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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2022/10/30

Why do we want to know?

We humans seem to have some sort of built-in compulsion to know “why?” As someone once commented, “we want to know why, and we want to know why we want to know why, even though we never will” as what it means to be human. There is a subset of spiritually aware people who want […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / called, calling, in or out?, Jesus, preaching, Zacchaeus Leave a Comment

2022/10/23

Which one am I?

I don’t like binaries and the sermon title for this Sunday is deliberately chosen to highlight binaries . . . so I can redefine these two as ends of a continuum. The primary text for the sermon is Luke 18:9-14, a passage frequently called the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. It is […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / continuum, Jesus, parable, pharisee, preaching, tax collector Leave a Comment

2022/10/16

Scripture . . .

Scripture. Holy Writ. The Bible. What do we do with it? I am sure even asking the question, “What do we do with Scripture?” makes some people uncomfortable. The goal isn’t to make anyone feel uncomfortable but to ask the question and mean it! What do we do with Scripture? Do we take every word […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / biblical studies, hermeneutics, interpretation, preaching, scripture Leave a Comment

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