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2019/09/22 By Barry Leave a Comment

All means all

It seems for lots of us, the shorter the word the easier it is to misunderstand or even misuse it. Today we are talking about what the word “all” might mean for us in a particular context. The Lectionary’s Epistle lesson for this Sunday is 1 Timothy 2:1-7, we focused primarily on the first three […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: Nero, Paul, politicians, politics, pray for leaders, prayer, praying, preaching

2019/07/28 By Barry Leave a Comment

The same but different

One of the most familiar passages of Scripture in all of Scripture is the Lord’s Prayer. About the only passage I can think of which might be better known is Psalm 23. I have a recollection of when I was growing up we recited the Lord’s Prayer in school, I am disinclined to weigh in […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: "teach us how to pray", Lord's Prayer, prayer, praying, preaching

2018/09/30 By Barry Leave a Comment

Prayer and talking

This post’s title is what I was getting at with the sermon title but fuzzier so the actual title was “Prayer and speech”; let me know which you think is better. We are finished with James for this church year and we finished up with a discussion about and around prayer. The last half of […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: healing, James, prayer, prayer of a righteous person, praying, preaching, speaking, speech, talking

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