Category: Sermons
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: Episcopal, Guiding Principles, Jesus, John McQuiston II, listening with the ear of the heart, living as shalom, love your neighbor, peace, Rule of St. Benedict, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Shalom, The Passover
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, Episcopal, Grace, Justice, Koinonia, Mercy, peace, restorative justice, retributive justice, sermon, Shalom, stoning of Stephen, wooden spoon
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: Episcopal, Jesus loved him, Mark 10:17-27, my story, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, off the bible stage, Pearl of Great Price, Relationship, Rich Young Ruler, sermon, Stewardship, trust, trust in God
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, Amazon Prime Week, awesome, catching force, Episcopal, God’s initiative our response, good soil, Grace, Huge, Jesus, Jesus math, John Henry Newman, linear gospel, Parable, path, rocky ground, seeds, sermon, shine as light to others, sower, Stay With Me, sympathetic influence, thorns
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: Always we begin again, Apostle Paul, attitude of loving kindness, Compassion, Ear of the heart, Episcopal, Get out of your head, head and heart, Jesus, John McQuiston II, listening, Mercy, Prophet Amos, Prophet Hosea, Prophet Micah, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: children learn what they life, creator redeemer sanctifier, Doctrine, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, father son holy spirit, fill our imaginations, gift of joy and wonder, Holy Baptism, Ilia Delio, joy conquer despair, lake, Lover Beloved Breath of Love, playfulness, sermon, three fading ripples, tossed rocks, Trinity Sunday, water
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: 50 Days, Body of Christ Jigsaw: Pentecost Edition, Breathes the Holy Spirit, connections, Descent of the Holy Spirit, Episcopal, gifts of the Spirit, Jesus, Jigsaw puzzles, Kingdom of God on earth as on heaven, languages, Lord’s Prayer, make one another stronger, Our Father, Pentecost, puzzle pieces, relationship with God, sermon, the Ascension, Tongues of Fire, Tower Babel, We belong to one another, with God’s help
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: blessing of God, chapel prank, Chris Agnew, Episcopal, Grace like rain, Gracious rain, Jesus, Least expected, Liminal time, Nashotah House, need it most, Pentecost, Psalm 68:9, seminary, sermon, the Ascension
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: Affirmations. Godparents, baptism, believe, Bishop Brent Collect for Mission, Children Learn What They Live, conversation, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, faith, inward grace, Latin baptism rite, outward sign, Prayer of Self-Dedication, promise, Renunciations, sacrament, sermon, set-your-heart, Show and Tell, signature, support newly baptized, The Godfather Movie
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: ABC William Temple, Allen Texas, anguish, control will, do the math, doing math with Jesus, draw hearts, Episcopal, fill imagination, find strength, greater things, guide minds, Jesus, more than thoughts and prayers, Philip, Prayer of Self-Dedication, sermon, shooter, welfare of God’s people