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2018/10/21 By Barry Leave a Comment

Servant?

A short word before we get to anything else. This Sunday Knox Presbyterian had the great privilege of witnessing a member joining by confession of faith and four, yes you read that correctly, FOUR baptisms. It made for a delightful service but you will notice quite a lot of extra voices during the sermon. I […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: gospel, James, Jesus, John, preaching, servant, serve, service, St. Mark

2018/09/30 By Barry Leave a Comment

Prayer and talking

This post’s title is what I was getting at with the sermon title but fuzzier so the actual title was “Prayer and speech”; let me know which you think is better. We are finished with James for this church year and we finished up with a discussion about and around prayer. The last half of […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: healing, James, prayer, prayer of a righteous person, praying, preaching, speaking, speech, talking

2018/09/23 By Barry Leave a Comment

No end to wisdom

We are revisiting wisdom again this Sunday. Our Lectionary readings include more from Proverbs, plus Psalm 1 but we are going to look at James. James is a book I thought I was familiar with, and I suppose in all honest I was, but I am finding out some new and really good stuff every […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: James, preaching, submission, submit, wisdom

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