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2021/09/19

Is that real wisdom?

Wisdom. This is another word, from a quite short list of religiously significant words, that hasn’t been debased or redefined into uselessness. Wisdom still means something to almost everyone even if it is hard to define. It is a word with generally positive connotations and something virtually everyone wants. We want political and other leaders […]

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2021/08/15

What would you ask for?

It seems to take some of us quite a while to learn that if we don’t ask for what we need, we probably won’t ever get it. This makes sense in children who are trying to figure out how the world works but it makes less sense when you are well into adulthood and still […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / ask, preaching, Solomon, wisdom 1 Comment

2018/09/23

No end to wisdom

We are revisiting wisdom again this Sunday. Our Lectionary readings include more from Proverbs, plus Psalm 1 but we are going to look at James. James is a book I thought I was familiar with, and I suppose in all honest I was, but I am finding out some new and really good stuff every […]

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