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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/09/27 By Barry Leave a Comment

Sons, vineyards, and Presbyterians Sharing

This Sunday is Presbyterians Sharing Sunday and it is a Sunday set aside to remember we are part of something larger than our individual Presbyterian congregations. If you are reading this and are not a Presbyterian but a member/adherent/attender in another denomination I am sure everything will be perfectly familiar to you, if under a […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: giving, ministry, parable, preaching, Presbyterians Sharing, sons, vineyard

2020/09/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

An annoying story

I know, I know . . . I even say it in the sermon, we really aren’t “allowed” to be annoyed or irritated by stories in the Bible. But c’mon, the story about the landowner with the vineyard and his HR practices can be really annoying. There is something in Jesus’ story in Matthew 20 […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: annoyance, fair, fairness, gifts, grace, irritation, justice, landowner, parable, preaching, vineyard, work

2020/07/12 By Barry Leave a Comment

Sowing isn’t a one-time thing

Today I had the opportunity to re-visit another thing I got wrong about the Bible when I was younger. I have said it before, but it bears repeating, to the best of my knowledge I was never intentionally misled into falsehood, poor hermeneutics or heresy by someone who knew they were teaching me error(s). However, the […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: parable, parable of the sower, preaching, sowing

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