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Thom Fiet

The Passion of AI

As significant as the discovery of the wheel.   Some experts are appraising the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this way. It is a technological

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A Eulogy

We welcome Thom Fiet to The Twelve today. Thom is pastor of Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook, New York. This is a eulogy Thom

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Do You Want to Be Healed?

“Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda,

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The Seventh Sunday of Easter

John 17.20-26 by Thom Fiet Luther thought the Jews would come around and become Christians. He thought once clarity was achieved in terms of understanding

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter

John 5.1-9 by Thom Fiet The scriptures are full of haymaker questions. The first question in the Bible is from the mouth of the Lounge

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The Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 13.31-35 by Thom Fiet The passage for this fifth Sunday has Jesus announcing to his disciples that they will soon be leaderless. It’s every

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The Third Sunday of Easter

John 21.1-19 by Thom Fiet I have friends like Jesus. I am a bad fly fisherman who fishes with great fly fishermen—one who demands that

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Eulogy

FEBRUARY 2012: INSIDE OUT by Thom Fiet “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 Trudy Brower prayed for us

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Vortices

Today we welcome a guest blogger to The Twelve. Thom Fiet is pastor with the Pleasant Plains Presbyterian Church, found in God’s Hudson Valley. Thanks, Thom! At what

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Amid the Swelter of Chaos

Thom Fiet A woman stared at her portrait, still shimmering new from the hand of the master, Pablo Picasso. Before her, imprisoned in the frame,

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Full House

Good morning passengers; a service of Christian, Protestant worship will begin in twenty minutes in Sojourners’ chapel. The invitation echoed down each elevated concourse, every

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Witchelder

It did seem odd bringing a witch to a denominational meeting. Not as odd as having Jo serving as an Elder in our church, but

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Preaching Tips

“We are sorry for the loss of your friend, and his courageous battle against cancer; but it is not interesting.” I heard these words from

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Grandpa’s Prisons

My father called me the other day, with all the excitement of a boy who had bagged his first rabbit. He informed me that he

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Prostrate Cancer

At what point do you correct a parishioner about his insistence that he has prostrate cancer?  How do you break the good news to him

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Two Funerals

The traction control moans when I turn onto the grey lane, covered in sleet. My car, an unexpected gift from my mother-in-law, is referred to

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