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THE SPIRITUAL SURPRISE MAKING VETERANS DAY AND MY COMING TRIP TO NORMANDY ALL THE MORE MEANINGFUL

Posted on November 11, 2025 by billwctcoach

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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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Category: Best of WCTcoach, On Reflection, Stories Tags: Apostle Paul, Armistice Day, Enough, Episcopal, FDR, Four Freedoms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Freedom from fear, Freedom from want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Great War, Jesus, Military Chaplain, Norman Rockwell, Normandy, pilgrimage, Saving Private Ryan, sermon, Thessalonians, Veterans Day, War to end all wars, we’re not going to take this anymore, World War I

Sermon – All Saint’s Sunday – November 1, 2015

Posted on November 1, 2015 by William Carl Thomas

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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.

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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons Tags: All Saints, Confirmation, Episcopal, Invitation, Jesuits, Jesus, Know story, Lazaraus, sermon, Share boldly, St. Francis Xavier

Sermon -The Cost of the Breath of God Sanctioned Freedom (Memorial Day 2011)

Posted on May 28, 2012 by William Carl Thomas

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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

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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons Tags: Acts 17:22-31, Apostle Paul, Decoration Day, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln, Memorial Day