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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2016/07/03 By Barry Leave a Comment

What is the opposite of faith?

 There is something essentially human about taking the easy way. It is such a part of being human that we have turned it into a vice. What once was a path to efficiency and minimizing effort has become something to be avoided. There are very few of us who haven’t heard some variation on “don’t […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: Aram, doubt, doubts, easy, faith, leper, leprosy, Naaman, preaching

2014/04/27 By Barry Leave a Comment

I doubt that. Wait! What?

Doubt. Doubts. We all have them. We might doubt that our employer cares about our future. We might doubt that our friends actually like us. We might doubt that the government is honest and serves us. We can even have doubts about God. Do these doubts make us bad people? It is all too easy […]

Filed Under: Easter, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: concern, doubt, Doubting Thomas, doubts, preaching, relief, worry

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