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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission: Preacher's Study - Year C, Proper 7 (12) 2013
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Friday, June 17, 2016. Preacher's Study - Year C, Proper 7 (12) 2013. The Preacher’s Study. Sunday after Pentecost, 2016. John W.B. Hill. 1 Kings 19.1-4, (5-7), 8-15a. Psalm 42 and 43;. Galatians 3.23-29;. The story of the Gerasene demoniac is one of the richest and most revealing exorcism stories of the gospel; it also makes high demands upon our symbolic imagination. But first we must attend to the details. The extreme form of scapegoating culminates in killing the accused — by a lynch mob or, in...
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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission: December 2013
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Thursday, December 26, 2013. Preacher's Study - Year A, Christmas I, 2013. The Preacher’s Study. First thoughts about next Sunday’s sermon,. The presents are opened, the tree is starting to dry, the eggnog is gone, Now what? Part of the challenge of preaching during the twelve days of Christmas is that most people assume Christmas is over and done with. An example of this is Bill Countryman's perhaps startling claim that Anglican spirituality is fundamentally an aesthetic spirituality. By aesthetic he di...
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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. Preacher’s Study – Year B, Proper 18 (23) 2015. Monday Morning in the Preacher’s Study. First thoughts about next Sunday’s sermon. 15th Sunday after Pentecost, Sept. 6, 2015). Living our Baptismal Promise. From a Perspective of Privilege. What does it mean to live out our baptismal promise from a perspective of privilege? The Johari Window is a psychological tool for understanding how we and others see ourselves. Privilege often puts us in the Blind pane. But Mark’s account...
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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission: Preacher’s Study – Year C, Proper 6 (11) 2016
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Saturday, June 4, 2016. Preacher’s Study – Year C, Proper 6 (11) 2016. The Preacher’s Study. Sunday after Pentecost, 2016. John W.B. Hill. 1 Kings 21.1-10, (11-14), 15-21a. Galatians 2.15-21;. Luke 7.36 – 8.3. The second reading for this Sunday takes us to the very heart of the Gospel according to Paul, the good news revealed to him on the road to Damascus. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.”. And he ‘justified’ the elimination of...That̵...
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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission: March 2016
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Sunday, March 20, 2016. Preacher’s Study – Maundy Thursday, 2016. The Preacher’s Study. Paschal Triduum - Maundy Thursday. John W.B. Hill. Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14;. Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19;. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26;. John 13:1-17, 31b-35. The Maundy Thursday liturgy marks the beginning of The Passover of the Lord, the Great Three Days (each ‘day’ beginning at twilight — see Exodus 12:6. At the beginning of the first. At the beginning of the third. Our three-day celebration of the Passover of the Lord, G...
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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission: February 2016
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Monday, February 29, 2016. Preacher’s Study – Lent 4C, 2016; Prodigal Son. The Preacher’s Study. Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C. 2 Corinthians 5.16-21. Luke 15.1-3, 11b-32. If limited imagination is. Our problem, it’s one shared by two of the characters we encounter as we wander through the story. Then, it strikes him: “Father is a man of mercy, willing to risk both dignity and honor for the sake of his boys. He’s already done the unthinkable, cashing out my inheritance without so much as ...It may be tha...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: On Faith, Fear, and Super Powers: A Sermon for St. Anne's Anglican Church, Toronto
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The Vicar of Wakefield. Reflections of a parish priest on theology, ministry, and life. Sunday, August 10, 2014. On Faith, Fear, and Super Powers: A Sermon for St. Anne's Anglican Church, Toronto. But then you are changed or transformed by those people or experiences? Then, of course, we get to the really good stuff—when the storms rage, Jesus walks on water, and Peter does, too, for a moment, before he starts into sink in the deep. It’s one of those stories that never fails to capture th...In the case o...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: August 2014
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The Vicar of Wakefield. Reflections of a parish priest on theology, ministry, and life. Sunday, August 10, 2014. On Faith, Fear, and Super Powers: A Sermon for St. Anne's Anglican Church, Toronto. But then you are changed or transformed by those people or experiences? Then, of course, we get to the really good stuff—when the storms rage, Jesus walks on water, and Peter does, too, for a moment, before he starts into sink in the deep. It’s one of those stories that never fails to capture th...In the case o...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: October 2013
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The Vicar of Wakefield. Reflections of a parish priest on theology, ministry, and life. Tuesday, October 22, 2013. Icke jag, utan Gud i mig": A sermon on new covenants, fresh starts, and God in us. In our first reading from the Prophet Jeremiah we heard:. 8220;Not I, without God in me.” This sentence is taken from Hammarskjöld’s diary, found among his papers and published after he died, translated into English as Markings. Thou who art over us,. Thou who art one of us,. Thou who art—. Also within us,.
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