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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2020/06/21 By Barry Leave a Comment

What and where is grace?

This Sunday is Fathers Day (or Father’s Day or Fathers’ Day, I’m never sure). It will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time that Fathe… Day didn’t come up. I’m not opposed to celebrating mothers and fathers, or grandparents, aunties, unties, uncles, or any other […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Abraham, Fathers Day, Genesis, grace, Hagar, Ishmael, Paul, preaching, Romans 6, Sarah

2017/07/02 By Barry Leave a Comment

I won’t work for that

The picture to the left notwithstanding, I did not preach about Canada and how wonderful it is nor how much I love my country, flawed as it is. This Sunday’s sermons are all about wages and eternity. It might seem like a peculiar combination but both of these ideas are very much in our Epistle […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Canada Day, God, master, preaching, Romans 6, serve, slave, St. Paul

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