I want to share some particularly poignant excerpts from a sermon by the 4th century Church Father of Cappadocia (in Asia Minor, modern day Turkey), Gregory of Nazianzus. This is my own translation/paraphrase from the Greek (yeah, I’m just showing off really), from Gregory’s Easter oration (sermon) 1.3-5. “Yesterday the lamb was slaughtered; the doorposts anointed. … More God’s Big Story and Really Old Sermons