stories to his death. Drawing on Paul Tillich’s theology of miracle, this sermon asks us to reconsider what we mean by “miraculous,” and suggests that sometimes it isn’t a spoon-bending spectacle but simply the world working the way it was always supposed to: bread that’s enoug...