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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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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 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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Tags: abundance, barns, compass and clock, Episcopal, greed, idolatry, Jesus, Principles, right relationship, scarcity, sermon, Stephen Covey, teacher
What Is Enough? A question at the heart of money, wealth, and ice cream!
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Tags: abundance, Apostle Paul, Episcopal, Friendly Ice Cream Shoppe, ice cream, Jesus, money, Pearl of Great Price, Root evil, sermon, Timothy, wealth, what is enough
Sermon for The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 20 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 23, 2018. This my final sermon offered before this wonderful congregation as I retire from…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 13th Dr. Who, abundance, Angel, blessing find you, Death in Paradise, Devil, DI Humphrey Goodman, Education for Ministry, Episcopal, Family Promise, feeding the hungry, Generosity, generous act of giving, Jesus, Leaving sermon, Letter of James, Midsummer Murders, retirement sermon, scarcity, stronger, Thank you, the one you feed, transition, With God's help
Sermon for The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 17 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 2, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Tags: abundance, adultery, avarice, be make haste to be kind, bring forth in us the fruit of good works, claustrophobia, Community, Compassion, deceit, doers of the word, envy, Episcopal, folly, fornication, Generosity, Grace, humility, Jesus, licentiousness, Love, mission, murder, New Bern airport, plane seatback, pride, quick to love, sensitivity, sermon, slander, theft, Vulnerability, wickedness
Sermon for The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 16 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 26, 2018. I mention The Transactional Analysis of Money in my sermon. My sermon can be…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, attitude of thanksgiving, Episcopal, Feed each other, First Intentional Communion, general confession, gleanings of the fields, I am the bread of life, I'm sorry to God, Jesus, Jesus is enough, mission, scarcity, sermon, share love, Stewardship, story difference heaven hell, tithe, transactional analysis, transactional analysis of money
Sermon for The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day (Easter B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – April 1, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, Apostle Paul, Clopas, cross, Easter, Easter Sermon, Empty Tomb, Episcopal, gardener, Jesus, Love, Mary Magdalene, scarcity, transformation, transition
The Sermon – The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Christ Episcopal Church New Bern, North Carolina – August 17, 2014 Theme: May the Blessing of God Almighty find you when you least expect it and need it most. This sermon can…
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Sermon – The Fourth Sunday of Easter St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Huntington West Virginia – April 21, 2013  This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: abundance, Acts 9:36-43, anxiety, Authority, Bombing, Boston Marathon, Dorcas, Episcopal, feed my sheep, Giving blood, Jesus, John 10:22-30, Peter, sermon, Sheep know my voice, Speak plainly, Tabitha, That's the way it is, The Good Shepherd, Voice of Authority, Walter Cronkite
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