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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2019/09/15 By Barry Leave a Comment

Who’s looking for you?

Have you ever been lost? I have. I have been lost more times than I like to remember. In fact, I’ve been lost so often I suspect sometimes I haven’t even known I was lost. It isn’t all bad. My complete inability to deal with North, South, East, and West most of the time played […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: coin, help, lost, lostness, Luke 15, people, preaching, sheep

2016/07/10 By Barry Leave a Comment

Who is my neighbour?

 Today’s Gospel lesson includes one of the best known stories in the Bible; the story of the Good Samaritan. At its heart this story is one of inclusion. The story begins with someone, a lawyer, asking Jesus how to inherit eternal life. Jesus asks how the lawyer thinks it works. The lawyer says to love […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: exclusion, exclusivity, Good Samaritan, help, inclusion, inclusivity, lawyer, levite, preaching, priest, question, questions, Samaritan

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