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2020/09/27 By Barry Leave a Comment

Sons, vineyards, and Presbyterians Sharing

This Sunday is Presbyterians Sharing Sunday and it is a Sunday set aside to remember we are part of something larger than our individual Presbyterian congregations. If you are reading this and are not a Presbyterian but a member/adherent/attender in another denomination I am sure everything will be perfectly familiar to you, if under a […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: giving, ministry, parable, preaching, Presbyterians Sharing, sons, vineyard

2019/09/29 By Barry Leave a Comment

Contentment and giving

 Contentment is a tricky word. For some people, the connotations of contentment include a fatalistic “settling” for what is and giving up on anything else or anything better. I hasten to point out, this is not what is meant by contentment, especially not when Paul uses it in 2 Timothy. Contentment isn’t settling for what […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: contentment, enough, giving, Paul, preaching, Presbyterians Sharing, Timothy

2015/06/28 By Barry Leave a Comment

Let’s talk giving. No really, let’s.

There are some topics that preachers aren’t supposed to touch and giving is at least two of them. Tempting as it is to say that I don’t really know why, I do know why. Money is a touchy topic almost everywhere; the church is no exception. For better or worse, and mostly worse, there is […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: 2 Corinthians, charity, Corinth, give, giving, Paul, preaching, St. Paul, willingness

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