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2020/09/06 By Barry Leave a Comment

Love and debts

If there are two words that don’t go very well together I think the words “love” and “debt” are good candidates. We aren’t in love with our debts and if we are emotionally healthy we don’t think the people we love owe us love in return. So what might I be thinking when I bring the two […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: creditor, debt, debts, Jesus, love, obligation, Paul, preaching, Romans, St. Paul

2020/06/28 By Barry Leave a Comment

What are you working for?

Bob Dylan had a song a long time ago called “You gotta serve somebody” or something similar. It is a binary I’m inclined to accept. At least when I think of it the terms or our Romans passage for today (Romans 6:12-23), especially the last verse, “For the wages of sin is death, but the […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: eternal life, Paul, preaching, Romans, sin, wages

2017/09/17 By Barry 1 Comment

Both weaker and stronger

The blog post title is one of the “almost paradoxes” that come up whenever we begin the process of living and thinking from a non-dual perspective. Our usual response to the notion of weaker and stronger is that we are one or the other and that’s that. Of course when we actually look at it, […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: preaching, Romans, St. Paul, strength, strong, stronger, weak, weaker

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