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2021/01/03 By Barry Leave a Comment

Let us begin

Happy New Year! Again! One of the nice things about using the church calendar is getting two New Year celebrations. We had the beginning of the new liturgical year a few weeks ago and we are now into a new calendar year too. I don’t tend to make resolutions, nothing wrong with them but if […]

Filed Under: Christmas, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: Christmas 2, hope, new calendar year, New Year again, preaching

2020/11/29 By Barry 1 Comment

Hope for a new year!

It is a new year, really. Not a new calendar but a new Liturgical year, a new church year. Even though the church uses the same calendar you use for lots of things, the church year is different from the calendar. It begins with the First Sunday of Advent, which this year is November 29 […]

Filed Under: Advent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: advent 1, hope, new church year, new year, preaching

2020/11/15 By Barry Leave a Comment

Everyone wants a schedule

Even people who hate being told what to do, who hate being constrained, tend to like a schedule. They might not want anyone to schedule them but they probably want to know when other people are available or around. It shouldn’t surprise us that we want to know what is coming up. When we think […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: end of all things, end times, eschatology, hope, Paul, preaching, schedule, timing

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