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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 about how grace fell like rain on the Feast of the Ascension during seminary in 1988.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: advocate, Ascension, change, Episcopal, Grace, Grace falling like rain, helium balloons, least expect it, Liminal time, need it most, practical joke, sermon, story that sticks, the Holy Spirit, trust in God, Waiting, we are not alone
The Sermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension (7 Easter Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 8, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: advocate, Ark of the Covenant, Ascension, Comforter, Day of Atonement, Episcopal, Gospel of John, Great High Priest, holy spirit, Jesus, Letter to the Hebrews, Liminal time, Melchizedek, rope, sermon, Tent of Meeting
Sermon – The Sixth Sunday of Easter St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Huntington West Virginia – May 5, 2013 This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: advocate, creator redeemer sanctifier, Episcopal, father son holy spirit, holy spirit, Jack Benny, Jesus, John 14:23-29, mission statement, sermon, Trinity