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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/10/04 By Barry Leave a Comment

Confident in what?

Confidence is an interesting thing. We need to have confidence in ourselves and in our institutions. Governments, especially minority governments, need to have the confidence of the house. When people lose confidence in banks, bad things happen and “confidence men [sic]” might trick us out of our money. So is confidence good or bad? Well, […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: confidence, confident, Paul, Philippians, preaching, St. Paul

2020/09/27 By Barry Leave a Comment

Sons, vineyards, and Presbyterians Sharing

This Sunday is Presbyterians Sharing Sunday and it is a Sunday set aside to remember we are part of something larger than our individual Presbyterian congregations. If you are reading this and are not a Presbyterian but a member/adherent/attender in another denomination I am sure everything will be perfectly familiar to you, if under a […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: giving, ministry, parable, preaching, Presbyterians Sharing, sons, vineyard

2020/09/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

An annoying story

I know, I know . . . I even say it in the sermon, we really aren’t “allowed” to be annoyed or irritated by stories in the Bible. But c’mon, the story about the landowner with the vineyard and his HR practices can be really annoying. There is something in Jesus’ story in Matthew 20 […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: annoyance, fair, fairness, gifts, grace, irritation, justice, landowner, parable, preaching, vineyard, work

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