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A Sermon for Trinity Sunday

I preached on Trinity Sunday (June 12) at Prairie Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg, MB.  Below is the text of my sermon on the lectionary texts:  Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8Romans 5:1-5John 16:12-15. Continue reading A Sermon for Trinity Sunday

Eugene Peterson on the Congruence of the Christian Life

“The Christian life is the lifelong practice of attending to the details of congruence—congruence between ends and means, congruence between what we do and the way we do it, congruence between what is written in Scripture and our living out what is written, congruence between a ship and its prow, congruence between preaching and living, congruence between the sermon and what is lived in both preacher and congregation, the congruence of the Word made flesh in Jesus with what is lived in our flesh.” – Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God (New York: Waterbrook, 2017), xviii.