Today is St. Patrick’s Day and it will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me or reads this blog to be told I did not preach about St. Patrick at all and, in fact, did not mention him or the day at all. I don’t have anything against St. Patrick nor his “day” […]
Not another list
We love lists. We love to see where we fit when we have answered a list of questions. Bring these two things together and we might have a problem with Colossians 3:1-11, the epistle lesson for today. Paul provides a list of behaviours that we should not engage in and there is an all too […]
One law is enough
This Sunday we talked about laws and law. There is something fundamentally human about the need to make laws or rules and something equally fundamentally human about trying to circumvent those laws or rules. I wonder if this second tendency is the source of Paul’s observation in Romans 5:20 “But law came in, with the […]