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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2023/01/15

Talking about grace

Grace, as I am sure I have mentioned before, is one of my favourite words and also one of my favourite things. It is one of the few theologically significant words in common use which has yet to be significantly debased. Grace, graceful, and gracious still retain their positive connotations in our culture. This Sunday’s […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / grace, preaching, season of epiphany, St. Paul Leave a Comment

2020/09/20

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 […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / annoyance, fair, fairness, gifts, grace, irritation, justice, landowner, parable, preaching, vineyard, work Leave a Comment

2020/06/21

What and where is grace?

This Sunday is Fathers Day (or Father’s Day or Fathers’ Day, I’m never sure). It will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time that Fathe… Day didn’t come up. I’m not opposed to celebrating mothers and fathers, or grandparents, aunties, unties, uncles, or any other […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / Abraham, Fathers Day, Genesis, grace, Hagar, Ishmael, Paul, preaching, Romans 6, Sarah Leave a Comment

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