Category: Sermons


Sermon – The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 10, 2023

A sermon that moves through personal story and the importance of Jesus centered principles expressed in the Benedictine expression “Listening with the Ear of the Heart” as essential to Living as Shalom.

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Sermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 3, 2023

A sermon that begins a nine week series entitled Living as Shalom with connections to peace, koinonia, justice, mercy, and grace, as we find Shalom at the heart of the mission of the Church to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.

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Sermon – The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost – July 30, 2023

A sermon that explores what it means to sell all that you have only to discover that such a journey in faith offers you more than you could ask or imagine.

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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – July 16, 2023

A sermon that reflects on the how the seeds of love sown by God again and again and again in what appears to be a wasteful manner are really the abundant invitation to discover that the light of God’s love shines as the catching force in and through the most surprising of times, places and persons.

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Sermon – The Second Sunday after Pentecost – June 11, 2023

A sermon that reflects on our response to God’s initiative in Jesus Christ as we listen with the ear of the heart and strive to live this life with an attitude of loving kindness.

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Sermon – The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday – June 4, 2023

A sermon that connects the gift of joy and wonder as an outcome of Holy Baptism with the willingness of a congregation to playfully demonstrate an understanding of the Trinity as Lover, Beloved, and Breath of Love.

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Sermon – The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday – May 28, 2023

A sermon that imagines puzzle pieces dancing in the Pentecost tongues of fire as the promised Holy Spirit guides the connections that make the Body of Christ Jigsaw Puzzle: Pentecost Edition possible.

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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension – May 21, 2023

A sermon that explores the promise to receive the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most that often feels like grace falling like rain.

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Sermon – The Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 14, 2023

A sermon that looks at why we promise “We will” in support of the newly baptized, especially infants and young children I preached it to the one year old candidate for baptism with hopes that she will one day appreciate the reference to the movie The Godfather..

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Sermon – The Fifth Sunday of Easter – May 7, 2023

A sermon that looks at how doing math with Jesus finds a formula in the Prayer of Self-Dedication that gives strength in times of anguish as an action oriented thought and prayer.

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