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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/02/19 By Barry Leave a Comment

Tricky words

 It is all too easy for me to allow almost any discussion to get to the level of words – how they are used, what they mean, what is the philosophy of that word – so I work pretty hard at not letting sermons end up there. However, there are times when we need to […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: holy, language, Leviticus, Matthew, perfect, preaching, Sermon on the Mount, totalizing, words

2015/09/13 By Barry Leave a Comment

Who? Me?

I think it is virtually impossible for any of us over a particular age to hear “Only you . . .” without filling in the rest with “. . . can prevent forest fires” complete with the visual image of a stern bear pointing directly at us. For some people that might have been their […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: fire, fires, holy spirit, language, talk, tongue, word, words

2014/12/14 By Barry Leave a Comment

Thoughts on “joy”

This Sunday’s sermons take a bit of a different look at “joy” and do so through first spending some time thinking about what the word means and for that matter what words mean at all. There is a perverse tendency in our culture to take good and useful words and make them useless. Most of […]

Filed Under: Advent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: advent, c.s. lewis, happiness, incarnation, joy, language, objective, preaching

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