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2021/06/06

Do we actually know what we want?

PLEASE NOTE: our house suffered a brief power failure in the middle of the sermon so you will hear a break, then a few words from me about it, and then the sermon continues. My apologies for the jolt. There is something essentially human of wanting and NOT wanting to wait for it. It is […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / choices, Pentecost 2, preaching, short cuts, shortcuts, solutions, want, wants Leave a Comment

2018/06/10

We don’t always know what we want

It is a truism that we frequently don’t know what we really want. We almost always have an answer when someone asks us, “What do you want?” but it doesn’t always reflect reality. This isn’t because we are dumb, it is because we ask for the first thing we can think of that might address […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / 1 Samuel, Freud, God, king, needs, preaching, Samuel, wants, what do we want Leave a Comment

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