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2018/09/23 By Barry Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: James, preaching, submission, submit, wisdom

2018/09/16 By Barry Leave a Comment

Not all proverbs are true

That’s a little provocative, as blog posts go when you tend to talk about the Bible. Which proverb am I talking about? The Old Testament reading for this Sunday is Proverbs 1:20-33, am I singling one of those out? As a matter of fact, I am not. Proverbs are found all over the place, not […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: encouragemnt, James, memory, preaching, speech, tongue, wisdom, words

2018/09/09 By Barry Leave a Comment

More wisdom

When many of us think of wisdom, in the context of church, we think of the Wisdom Literature (not the capital “W”) in the Old Testament. This is understandable but a little limited. Jesus drew on the tradition of the Old Testament Wisdom Literature and so did other New Testament writers. It wasn’t until I […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: favoritism, favouritism, incompatibilities, incompatible, indifference, James, preaching, wisdom

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