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2021/02/28 By Barry Leave a Comment

Is it a paradox?

So what is a paradox anyway? Well, this is one of the reasons God helped us invent dictionaries. I’m grateful to all those people who then put the dictionaries online.  (păr′ə-dŏks′)n. 1. A statement that seems to contradict itself but may nonetheless be true: the paradox that standing is more tiring than walking. 2. A […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: Lent 2, paradox, preaching

2021/02/21 By Barry Leave a Comment

It’s the first Sunday in Lent

It’s the first Sunday in Lent, not these Sundays are in Lent, not of Lent. It doesn’t seem to make a huge difference but if Lent is forty days long and you count all the calendar days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday you get more than forty. The Sundays aren’t counted so the math […]

Filed Under: Lent, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: Lent, Lent 1, preaching

2021/02/14 By Barry Leave a Comment

Another look at Transfiguration

Transfiguration Sunday comes around every church year. You can think of it as the last Sunday of Epiphany or the last Sunday before Lent but it comes up no matter what you think of it. This is the beauty and (sometimes) the challenge of following the Lectionary. I am grateful to all of those preaching […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: preaching, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Sunday

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