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2020/11/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

Serving the King

Christ the King Sunday is the last Sunday in the liturgical year. It doesn’t lead, at least not always, to the kind of introspection December 31st can. This year it led me to think about what it means to serve a monarch. If we are thinking in terms of a “traditional” monarch, an historical king […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Christ the King, Ephesians, king, monarch, preaching, queen, Reign of Christ, serving

2018/06/10 By Barry Leave a Comment

We don’t always know what we want

It is a truism that we frequently don’t know what we really want. We almost always have an answer when someone asks us, “What do you want?” but it doesn’t always reflect reality. This isn’t because we are dumb, it is because we ask for the first thing we can think of that might address […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: 1 Samuel, Freud, God, king, needs, preaching, Samuel, wants, what do we want

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