Category: Sermons
This sermon is the first part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work with a look at who is in the background at the Wedding at Cana and Paul’s writing concerning the manifestation of the Spirit.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, boy with five loaves and two fish, bright light of class, Charles Hobbes, Confirmation name, Episcopal, faith, feeding of the five thousand, God uses least likely people, Healing, hero, heroine, Ignatius Loyola, interpretation of tongues, invitation to use gifts, Jesuits, Jesus, knowledge, manifestation, prophecy, Saint Francis Xavier, saints, Sarmatian woman at the well, sermon, seven husbands, spiritual gifts, stained glass window, Timepower, tongues, varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, Wedding at Cana, wisdom, working of miracles
My sermon speaks to getting our priorities straight rather than simply writing resolutions by exploring guiding values expressed in the promises made at baptism as found meaningful in prayers and scriptures. I do this in a very personal way by sharing my six key spiritual principles.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: balance, Chares R Hobbs, congruity, Episcopal, Guiding Values, Jesus, Jesus’ baptism, love your neighbor as your self, Micah 6:8 en français, new year’s resolutions, promises made a baptism, sermon, Seven Habits, spiritual principles, Stephen Covey, The Rule of Saint Benedict, Time Power, Unifying Principles
This sermon explores what gift the Magi took with them as they left for their own country as well as what gift does the witness of the Magi continue to offer us.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Alan Arkin, do justice, Episcopal, gift, Henry Van Dyke, love kindness, Magi, Martin Sheen, Matthew 31, Micah 6:8, Receive the gift of Jesus, sermon, The Fourth Wiseman, The Other Wiseman, Walk humbly with your God, Walk with integrity, when did we we see you hungry, witness
This sermon shares a story I wrote called “The Innkeepers Witness” offered using this fictional character to remind us during Advent that the best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ. Henry Van Dyke’s The Other Wiseman inspired how I wove the innkeeper’s story into appropriate scripture settings. There’s a musical setting as well which can be found under the Deep Church Tab.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: angels, best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ, breaking of bread, bright light, Cleopas and companion, crucifixion, Episcopal, feeding 5000, first coming, Henry Van Dyke, Innkeeper, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Road to Emmaus, second coming, sermon, Share the love found in Jesus, shepherds, storyteller, The Innkeeper’s Witness, The Other Wiseman, wedding Cana of Galilee, witness
This sermon takes a look at the first of three acts launched in Advent as we re-enter the time of God’s initiative in Jesus Christ and remember that the best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: act one Christmas, Act Three Easter, Act Three Resurrection, Act Two Crucifixion, Act Two Good Friday, best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ, change, Episcopal, Ewoks, First Sunday of Advent, God’s Initiative, humblest of forms, incarnation, Jesus, new liturgical year, Our Response, sermon, Share the love found in Jesus, Star Wars, Story of Jesus, Story People of God, the cute baby Jesus, three act play, three acts
This sermon begs the question who is a king like no other and how that king invites us to remember with humility and act with kindness as we share a great thanksgiving.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: a king like no other, Always we begin again, Aslan, Christ the King Sunday scriptures, CS Lewis, do justice, Episcopal, Good Friday, Great Thanksgiving, Harvest Home, heart of gratitude, Holy Eucharist, Holy Week, Jesus, Jesus serves, Jesus washes feet, John McQuiston II, king of the jews, love kindness, Mandatum, Maundy Thursday, Micah 6:8, Pilate, Remembrance as reconnection, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, Sunday of the Passion, Walk humbly with your God
This sermon explores God’s initiative in Jesus Christ and our response as we move through scriptures about the end times and prepare for the new beginnings that unfold, once again, during Advent and Christmas.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: birth pangs, Christ the King Sunday scriptures, Chronos time, church architecture, earthquakes, embracing, end times, endurance, Episcopal, famine, finger pointing, God’s initiative our response, Jesus, Kairos time, king of the jews, lectionary cycle, listening better, Parable of the Talents, Pilate, sermon, temple, thief who repented, thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, wake-up call, when did we see you hungry, when will Jesus come again
This sermon explores the total commitment of the poor widow who gave all that she had and begs the question how did you learn about money as well as how does your example influence the next generation.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Episcopal, Eric Berne, First Intentional Communion, Jesus, percentage, proportional giving, sermon, Stewardship, transactional analysis, transactional analysis of money, trust, widow two coins
This sermon considers how celebrating All Saints day helps prepare us to talk turkey on Thanksgiving day.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: All Saints Day, All Souls Day, All will be well - all will be well - in all manner of things all will be well, Anxious times, Black Death, command or invitation, did Jesus laugh, doing theology, Episcopal, God’s love permeates, how many angels dance on a pin, immanent, Listening carefully to God and one another, Name of the Rose book, Not abandoned, question of Lazarus, raise Lazarus from the dead, Saint Julian of Norwich, Sean Connery, sermon, Talk turkey, thanksgiving, tone of voice, transcendent, Umberto Eco
This sermon explores how the encounter with Jesus by the blind Bartimeaus breaks through the drudgery of chronos time and reveals an outcome that occasionally seems possible in the haze of kairos time with the help of a spiritual autobiography tool.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: assurance, Blind Bartimeaus, Chronos time, conviction, Episcopal, faith, Hebrews 11:1, Hope, how well can you see your story, Jesus, Job, kiaros time, listening, sermon, spiritual autobiography, things not seen
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