Category: Sermons
A sermon celebrates how the psalms offer clarity when contemplating our response to God’s holy invitation to live and love like Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit as we struggle with the dualistic messages pushed by the world.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: breath prayer, contemplative life, discernment, Doctor of Ministry, Episcopal, holy invitation, Journey through psalms, listening, non-dual practice, Psalm 112, Psalm 121, Psalm 130, Psalm 19:13, Psalm 28:8, Psalm 51, sermon, two ears one mouth, WCT.coach, Yellow Pad Discipline
A sermon that brings the prophetic voice of Micah to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God into conversation with how the Apostle Paul and Ananias exemplify that God uses the least likely people to do God’s work.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Beatitudes, Conversion of Saint Paul, do justice, Episcopal, God’s foolishness, Jesus, love kindness, Micah 6:8, Persecute, Prophet Micah, Saul then Paul, sermon, Sermon on the Mount, stoning of Stephen, Walk humbly with your God, World’s wisdom
A sermon that finds deeper meaning and a pun from a possibly playful Jesus when he calls out to Andrew and Peter while they were casting their nets, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.”
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 37 fishers of, 4 fish for, Apostle Andrew, Apostle Peter, Bishop Brent, called to serve, Collect for Mission, fish for people, fishing, four accounts, great light, How many gospels, Invitation, Jesus, Jesus Arms of Love on the cross, nets, nourishment, one gospel, Prophet Isaiah, pun, sermon, so clothe us in your Spirit, walked in darkness
A sermon that apprehends the already and not yet moment that is the present as we dedicate our heart, mind, imagination, and will to share the reconciling love we’ve found in Jesus Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Already Not Yet, Being of Use, Bishop Brent, end times, faith, heart, Hope, imagination, Jesus Christ, listening, Lord’s Prayer, Love, mind, obedience, Our Father, prayer self-dedication, reconciling love, right relationship, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Thy will be done, will
A sermon about recognizing and then integrating head and heart as we seek the humility to keep our strength control to better hear God’s invitation to live and love like Jesus so that in the power of the Holy Spirit we can help others to do the same.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: Albert Holtz, Apostle Paul, balance, Create in me a clean heart, Episcopal, head and heart, Heart Treasure, humility, humility is strength under control, listening, love received, love shared, Mark W. Baker, mission of reconciliation, obedience, Pharisee, right priorities, Saul to Paul, sermon, Spirituality of Imperfection, Tax Collector
A sermon that speaks to how time spent in the holy order of deacon is a strong foundation for priests and bishops who must be persistent when caring for those without power as ordained leaders will endure suffering in order to carry out their ministry fully.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: bishop, deacon, discernment, Episcopal, ordained leaders, ordination, Persistence, persistent widow, powerless, Priest, sermon, strong foundation as deacon, Unjust judge
A sermon which reminds us that faith which has made you well is about professing and acting on the desire for right relationship with God as found in Micah 6:8 and so evident in the Rule of St. Benedict and the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 10 Lepers, do justice, faith, faith has made you well, John Michael Talbot, leper, love kindness, Micah 6:8, right relationship, sermon, St. Benedict, St. Francis of Assisi, thanksgiving, The Episcopal, Walk Humbly
A sermon that asks if we are in the Great Emergence or the Great Extinction as we are invited by God to guard the good treasure that has been entrusted to us, perhaps with guidance of The Rule of St. Benedict undergirded by the passion of St. Francis of Assisi.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Always we begin again, dark ages, Gregory the Great, guard the good treasure, John McQuiston, Phyllis Tickle, right relationship with God, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, The Episcopal, The Great Emergence, the great extinction, The Great Reformation, The Great Schism, violence, where your heart is your heart will be also
A sermon that offers consequences when ignoring the Apostle Paul’s expression “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” and guidance such as Love that shares is the antidote to the uncertainty of riches with a connection to the “missing” summer lection Luke 12:48.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 1 Timothy 6:6-9, 5 to 10 talent parish, chasm, Consequences, Dives, endurance, Episcopal, faith, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, gentleness, godliness, Guidance, Lazarus, Love, Love that shares is the antidote, Luke 12:48, much is expected, much is required, Parable of the Talents, pursue righteousness, ready to share, sermon, To much has been given, Uncertainty of riches
A sermon that explores how shrewdly Jesus tells a story that demonstrates right relationship with true riches that upends the supposedly affirmed actions of a dishonest manager with the punchline “You cannot serve God and wealthâ€.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: acute, clock, compass, Compass Clock, Create in me a clean heart, Episcopal, God and Wealth, heaven on earth, Psalm 51, punchline, right relationship true riches, right values, sermon, shrewd, Star Trek, Stephen Covey, three level chess, verbal boxing, what is enough