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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2015/06/07 By Barry Leave a Comment

It is all about context

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. […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: context, hope, meaning, preaching, suffering

2014/12/07 By Barry Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Advent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: 1000 years, advent, context, early, late, preaching, relativity

2014/05/18 By Barry Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Easter, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: 1 Peter, boulders, context, gifting, pebbles, preaching, rocks, stones

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