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2022/01/02

It’s our second new year

One of the nice things about following the Liturgical year is you get two New Years’. First the beginning of the church year with the first Sunday of Advent and then the beginning of the calendar year with January 1st. This Sunday is closest to the second New Year, the one where people make resolutions. […]

Article by Barry / Christmas, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / new year, preaching, resolutions, trip Leave a Comment

2020/11/29

Hope for a new year!

It is a new year, really. Not a new calendar but a new Liturgical year, a new church year. Even though the church uses the same calendar you use for lots of things, the church year is different from the calendar. It begins with the First Sunday of Advent, which this year is November 29 […]

Article by Barry / Advent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / advent 1, hope, new church year, new year, preaching 1 Comment

2020/01/05

Happy New Year 2020!

The first Sunday of a new calendar year so it would make sense to preach about New Year’s, or resolutions or beginnings but instead, the Lectionary led me to preach about Jesus. It is very easy for us to reduce Jesus to a simple binary with “human” on the one side and “God” on the […]

Article by Barry / Christmas, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / 2020, incarnation, Jesus, new year, preaching Leave a Comment

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