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This sermon explores how the encounter with Jesus by the blind Bartimeaus breaks through the drudgery of chronos time and reveals an outcome that occasionally seems possible in the haze of kairos time with the help of a spiritual autobiography tool.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: assurance, Blind Bartimeaus, Chronos time, conviction, Episcopal, faith, Hebrews 11:1, Hope, how well can you see your story, Jesus, Job, kiaros time, listening, sermon, spiritual autobiography, things not seen
A sermon that explores how hope brings forth belief and builds faith with a look at the gift the 10 disciples of Jesus gave a distraught Thomas.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 10 disciples, assurance, belief, believe, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, clothe us with your Spirit, conviction, doubt, Easter, Empty Tomb, Episcopal, faith, Grief, hands in love, Hebrews 11:1, Hope, Jesus, Love, Mary Magdalene, sermon, set your heart, share, Thomas, Upper Room
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 proclaims faith as the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen in the amazing grace that moved both Bartimaeus and John Newton to be able to claim “I was blind but now I see.â€
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Amazing Grace, assurance, Bartimaeus, beggar, blindness, conviction, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Hebrews 11, Hope, Jesus, John Newton, Justice, Mercy, orans position, sermon, singing, Woman flow of blood
A sermon that moves through the words faith, grace, love, suffering, endurance, assurance, and hope.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, assurance, character, Communion with Christ, coronavirus, endurance, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Hope, I love you, Letter Hebrews, mask, not seen, search committee, sermon, suffering