Category: Sermons
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
A sermon that speaks to the balance necessary between judging and perceiving when we are invited by Jesus to join Mary and Martha and listen deeply.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: balance, Be still, distraction, energy, Episcopal, focus, INTJ, introvert-extrovert, intuitive-sensate, Jesus, judging-perceiving, listen deeply, listen with the ear of the hear, Mary and Martha, Myers-Briggs, relationship with Jesus, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, thinking-feeling
A sermon that recalls how wearing the mantle of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control remembered in stories about blueberries and ducklings presents love your neighbor as yourself as the outpouring of the fruit of the Spirit.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Blueberries for Sal, double portion, Elijah, Elisha, Episcopal, faithfulness, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Generosity, gentleness, Jesus, joy, kindness, Lost and Found, Love, love your neighbor, Make Way for Ducklings, mantle, patience, peace, Robert McCloskey, self-control, sermon
A sermon that use the three strands in a rope to demonstrate the power of the relationships that is the Trinity: Lover, Beloved, Breath of Love.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Anglican Way, Beloved, Beloved Community, Boy Scouts, Breath of Love, Commissioning, creator redeemer sanctifier, Doctrine, Episcopal, father son holy spirit, Franciscans, Glory Ridge, God’s Handiwork, ideal community, Ilia Delio, Lover, Middle Way, relationships, ripples, rocks, rope, sermon, Trinity, Trinity Sunday, water, Woodbadge training
A sermon that hears the tongues of fire that descend on Pentecost as God’s holy universal translator, undoing the quest for earthly power found in the Tower of Babel into the promised loving, life-giving Power of the Holy Spirit.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: advocate, Comforter, communicate, Episcopal, God’s holy universal translator, holy spirit, Jesus, language, life-giving, listen with the ear of your heart, loving, math lesson, Peter, Philip, Power of the Holy Spirit, quiet, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, still, Tower of Babel, universal translator
A sermon that finds the courage to know the difference in the wisdom of a modern day prayer that invites release from the jail of inaction in the face of an earthquake as well as the impact of rapidly fired bullets.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 18 year-olds, abuse of power, Action, Apostle Paul, baptism, behind you, being open, believe, bin the broken-hearted, Buffalo, Call, courage, earthquake, email, Episcopal, God’ holy invitations, Good News to oppressed, Jailer, Jesus, liberty to captives, listening, Philippi jail, Prophet Isaiah, rapidly fired bullets, Reihold Neibuhr, release prisoners, serenity prayer, sermon, set your heart, Silas, text, Ulvalde Texas, wisdom, write
A sermon that explores just how hard it is to be open to what God invites us to see in order to set your heart and say “I believe.â€
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, behind you, being open, believe, Episcopal, God’ holy invitations, Jesus, listening, Lydia of Thyatira, purple, sermon, set your heart
A sermon that reflects on how people remembered but in the background are as essential to sharing the reconciling love of Jesus Christ as are the apostles Peter and Paul.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Ananias, background, Episcopal, favored of the LORD, fish, Identity, Jesus, least expected needed most, least likely, Paul, Peter, reconciling love, Saul, scales drop, see clearly, sermon, shame
A sermon that holds in conversation grief, power, and compassion with the challenge faced by the ten to return with Thomas to meet the risen Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: commission on ministry, Compassion, Doubting Thomas, Episcopal, handling grief, handling power, handling power with compassion, hesed, Jesus, My Lord and my God, ordination, pneuma, Ruach, sermon, statement of faith