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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2022/07/10

Familiar but still worth looking at

There are many stories in the Bible that church-going folks know well. There are a few that everyone either knows or has heard something about. The story of the Good Samaritan is one of those stories. By the way, the “everyone” in the statement above really means, “those in a Western or Western-influenced context.” The […]

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2019/07/14

The neighbours have moved

Neighbours, we all have them. Sometimes we get along with them, sometimes we don’t. Our current culture frequently has us living next door to people for years and never even knowing their name. Most of us have had an example or two of what it means to be a neighbour, one of the most famous […]

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2016/06/26

One law is enough

 This Sunday we talked about laws and law. There is something fundamentally human about the need to make laws or rules and something equally fundamentally human about trying to circumvent those laws or rules. I wonder if this second tendency is the source of Paul’s observation in Romans 5:20 “But law came in, with the […]

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