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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2019/10/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

Which days are those?

Days. The good old days. The bad old days. Better days. Back in the day. We talk about days a lot, which makes sense, a day is a handy and flexibly measure. There are all sorts of ways to define a day, 24 hours, sunup to sundown, one sleep to the next sleep. We also […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: Day of the Lord, Days of the Lord, hope, Jeremiah, knowing God, preaching

2019/10/13 By Barry Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving!

 It’s Thanksgiving Sunday, at least in Canada, so it seemed like a good idea to reflect on being thankful . . . as long as the Lectionary provided an appropriate text. As is so often the case there was an appropriate text but not the obvious one. The Gospel lesson is the story of Jesus […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: grateful, gratitude, Jeremiah, preaching, thanks, thanksgiving

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