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Sermon: Sadly without unicorns
There have been many Christological interpretations of this psalm throughout history, and I am going to ignore all of them, except to say that an early mistranslation of ‘He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox’ had Sirion, another name for Mount Hermon on the border between Lebanon and Syria, skipping like a young unicorn. There were some wonderful interpretations of this psalm based on this mention of a unicorn, but sadly I must ignore them all, given that the unicorn was an ox. Continue reading
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Tagged Brene Brown, Gerard Manley Hopkins, gratitude, Monty Python, nature, Psalm 29, Trinity Sunday
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Reflection: The Offering
What I explained over the course of that year is that as a worship leader I stand up every single Sunday and tell a congregation something along the lines of, “Everything that we have is a gift from God, given to us to share”. If I mean that about my money, and my time, and my talents, then I could also mean this about a spare kidney, if I had one. Continue reading
Posted in Random Musings
Tagged giving, gratitude, kidney donation, Offering, tithing
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