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To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up! Sermon by lay speaker Bill Peche -  Bradford Community Church UU - Kenosha, WI - 2/13/2011           When I was a boy in the early 1960’s, I enjoyed watching a game show on television called “To Tell the Truth.”  You can still see some of the episodes on YouTube today.  Some of you may remember it; others here are too young to have seen it.           Wikipedia gives a good synopsis of the show: Three challengers are introduced, all claiming to be the central character. The announcer typically asks the challengers, who stand side by side, "What is your name, please?" Each challenger then states, "My name is [so-and-so]." The celebrity panelists then read along as the host, Bud Collyer, reads aloud a signed affidavit about the central character.           The panelists ...
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Selfishness or Selflessness?

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Selfishness or Selflessness? (Lay sermon by Bill Peche - Bradford Community Church UU, Kenosha WI - December 7, 2014)         During the week of Thanksgiving, Tom’s 94-year-old mother, Annamae, came to stay with us in Kenosha at Tom’s home. She, like many people her age, has her share of aches and pains, and while she was visiting us, I had to take her to the emergency room 2 weeks ago today due to a pain in her arm that she said was like having sciatic pain between her elbow and shoulder. Thank goodness her pain was relieved a day later after receiving a cortisone shot.         Annamae is not like most of her peers, however, in that she is very mentally alert. I gave her an Android tablet as an early birthday and Christmas gift a month or so ago, and during Thanksgiving week I got to teach her more about using it. She has even said that it is “fun!”         Annamae is ...
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