Category: Sermons
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
A sermon that calls us to remember that no matter how far we stray from accepting God’s love, that love is always seeking to restore right relationship with God and one another so that joy may conquer despair.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 9-11-01, belong to one another, Community, Episcopal, Jeremiah was a bulldog, Jesus, Joy conquers despair, lost coin, lost sheep, lost wedding ring, Middletown New Jersey, Prophet Jeremiah, September 11th, sermon, Shalom, Three Dog Night, Twin Towers, widow coin, with God’s help
A sermon that offers a perspective on Holy Baptism grounded in the natural hospitality of living into formation and discipleship when we accept God as the Potter and we are the clay.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Balcony Perspective, Children Learn What They Live, church balcony, clothed in the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, Holy Baptism, Hospitality, Jeremiah, Jesus, memory, Pearl of Great Price, Potter, rector search, Ron Heifetz, saving embrace, sermon, Tertullian
My sermon that celebrates the wisdom and humility that springs from the Anam Cara compassionate presence found in St. Brigid of Kildare’s Table Grace along with a very useful quote from Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: ABC William Temple, Anam Cara, anamchara, Attitude, banquet, Brigid’s Table Grace, compassionate presence, Episcopal, feeding, How the Irish Saved Civilization, humility, Jesus, Mark W. Baker, mission, poor, Right-Relationship, sermon, Service, Soul Friend, St. Brigid, Strength under control, Thomas Cahill
A sermon that finds strength in Psalm 71 as the uncertainty of transition provides confidence and hope when we claim God as creative crag and stronghold.
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Tags: anxiety, chanting, crag and strong hold, earwig of faith, Episcopal, Hebrew hymnal. Psalms, Jesus, Julian of Norwich, keep me safe, medieval monks, psalm 71, rector search, self-dedication, sermon, transition, trust
A sermon (more a summer homily) about how to be prepared to see things hoped for as the light of Christ shines in the darkness with the assurance to reveal things not seen.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: assurance, be prepared, confidence, conviction, Darkness, Dressed for action, Episcopal, faith, fear, Great Vigil of Easter, Jesus, lamps lit, lantern, Letter Hebrews, Light of Christ, new fire, ready, sermon, things hoped for, things not seen, trauma within the triduum
A sermon that explores how greed undoes the right relationship with God’s abundance and one another when the clock supersedes the compass as an instrument of guidance.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, barns, compass and clock, Episcopal, greed, idolatry, Jesus, Principles, right relationship, scarcity, sermon, Stephen Covey, teacher