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2020/11/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

Serving the King

Christ the King Sunday is the last Sunday in the liturgical year. It doesn’t lead, at least not always, to the kind of introspection December 31st can. This year it led me to think about what it means to serve a monarch. If we are thinking in terms of a “traditional” monarch, an historical king […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Christ the King, Ephesians, king, monarch, preaching, queen, Reign of Christ, serving

2018/08/19 By Barry Leave a Comment

Let’s talk wisdom

Wisdom is one of those tricky words. It is frequently conflated with cleverness or even pragmatism and it really isn’t related to either of those. We are talking about wisdom today because our Old Testament lesson, about Solomon, and our Epistle lesson, Paul telling to live wise rather than unwise lives, are very much thematically […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: Ephesians, Paul, preaching, Solomon, vision, wisdom

2018/08/12 By Barry Leave a Comment

Beyond another list

We like to tell ourselves we don’t like rules but really, most of us do. We like rules because they make for a predictable world and who doesn’t want that? I don’t know anyone who is looking for anarchy on the roads for example. No one wants traffic lights to mean whatever anyone wants them […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: Ephesians, freedom, love, Paul, preaching, regulations, rules, St. Paul

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