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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2018/03/04

The Ten Commandments revisited

It has been a long time since I spent any real time thinking about the Ten Commandments. I’m not indifferent to them or anything like that, they just haven’t come up lately. I was doing some reading about the Lectionary texts, an act which I have noticed is becoming more common this year, and something […]

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2017/10/29

Still more questions

This section of Matthew is filled with questions. As I think I mentioned last week, these are a particular kind of question, the “gotcha” kind. In Matthew 22.15-46 Jesus deals with: a combined question about taxes from the Pharisees and Herodians, a question about marriage from the Sadducees and a question about the Law from […]

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2012/11/06

How many laws do we need?

For the first time ever I have preached to . . . no one. I am wondering if I should just call this a podcast and be done with it? I chose not to drive to Knox and St. Mark’s this Sunday because the roads were a curling rink! The Highways Hotline said that travel […]

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