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2021/03/21 By Barry Leave a Comment

Humility, how do we get it?

Links and documents from the service As I mentioned in today’s service, heather has a blog where they (they/them/their are heather’s pronouns) discuss some of their story in more depth, the link is below. The Reverend Amanda Currie’s pastoral letter is also below and, depending on how your browser manages pdfs it will open or […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: 2SLGBTQI, humility, Lent, preaching

2019/10/27 By Barry Leave a Comment

Hearing and humility

 I wasn’t entirely sure where this week’s texts were going to take me/us but I wasn’t surprised when the longer I looked at them and thought about them and sat with them that the Luke text became the focus. As I mention, this week in the Lectionary is a challenge for me because I have […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: ear, hear, hearing, humble, humility, Luke, pharisee, preaching, tax collector

2014/11/02 By Barry Leave a Comment

Being and doing and all that

This is the last Sunday where there are two completely different (at least that was the intention) sermons in the one post. The Knox Presbyterian sermon is a meditation on how much we are different than the first century “teachers of the law” and Pharisees; those groups of hyper-religious folks that Jesus had so many […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: evangelism, gospel, humble, humility, outreach, pharisees, preaching, proclaim

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