Commands are funny things. We give them all the time, to electronic devices, pets, and our automobiles but we don’t like getting them very much. Commands have a heavy connotation of coercion. We are seldom commanded to do something we want to do anyway. The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is filled with commands and…
I didn’t realize it until after I came up with it but the sermon title could reasonably be considered an attack on purity culture. It isn’t. Not to say I don’t have some things to say about purity culture and its essential misogyny and fundamental destructive orientation but if I ever preach a sermon about…
First of all, a word of explanation, followed by an apology. This Sunday may sound different in the “physical” audio but will also begin much differently than usual because I did not preach at St. Mark’s in Moose Jaw but rather at Trinity Presbyterian, in Grenfell. Grenfell is about a hundred kilometres east of Regina….