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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/01/05

Happy New Year 2020!

The first Sunday of a new calendar year so it would make sense to preach about New Year’s, or resolutions or beginnings but instead, the Lectionary led me to preach about Jesus. It is very easy for us to reduce Jesus to a simple binary with “human” on the one side and “God” on the […]

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2019/01/06

More gifts

Living with two different calendars means we don’t always get what we want on the day we want it but sometimes it does work. January 6 is the Epiphany of the Lord, and this year it fell on a Sunday, so we were able talk about the Epiphany and sing “We three kings” on the […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / epiphany, frankincense, gift, gifts, gold, incarnation, Jesus, magi, myrrh, preaching, wise men Leave a Comment

2018/01/07

Why did Jesus get baptized?

As I have mentioned more than once before, one of the most aggravating things about following the Lectionary is having to go over the same thing every year; also, one of the best things about the Lectionary is going over the same thing every year. Seems I’m a little conflicted. The aggravation comes from the […]

Article by Barry / Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / baptism, Baptism of Christ, Baptism of our Lord, Baptism of the Lord, dove, holy spirit, incarnation, Jesus, John the Baptist, preaching Leave a Comment

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