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2019/06/09 By Barry Leave a Comment

An annual thing

 It is good to be back. I was gone last week attending the 145th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. It was a good, if exhausting, time and I strongly encourage you to give the web site for the Assembly a look if you want to know what happened, etc., click this link […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: day of pentecost, divine, holy spirit, miraculous, Pentecost, preaching

2018/05/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

Not just tongues of fire

 Pentecost is more than tongues of fire and the colour red. Pentecost is the time we have set aside to pay attention to the new way the Holy Spirit decided to interact with people. Many of us can picture the scene, a wind inside a closed house, tongues of fire on people’s heads, people being […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: advocate, holy spirit, Jesus, Joh, paraclete, Paraclete Sayings, Pentecost, preaching

2017/06/04 By Barry Leave a Comment

Another birthday

Today is not my birthday it is the birthday of the church. We frequently forget that things we have been around for a long time had a beginning. I seem to have a memory of being quite surprised to find out that my parents were born at some point. It is easy for us to […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: birth of the church, birthday, great schism, Pentecost, preaching, spiritual gifts

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