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2020/09/13 By Barry Leave a Comment

Weakness and forgiveness, related to each other?

Weakness and forgiveness don’t really seem related to each other, at least not immediately. I’m not convinced I really drew the two ideas together very well this week but there was something about the juxtaposition of Romans 14:1-12 and Matthew 18:21-35 that grabbed me. What I was trying to do was help us see how […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: forgive, forgiveness, Matthew 18.21-35, preaching, Romans 14.1-12, strength, strong, weak, weakness

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

2015/07/05 By Barry Leave a Comment

Paradox?

No, no, no. Paradox not a pair of ducks, yeesh. This Sunday’s sermons were about paradox. Well not exactly the notion, theory or existence of paradox but rather a particular statement that might be a paradox. First, here’s a few definitions of paradox. n. A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true: the paradox […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: ducks, paradox, preaching, strength, strong, weak, weakness

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