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2023/07/23

Of course, we’re children! But whose?

Being a child is a universal experience. For most of us, who our parent is or parents are is pretty straightforward. It is interesting to see people who know our parent(s) pick us out as their child. We sometimes have physical similarities, similar ways of talking, moving, or other things “shared” with our parents. The […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / child, children, preaching, resemblance, similar Leave a Comment

2022/09/04

Do you want to talk about cost or choice?

There is something a little different about this Sunday’s sermons, they are entirely different from each other. I know some of you may be saying, “I’ve listened to your same-day-different-congregation-sermon-pairs before and they are sometimes quite different. This time they are different because the Knox sermon comes from Deuteronomy and St. Mark’s sermon comes from […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / children, choice, cost, impromptu, preaching Leave a Comment

2020/12/27

We are all in the family

Merry Christmas! We are all in the family, the same family. Our New Testament lesson for today makes it very clear, “God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.” (Galatians 4:4b-5 NRSV) This […]

Article by Barry / Christmas, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / adopted, adoption, children, family, preaching, siblings Leave a Comment

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