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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2016/09/04 By Barry Leave a Comment

How to deal with confusion

That’s a pretty substantial goal, telling anyone how to deal with confusion, so maybe I better lay out some of the parameters. I am not promising to help you deal with every area of confusion you might be facing in your life. What I am promising, or at least hoping, is to help you deal […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: confused, confusion, hermeneutics, interpret, interpretation, Luke, preaching

2013/09/15 By Barry Leave a Comment

A micro primer on hermeneutics

This Sunday’s sermons come from the Lectionary’s Gospel lesson, which is taken from Luke, in fact Luke 14:25-33 (click here for the texts). The actual title of the sermons is “Hyperbole” and what I was attempting to do was to provide some guidance into how we interpret, or at least hear, the hyperbolic statements and […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: exaggeration, hermeneutics, hyperbole, interpretation, rhetoric, rhetorical device

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