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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2018/09/09 By Barry Leave a Comment

More wisdom

When many of us think of wisdom, in the context of church, we think of the Wisdom Literature (not the capital “W”) in the Old Testament. This is understandable but a little limited. Jesus drew on the tradition of the Old Testament Wisdom Literature and so did other New Testament writers. It wasn’t until I […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: favoritism, favouritism, incompatibilities, incompatible, indifference, James, preaching, wisdom

2014/01/12 By Barry Leave a Comment

Favouritism? Partiality? Nope, not here.

Favouritism, partiality, no matter what you call it, NO ONE likes it. Even when the deck is stacked in our favour there is still a little something that we don’t like about it. When someone else gets ahead because of favouritism being directed to them then there isn’t a little something we don’t like about […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: advocate, Baptism of the Lord, favouritism, partiality, preaching, understand, understanding

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