All Saints – Two Calendars telling a story

By Parson Brown, on 12:19 pm%

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Let me just say two things about this sermon: 1) I really hate it as a sermon. I think it misses the audience, doesn’t point to Christ enough, lacks a real solid textual foundation and doesn’t have the unity of message it should have. 2) I think some of the parts of . . . → Read More: All Saints – Two Calendars telling a story

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Those who have, more will be added…

By Parson Brown, on 4:15 pm%

That is the start of a pithy saying of Jesus. So pithy it found its way into the Synoptic gospels (Matt, Mark and Luke) in at least four places – Matt 13:11-12, Matt 25:29, Mark 4:25, Luke 19:26. And those 4 places represent at least 3.5 stories: the explanation to the parable of . . . → Read More: Those who have, more will be added…

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Life Priorities

By Parson Brown, on 11:52 am%

Text: Luke 20:19-26

The last thing that I’d want to do is wade into a political mine field, but the text before me today contains the famous reply of Jesus, “Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar’s, and to God, what is God’s.” It is a reply that asks us at a fundamental level to examine . . . → Read More: Life Priorities

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Fat Tuesday & Ash Wednesday

By Parson Brown, on 9:29 am%

Text: Matt 9:14-15, Matt 28:20

I have read it said of our society that we want a continual Fat Tuesday, we want the Carnival to go on without ever needing or ending in Ash Wednesday. That always sounded like an appropriate curmudgeony thing to say – and the Lord knows I enjoy a good curmudgeon. . . . → Read More: Fat Tuesday & Ash Wednesday

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Epiphany

By Parson Brown, on 12:12 pm%

Reading – Mathew 12:14-21

Today on the Church Calendar is the Feast of Epiphany. It doesn’t happen on a Sunday – so it is forgotten. Depending upon the time of Easter, the church has at least 5 “Sundays after Epiphany” and it can have up to 9 “Sundays after Epiphany”. That is . . . → Read More: Epiphany

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