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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2022/10/30

Why do we want to know?

We humans seem to have some sort of built-in compulsion to know “why?” As someone once commented, “we want to know why, and we want to know why we want to know why, even though we never will” as what it means to be human. There is a subset of spiritually aware people who want […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / called, calling, in or out?, Jesus, preaching, Zacchaeus Leave a Comment

2019/02/10

Called?

This Sunday’s texts are linked together, at least somewhat, by three different stories about what it means to be called, or more properly, “called.” This is more than getting a phone call or a text to come over and hang out. The calls we looked at today are the calls God makes to people. There […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / call, called, calling, fishers of people, Isaiah, Paul, Peter, preaching, Simon Peter Leave a Comment

2018/01/21

Not really about fish

 It is virtually impossible to have the book of Jonah show up in the Lectionary and not think of fish. It is even more difficult to get away from fish when the Gospel lesson involves Jesus calling some of his followers away from their vocation as people who fished for a living. However, neither of […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Uncategorized, Year B / Andrew, called, calling, disciples, fish, James, Jesus, John, Jonah, not fish, preaching, Simon, uncertainty Leave a Comment

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