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2021/02/07 By Barry Leave a Comment

It’s all about context

Context is one of those tricky things, at least it can be tricky. Today’s sermon is taken from St. Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians, “I have become all things to all people.” (1 Corinthians 9:22b NRSV) It was all too easy for me, especially when I was younger, to look at Paul’s statement and write […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: 1 Corinthians, all things to all people, context, preaching, St. Paul

2020/10/04 By Barry Leave a Comment

Confident in what?

Confidence is an interesting thing. We need to have confidence in ourselves and in our institutions. Governments, especially minority governments, need to have the confidence of the house. When people lose confidence in banks, bad things happen and “confidence men [sic]” might trick us out of our money. So is confidence good or bad? Well, […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: confidence, confident, Paul, Philippians, preaching, St. Paul

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

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