incarnation

Advent | Preaching | Sunday | Year B
Not a pop song
ByBarry 2017/12/24
The title for these sermons is “The look of love” which for at least some of us instantly takes us to a particular time and place, i.e. 1982 and wherever we were then. (Here is a link to the song to save you the trouble of looking it up https://youtu.be/BX1pRTK9R0s) However, I am not trying…
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Advent | Preaching | Sunday | Year A
Joseph in a different light
ByBarry 2016/12/182016/12/20
So why would I preach about Joseph, the putative father of Jesus, on this, the fourth Sunday of Advent; the Sunday of Love? There are a lot of reasons I suppose, not least of which is our Gospel lesson. This passage in Matthew is one of the very few places we get a look at…
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Easter | Preaching | Sunday | Year B
Peace
ByBarry 2015/04/19
“Peace be with you” was the functional equivalent in Jesus’ time of “Hello” or perhaps “How are you doing?” so it hardly seems worth spending any time talking about his use of it in today’s Gospel lesson (Luke 24:36b-48) . . . so why did I? Not only did I mention it in both sermons,…
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