When we don’t have the correct context it is very difficult to understand what is going on. A pastor of my acquaintance, newly installed at a church, was reported to be “having lunch with a blonde” by a, no doubt well-meaning, parishioner who had never met the pastor’s daughter, the daughter had been away school. […]
Context is everything
The title of this blog post was originally going to be something about relativity but then I thought that “context” might capture the essence of these sermons a bit better. We have arrived at the second week of Advent and for some this might be the hardest week to make it through, Christmas is still […]
Let’s talk rocks
Today was an opportunity to stroll down memory lane. Our Lectionary texts had us in 1 Peter and the passage where we are called living stones, which was the name of a youth choir that I sang in a number of years ago. There is more detail in the sermon so give it a listen […]