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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/10/11 By Barry Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving and gratitude

Today is Thanksgiving Sunday so it seemed a natural thing to reflect on being thankful. I found myself led past the usual people and things for which I’m thankful as I reflected on our Old Testament lesson in comparison to the Philippians reading. We find it easy, or at least I do, to be a […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Exodus, grateful, gratitude, idol, idolatry, Philippians, preaching, thanksgiving

2020/10/04 By Barry Leave a Comment

Confident in what?

Confidence is an interesting thing. We need to have confidence in ourselves and in our institutions. Governments, especially minority governments, need to have the confidence of the house. When people lose confidence in banks, bad things happen and “confidence men [sic]” might trick us out of our money. So is confidence good or bad? Well, […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: confidence, confident, Paul, Philippians, preaching, St. Paul

2019/04/07 By Barry Leave a Comment

Keep going

There was another first today. I preached in a suit, and a football jersey. Today is Green Shirt Day, a day in recognition of and for organ donation. I would like to say a bright green Riders jersey, as that is the only non-t-shirt, non-sweatshirt, green, garment I have looks good but I’m not willing […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: green shirt day, keep moving, Lent, lent 5, Paul, Philippians, preaching, press on, race

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