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Happy new year!
ByBarryYes, you read the title correctly, Happy new year! It is a new church year. The Lectionary year begins with the first Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Hope. This year I was reminded, as I did some reading of Walter Brueggemann, of the both/and nature of Advent. We are “in between” the two Advents…
May 23, 2021 Day of Pentecost
ByBarryScripture (click any reference to be taken to the text) Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Acts 2:1-21 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Hymns Spirit of God, descend upon my heart Breathe on me, breath of God O Spirit of the living God Guide me, O thou great Redeemer Sermon Where it all started
What do we see?
ByBarryThere can be a tension between seeing and really seeing, much like the tension between hearing and listening. This tension came up when I began thinking of the Transfiguration. When the disciples who were on that mountain with Jesus witnessed the Transfiguration they saw Jesus in a new light but what crossed my mind was, could they…
Baptized, but why?
ByBarryThe Baptism of the Lord Sunday is one of the recurring Sundays in the church year. I don’t mind recurring Sundays. I feel there is real value in looking again at something familiar . . . but actually looking at it. Regardless of all that I was wondering what I was going to say about…
It all goes back to love
ByBarryWe sometimes lose sight of how important love really is. We are coming up on Valentine’s Day but I’m not thinking only of romantic love. I don’t have anything against romantic love, I think it is great, but our New Testament text, 1 Corinthians 13, talks about a love that includes romantic love but is…
We’re children of God?
ByBarryI missed an opportunity in this Sunday’s sermon to make a joke or two about us being childish but in retrospect I don’t think the sermon was diminished by the lack. It is a bit odd for us to think about ourselves as children though, at least once we make it into adulthood. Particularly when…