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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2018/10/21

Servant?

A short word before we get to anything else. This Sunday Knox Presbyterian had the great privilege of witnessing a member joining by confession of faith and four, yes you read that correctly, FOUR baptisms. It made for a delightful service but you will notice quite a lot of extra voices during the sermon. I […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / gospel, James, Jesus, John, preaching, servant, serve, service, St. Mark Leave a Comment

2017/10/22

If it belongs to the emperor then give it to emperor

 This Sunday we looked at one of the more well known stories in the Gospels. Jesus is asked a leading, and potentially quite dangerous question, about taxes. There is a lot going on behind that question. The Pharisees and Herodians actually got together to try and come up with something that would neutralize or remove […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / Caesar, citizen, citizenship, civil society, emperor, gospel, Jesus, Matthew, Matthew 22.15-22, preaching, society, tax, taxes Leave a Comment

2014/11/02

Being and doing and all that

This is the last Sunday where there are two completely different (at least that was the intention) sermons in the one post. The Knox Presbyterian sermon is a meditation on how much we are different than the first century “teachers of the law” and Pharisees; those groups of hyper-religious folks that Jesus had so many […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / evangelism, gospel, humble, humility, outreach, pharisees, preaching, proclaim Leave a Comment

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