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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/02/19 By Barry Leave a Comment

Tricky words

 It is all too easy for me to allow almost any discussion to get to the level of words – how they are used, what they mean, what is the philosophy of that word – so I work pretty hard at not letting sermons end up there. However, there are times when we need to […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: holy, language, Leviticus, Matthew, perfect, preaching, Sermon on the Mount, totalizing, words

2013/09/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

Politics? Yes I went there, but not how you might have thought

I know, I know, I know. The two topics you should never talk about are religion and politics. Now I am more or less forced to talk about the former but to bring the latter in too  . . . well, what was I thinking? What I was thinking, was a slightly different take on […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: 1 Timothy 2:1-2, godly, holy, peaceful, preaching, quiet, sermons

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