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2023/05/28

And they’re off!

I have been rethinking Pentecost. It is almost never a bad thing to re-think what we know well. The things we know well, or at least think we know well, never get rethought, which can be too bad. Perhaps you thought the same way about Pentecost as I did. “Indoor wind, tongues of fire (whatever […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / church beginning, Pentecost, preaching, race Leave a Comment

2022/11/06

Don’t worry

Today is Remembrance Sunday. I know it is quite a few days before November 11 but I think it is important to have the Sunday devoted to Remembrance Day before the actual day rather than after. The sermon isn’t as specific to Remembrance Day as some I have preached but there are still some tie-ins, […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / eschatology, preaching, Remembrance Sunday, worry Leave a Comment

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

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