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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2018/05/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

Not just tongues of fire

 Pentecost is more than tongues of fire and the colour red. Pentecost is the time we have set aside to pay attention to the new way the Holy Spirit decided to interact with people. Many of us can picture the scene, a wind inside a closed house, tongues of fire on people’s heads, people being […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: advocate, holy spirit, Jesus, Joh, paraclete, Paraclete Sayings, Pentecost, preaching

2014/01/12 By Barry Leave a Comment

Favouritism? Partiality? Nope, not here.

Favouritism, partiality, no matter what you call it, NO ONE likes it. Even when the deck is stacked in our favour there is still a little something that we don’t like about it. When someone else gets ahead because of favouritism being directed to them then there isn’t a little something we don’t like about […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: advocate, Baptism of the Lord, favouritism, partiality, preaching, understand, understanding

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