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Cycle A First Lesson Sermons for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
As long as men and women and boys and girls have inhabited this planet, they have sought to control their lives in whatever ways possible.
In order to have a better harvest, they have experimented with different crops, different fertilizers, and different methods of planting. In order to kill more game for food, they created more and more advanced kinds of bows, more accurate arrows, more deadly traps. In order to protect themselves from neighboring tribes they produced walls and moats and castles, and better weapons.