• Home
  • About
  • Sermons

Words From the Middle

At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2017/10/29 By Barry Leave a Comment

Still more questions

This section of Matthew is filled with questions. As I think I mentioned last week, these are a particular kind of question, the “gotcha” kind. In Matthew 22.15-46 Jesus deals with: a combined question about taxes from the Pharisees and Herodians, a question about marriage from the Sadducees and a question about the Law from […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: commandments, Jesus, law, Matthew, mission statement, pharisees, preaching, purpose statement, questions

2016/06/12 By Barry Leave a Comment

Debt and grace

I preach about grace fairly often. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, after all grace is one of the hallmarks of following Jesus so it shows up in the Lectionary texts with some frequency. I also very much enjoy preaching about grace because it is one of the hardest things for me, and […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: debt, debtor, debtors, forgiven, grace, Jesus, pharisee, pharisees, preaching, Simon

2014/11/02 By Barry Leave a Comment

Being and doing and all that

This is the last Sunday where there are two completely different (at least that was the intention) sermons in the one post. The Knox Presbyterian sermon is a meditation on how much we are different than the first century “teachers of the law” and Pharisees; those groups of hyper-religious folks that Jesus had so many […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: evangelism, gospel, humble, humility, outreach, pharisees, preaching, proclaim

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

Copyright © 2021 · Words From the Middle · Log in