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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/02/23 By Barry 2 Comments

Let’s talk mountains and mountaintops

 Mountaintop experiences . . . everyone has had them. Some people have even had them on the top of physical mountains. I’m not one of those people. I have never been on top of a mountain, I’ve barely been on the top of a hill. But I have had “mountaintop” experiences. “Mountaintop experiences” are the […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: change, mountaintop, mountaintop experience, moutain, preaching, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Sunday, transformation

2020/02/16 By Barry Leave a Comment

More than law

 Today was Heritage Sunday in the Presbyterian Church in Canada. I don’t always “do” anything with Sundays outside of the Liturgical year but this one had an interesting tie-in with the Gospel lesson for today. I don’t know if anyone else sees it, but I saw a connection between the Law that Jesus addresses in […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: heritage, Matthew, preaching, Sermon on the Mount

2020/02/09 By Barry Leave a Comment

Not that kind of influencer

 Of all the strange things the internet has thrown up one of the strangest to me is the “influencer.” As far as I understand it, this is a person who gets paid to take pictures and videos of themselves using a product and then posting those pictures and videos on social media. There are lots […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: influence, influencer, Matthew, preaching, Sermon on the Mount

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