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2022/05/22

A gift

I have never met a person who hates gifts. I have met a lot of people who don’t always like all the stuff around gift giving–the expectations, disappointments, forced gratitude–but the idea of “gift” is okay. We often don’t know what to do with gifts and that’s even more likely when we don’t see a […]

Article by Barry / Easter, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / gift, holy spirit, Jesus, preaching Leave a Comment

2019/01/06

More gifts

Living with two different calendars means we don’t always get what we want on the day we want it but sometimes it does work. January 6 is the Epiphany of the Lord, and this year it fell on a Sunday, so we were able talk about the Epiphany and sing “We three kings” on the […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / epiphany, frankincense, gift, gifts, gold, incarnation, Jesus, magi, myrrh, preaching, wise men Leave a Comment

2018/12/30

The gift of Christmas

 I often spend quite a lot of time on sermon titles. They are frequently questions, which I then endeavour to answer in the sermon, and if they aren’t questions they almost always provide direction for me. Every now and then I am very pleased with a sermon title; this Sunday has such a title. We […]

Article by Barry / Christmas, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / Christmas, Christmas season, gift, gifts, Jesus, preaching, presents Leave a Comment

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