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I didn’t realize until just the day before I was to wear my camouflage stole while preaching and leading worship on the Sunday before Veterans Day, that my sermon had a deeper meaning for me.
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Sermon – The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost – October 18, 2026
This sermon intersects the stewardship stories of the Pearl of Great Price and the Rich Young Ruler into one of the outcome of right relationship that unfolds in the love of God found in Jesus Christ.
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Sermon – The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 11, 2026
This sermon ponders what it would have been like in Philippi if the Apostle Paul created a sign with the word “believe” and then added post it notes that began with the word “and.”
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Sermon – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 4, 2026
This sermon reflects on guiding values that support joining the Apostle Paul in pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Sermon – The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 27, 2026
This sermon hears shalom sung and lived in the mutual ministry of the early church as the Apostle Paul brings forth The Christ Hymn of the Philippians.
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Sermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 30, 2026
This sermon explores how the promises made at Holy Baptism intersect with the actions the Apostle Paul calls forth from the People of the Way in Romans 12:9-21.
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Sermon – The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 23, 2026
This sermon explores how we belong to one another as many members with many gifts that, as one body with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.
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Sermon – The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – August 16, 2026
This sermon explores the surprising outcome of a hard conversation when the love of God is involved.
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Sermon – The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – August 9, 2026
This sermon celebrates that you are never alone, especially when you say “I believe,” as we explore the gifts you are given when you least expect them and need them most that unfold upon setting you heart on Jesus as you lock your eyes into his.
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Sermon – The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost – July 26, 2026
This sermon celebrates three priests and a bishop as I explore what the Apostle Paul wrote as the close of chapter 8 in his Letter to the Romans: For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – July 12, 2026
This sermon explores how listening helps you sow the extravagant love of God you received from the Sower with insight into the Yellow Pad Discipline and a thank you to a late mentor.
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W Thomas – The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon – Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Wilmington NC – 07-05-26
This sermon reminds us that the tyranny of dependence on the single yoke is undone as we realize independence offers inter-dependence with the invitation to share a double yoke with Jesus and one another.
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Sermon – The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost – June 21, 2026
In light of our Lord’s teaching on the cost of discipleship, this sermon asks: How do you share love with your family as a follower of Jesus?
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Sermon – The Third Sunday after Pentecost – June 14, 2026
This sermon reflects on what it means to discover the Holy Invitation that comes so often as the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most.
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How Well Can You See Your Story
A practice for being on the dance floor while observing action from the balcony.
On Reflection
We don’t learn from experience; we learn from reflection on experience. Exploring listening through essays and videos.
Deep Church
Resources to support a group of people as they gather with a willing expectation intimately to share the love of God.
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Sermon – All Saint’s Sunday – November 1, 2015
This All Saints Day Sermon from 12 years ago is still relevant as we are called to join the saints and know our story and live it boldly as I republish it on All Saints Day, November 1, 2026.
Sermon -The Cost of the Breath of God Sanctioned Freedom (Memorial Day 2011)
Text of the sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 29, 2011 The Cost of the Breath of God Sanctioned Freedom By The Very Reverend William Carl Thomas, Rector, Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
Being Of Use
A new website, BeingOfUse.net is in development. Look to this website to share that which is useful from many persons dedicated to living the Prayer of Self-Dedication.