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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2015/02/01 By Barry Leave a Comment

Some things are hard

I know that the title of this blog post is one that could be taken several ways. I hasten to add that this is not a “tell-all” post where I relate things that are going on in my life that are hard (I’m not promising that I won’t write such a post in the future, […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: easy, following Jesus, hard, impossible, preaching

2014/08/31 By Barry Leave a Comment

Mission impossible

There are at least a couple of places in the Bible where we are called to do what seems impossible. The two I’m thinking of are Jesus’ words commonly called the Sermon on the Mount and St. Paul’s words captured in Romans 12:9-21. This Sunday I preached on the Romans passage and referred to it […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: enemies, impossible, love, possible, preaching, Sermon on the Mount, St. Paul

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