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Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21) – September 28, 2025
This sermon looks at what values should be placed in your personal compass such as the Cardinal Virtues of fortitude, justice, temperance, and prudence as well as those shunned by the rich man dressed in purple who found, upon being tormented in Hades when the clock ran out upon his death, that root of evil was, indeed, his love of money.
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This sermon finds commonality with my story and that of the Apostle Paul’s story as he writes that Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making him an example to those who would come to believe in Jesus for eternal life.
Read MoreSermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension – June 1, 2025
This sermon reminds us that Holy Baptism recalls what it means to believe as we set our heart on Jesus, put our whole trust in his grace and love, as we promise to follow and obey him as our Lord.
Read MoreSermon – The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany – February 9, 2025
This sermon is the concluding part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as I muse on how the stories of the Apostles Peter and Paul offer a revelation as to how much God loves us in the cry “I wish I’d paid attention better to God’s holy invitations”
Read MoreSermon – The Third Sunday after the Epiphany – January 26, 2025
This sermon is the second part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as we strive for the greater gifts that Saul now Paul recognized after he had his came to himself moment: one that I know from God’s holy invitation to let go the presumptuous sins that sought dominion in my own life.
Read MoreSermon – The Second Sunday after the Epiphany – January 19, 2025
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.
Read MoreSermon – The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 22, 2024
This sermon explores the guiding values in the expression “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger” through the lens of dependence, independence, and inter-dependence.
Read MoreSermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 25, 2024
A sermon that considers the discipline needed to find the strength and resources to stay the course when choosing to embrace the call the follow Jesus.
Read MoreSermon – The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 15, 2023
A sermon placed just after my 50th wedding anniversary where I contemplate what it means to share and model solemn vows such as for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or health, to love and to cherish in a world filled with pain and conflict such as when Jesus told the story of the cast out wedding guest.
Read MoreSermon – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 8, 2023
A sermon that sees the Apostle Paul’s statement “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus” as a caution rather than an exhortation when shared with Psalm 19’s “Above all, keep your servant from presumptuous sins.”
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