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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/07/02 By Barry Leave a Comment

I won’t work for that

The picture to the left notwithstanding, I did not preach about Canada and how wonderful it is nor how much I love my country, flawed as it is. This Sunday’s sermons are all about wages and eternity. It might seem like a peculiar combination but both of these ideas are very much in our Epistle […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Canada Day, God, master, preaching, Romans 6, serve, slave, St. Paul

2015/05/10 By Barry Leave a Comment

What’s the opposite of servant?

I have been struck lately, as I am sure is obvious, by the limitations of our tendency toward unhelpful binary thinking. So this Sunday I just lay it out in these two sermons where I think the limitations are using John 15:9-17 as my case study. This passage of scripture has lots of really great […]

Filed Under: Easter, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: binary thinking, dualism, friend, master, preaching, servant

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