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May the blessing of God find you when you least expect it and need it most.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Ascension, blessing of God least expected, blessing of God needed most, blood drive, Episcopal, giving, Grace, hemolytic anemia, receiving, sermon, steroids, Stewardship, transfusion
Sermon for The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 7 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – June 24, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Bartlett's quotations, blessing least expected needed most, called to be faithful, Corinthians, David and Philistine, disciples, Episcopal, Jesus, Mother Theresa, Peace be still, Peter, Samaritan woman, sermon, Windstorm, woman with hemorrhage, Zacchaeus
Sermon for The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 6 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – June 16, 2018 (at the 5:30 liturgy on the eve of Sunday, June 17, 2018. My…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Episcopal, God chooses least likely, Jesse, Jesus, King David, listening to God, Mustard Seed, Prayer of discernment, priest known only to God, Prophet Samuel, sermon, succession process
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
Sermon for The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 22 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, October 8, 2017. The sermon can be read by clicking this link. This sermon can…
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Calico Fair, Episcopal, Gun violence, hazards of our existence, hinge of hope, Hope, hurricanes, Jesus, Las Vegas shooter, my world has grown cold and is without hope, not sorrowing as without hope, Paschal Candle, prize upward call in Christ Jesus, pure evil, sermon
Sermon for The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 21 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, October 1, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Attitude, Episcopal, humility, hurricanes, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Love, make one another stronger, Mutual Ministry, peace, Philippians, Puerto Rico, sermon, Shalom, sharing, South Florida, Texas, We belong to one another
Sermon for The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 17 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, September 3, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Charlottesville, Community, Episcopal, Facebook, Hate what is evil, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Judy Garland, Love, Monmouth County, Movie: The Clock, New Orleans, New York City, Robert Walker, sermon, soul, Superstorm Sandy
Sermon for The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 16 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, August 27, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, arrogance, becoming your gift to God, build, church, do not conform to the world, Episcopal, Jesus, midwives, our help is in the name of the Lord, pharaoh who knew not Joseph, Power, Puah, rock, sermon, Shipharah, Simon Peter, substance
Sermon for The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 9 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, July 9, 2017. I referenced the book So You Think You’re Not Religious?: A Thinking…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Amazing Grace, angels, Apostle Paul, believe, Episcopal, Faithless generation, For my yoke is easy and my burden is light, I believe help my unbelief, James R Adams, Jesus, sermon, set your heart, So You Think You're Not Religious, testimony, wretched
Sermon for The Fifth Sunday of Easter (5 Easter Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, May 14, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Philip, Darkness, Deacon Philip, Deacon Stephen, Elder brother, Episcopal, foreshadow, Jesus, Light, Parable Loving Father, Parable Prodigal Son, proclaim light, Saul, sermon, share the light, Stephen martyr, Stephen's sermon, stoning of Stephen