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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/09/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

An annoying story

I know, I know . . . I even say it in the sermon, we really aren’t “allowed” to be annoyed or irritated by stories in the Bible. But c’mon, the story about the landowner with the vineyard and his HR practices can be really annoying. There is something in Jesus’ story in Matthew 20 […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: annoyance, fair, fairness, gifts, grace, irritation, justice, landowner, parable, preaching, vineyard, work

2019/01/27 By Barry Leave a Comment

One body for all of us

It is good to be back. I was hoping to be back last week but the weather was sufficiently threatening to prevent us from going, us in this case being Heather and me. This week was Heather and me as I am still not able to drive, hopefully by next week but I must say […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: 1 Corinthians, body, body of Christ, community of faith, gifts, preaching, spiritual gifts, St. Paul

2019/01/06 By Barry Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: epiphany, frankincense, gift, gifts, gold, incarnation, Jesus, magi, myrrh, preaching, wise men

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