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2017/10/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

If it belongs to the emperor then give it to emperor

 This Sunday we looked at one of the more well known stories in the Gospels. Jesus is asked a leading, and potentially quite dangerous question, about taxes. There is a lot going on behind that question. The Pharisees and Herodians actually got together to try and come up with something that would neutralize or remove […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Caesar, citizen, citizenship, civil society, emperor, gospel, Jesus, Matthew, Matthew 22.15-22, preaching, society, tax, taxes

2017/10/15 By Barry Leave a Comment

Sometimes it is hard to rejoice

 As I was reading the Lectionary texts for this week I was struck by the Old Testament lesson. Exodus 32 begins with the story of the golden calf, where the people of God give up and turn to an idol. What struck me was how demoralizing that story is. I even wrote it down, “The […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Year A Tagged With: Exodus, golden calf, idol, Philippians, preaching, rejoice, think, think better, think on these things

2017/10/08 By Barry Leave a Comment

Giving thanks

 This Sunday was Thanksgiving Sunday in Canada. As I have mentioned here, and in a sermon or two, I tend to pay little or no attention to the non-church calendar and instead focus on the church (or liturgical) calendar. This Sunday I ended up preaching about thankfulness, the sermon title was the question, “What are […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: external, goal, internal, Paul, preaching, thankfulness, thanksgiving

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