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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2021/09/12

Self-control might not be enough

Sometimes we think “if only I had enough self-control I wouldn’t say anything dumb or hurtful.” It is a really good thing to not want to be hurtful and it’s not a bad idea to try not to say dumb things but there’s only one problem; this seems to be beyond us. I don’t want […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / communication, James, preaching, talking, tongue Leave a Comment

2020/05/17

How do we talk well?

 I preface all of this by noting we are not talking about diction today. If I would have more creativity at my fingertips when I needed a sermon title I would have probably said something about conversation rather than talking but sometimes we do all we can and subsequently wish we could have done more. […]

Article by Barry / Easter, Preaching, Sunday, Year A / conversation, preaching, St. Paul, St.Peter, talk, talking Leave a Comment

2018/09/30

Prayer and talking

This post’s title is what I was getting at with the sermon title but fuzzier so the actual title was “Prayer and speech”; let me know which you think is better. We are finished with James for this church year and we finished up with a discussion about and around prayer. The last half of […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / healing, James, prayer, prayer of a righteous person, praying, preaching, speaking, speech, talking Leave a Comment

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