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Counter-Intuitive Living

We're Blind, But We Can All See!
Fr. Allen Doerksen
Fr. Allen Doerksen
Priest
March 22, 2020
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Reference

John 9: 1-41 and Psalm 23

Sermon Notes

  • Lent 4 Home Prayers Service (During Covid 19 pandemic).pdf
  • Sermon on John 9,1-41 2020.pdf
Counter-Intuitive Living

John's Gospel presents us with so many brilliant images, so many mystical insights and challenges, and it often does so through paradoxical stories and events.  This week's lengthy reading from John 9 is no exception.  In my devotional, I try to link the paradoxical nature of the blind man's and the pharisees' encounter with Jesus to some of the paradoxical behaviour called for during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Lent 2020

Breathing With God

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Lent 2020
Ezekiel 37: 1 - 14, John 11
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March 29, 2020
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We're Blind, But We Can All See!
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