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2022/07/03

Sometimes it is easy . . . or is it?

Most of us have things we say often. My kids have heard me say some variation of “Nothing of value comes without work” or “Nothing that matters is easy” probably more times than they want. The idea isn’t a bad one, it is true, most things we want take some work to get. No one […]

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2022/06/19

We aren’t forgotten

No one wants to be forgotten. For that matter, no one wants to forget someone else. I know there are exceptions to this and every rule, but for the most part, I think this is true. The “not being forgotten” part is pretty self-evident. The evidence for not wanting to forget other people is the […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / Elijah, forgetting, forgotten, healing, Jesus, preaching Leave a Comment

2018/10/28

You don’t have to be blind

No one chooses to be blind. Well there was that one character in a middling-bad science fiction book who intentionally blinded himself to concentrate on science but a) he’s fictional; and, b) that’s dumb. But, does everyone choose to see? We are looking at the Gospel lesson for this Sunday, Mark 10:46-52, which is the […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Sunday, Year B / Bartimaeus, blind, blindness, healing, Mark, preaching, see, seeing, sermon Leave a Comment

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