hope

Advent | Preaching | Sunday | Year A
New year, new hope?
ByBarry 2025/11/302025/11/30
It is a new church year. As I mentioned in the message, the church doesn’t have its own year to complicate things; it is just how we do things. The church year begins with the four Sundays of Advent. The first Sunday of Advent is the Sunday of hope. I wasn’t frightened of the topic…
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Advent | Preaching | Sunday | Year C
Hopeful?
ByBarry 2024/12/012024/12/01
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Hope! For some reason I said it is the first Sunday of Lent when there are NO Sundays of Lent, there are only Sundays in Lent. As I mention in the sermon, I am very grateful the church year begins with the hope. I am…
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Advent | Preaching | Sunday | Year B
Hopeful? Yes, again.
ByBarry 2023/12/032023/12/03
It is the First Sunday of Advent today. It is the first Sunday in the liturgical, or church, year. As you probably know, each of the four Sundays in Advent are themed, or have an appellation. This Sunday is the Hope Sunday. Hope. It seems painfully ironic to have a Sunday about Hope these days….
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