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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/04/19 By Barry Leave a Comment

Faith and doubt, courage and fear

This Sunday we have another one of those things that is from the Bible but not everyone knows the origin, namely, “Doubting Thomas.” I have known several (many?) people use the phrase who were very surprised to find out it was from the Bible. That doesn’t make them bad people or anything, rather it highlights […]

Filed Under: Easter, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: certainty, Courage, doubt, Doubting Thomas, faith, fear, preaching, thomas

2014/07/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

Daddy

This Sunday there is only one sermon attached because I only preached one, and what is more I preached it at a different church than usual. Don’t worry, I haven’t left Knox and St. Mark’s, I was invited back to First Presbyterian Church in Regina, what fun! First Presbyterian is the church that is most […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: abba, daddy, father, fear, love, slavery, slaves

2013/06/23 By Barry Leave a Comment

Some thoughts on being afraid

I am occasionally afraid. I think that virtually everyone finds themselves in that state at least now and then. Frequently what makes us afraid is something that is just ridiculous but often we are made afraid by something that is frightening. A car careening toward you is something that should make you afraid; the dark, […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: afraid, fear

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