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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2016/09/18

Sometimes you just have to

Prayer is one of the aspects of the Christian life that most of us are pretty sure we understand. I hasten to add that we don’t think we understand all of it by any means. We are still baffled why God answers some prayers in the way we expect and want and doesn’t answer others. […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / 1 Timothy, chaos, mayhem, oppression, pray, prayer, praying, preaching, St. Paul, Timothy Leave a Comment

2016/07/24

Prayer

This week’s sermon title is “Let’s talk prayer” which means it could be preached virtually any Sunday 🙂 In this case, the Lectionary has us looking at Luke 11 where the so-called shorter Lord’s Prayer is found. The passage continues to verse 13 which means it includes a couple of Jesus’ funniest illustrations as well […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / egg, fish, Lord's Prayer, persistence, pray, prayer, preaching, scorpion, snake, stone Leave a Comment

2015/11/15

Why pray?

This Sunday’s general topic was pretty easy. The story of Hannah that opens 1 Samuel is all about prayer; Hannah prayed, God answered, end of story . . . or is it? I found myself thinking more about the narrower perspective of prayer, in particular, why pray at all? Why do we pray? If God […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Sunday, Uncategorized, Year B / fatalism, Hannah, knowing Jesus, pray, prayer, preaching, Samuel, St. Mark, why pray Leave a Comment

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