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A sermon that looks at why we promise “We will” in support of the newly baptized, especially infants and young children I preached it to the one year old candidate for baptism with hopes that she will one day appreciate the reference to the movie The Godfather..
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Affirmations. Godparents, baptism, believe, Bishop Brent Collect for Mission, Children Learn What They Live, conversation, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, faith, inward grace, Latin baptism rite, outward sign, Prayer of Self-Dedication, promise, Renunciations, sacrament, sermon, set-your-heart, Show and Tell, signature, support newly baptized, The Godfather Movie
A sermon that connects how Cleopas and his companion might have engaged the words “I believe, help my unbelief” (found in Mark 9:24) when meeting the resurrected Jesus on the Road to Emmaus.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: baptism, Cleopas and his companion, Confirmation, Episcopal, Hearts burning within, I believe help my unbelief, Jesus, Known in the breaking of the bread, Resurrection, Road to Emmaus, sermon, The Innkeeper’s Witness
A sermon that finds the courage to know the difference in the wisdom of a modern day prayer that invites release from the jail of inaction in the face of an earthquake as well as the impact of rapidly fired bullets.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 18 year-olds, abuse of power, Action, Apostle Paul, baptism, behind you, being open, believe, bin the broken-hearted, Buffalo, Call, courage, earthquake, email, Episcopal, God’ holy invitations, Good News to oppressed, Jailer, Jesus, liberty to captives, listening, Philippi jail, Prophet Isaiah, rapidly fired bullets, Reihold Neibuhr, release prisoners, serenity prayer, sermon, set your heart, Silas, text, Ulvalde Texas, wisdom, write
A sermon that explores just how hard it is to be open to what God invites us to see in order to set your heart and say “I believe.â€
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, behind you, being open, believe, Episcopal, God’ holy invitations, Jesus, listening, Lydia of Thyatira, purple, sermon, set your heart
A sermon that reminds us, especially during the time of COVID, that we are sealed in the Holy Spirit by Baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: baptism, Beloved, Breath of God, broad shoulder cross, COVID challenges, Epiphany, Episcopal, Ilia Delio, Jesus, Lover, nothing can separate from love, Renewal of Baptismal Vows. listen to him, River Jordan, sermon, simple forehead cross, Transfiguration, Trinity
A sermon that holds exhort and rejoice in tension as we prepare of the coming of Christ by never forgetting and sharing the presence of Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Advent, Affirmation of Jesus as Lord, baptism, Best way to prepare never forget presence of Christ, control our minds, Draw our hearts, Episcopal, Exhortations, fill our imaginations, Gaudete, Glory of God, guide our minds, prayer self-dedication, Prayer St. Francis, Rejoice, Renunciation of Evil, self-dedication, sermon, use us, welfare of God’s people
A sermon that connects the witness of personal story (that of the preacher’s call to priesthood) to how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: ADHD, baptism, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, call to priesthood, Christus Rex, Eldad, Episcopal, Esther, hands in love, Least likely people, Medad, Moses, ordination, Origen, Prayer of Self-Dedication, seminary, sermon, so clothe us in your Spirit, use us we pray, vocation
A sermon that confronts the reality of “I believe, help my unbelief†with a continual commitment to the vows we make at Holy Baptism as we set our hearts on Jesus.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, believe, Body of Christ, Ephesians, Episcopal, greedy, I believe help my unbelief, integration head and heart, Jesus, listening, marriage vows, Matthew 9:24, obediare, obedience, proper 16, renew baptismal vows, renunciations of evil, self-centered, sermon, set my heart, strength, Ted Lasso, think
A sermon grounded in how well the Apostle Paul in Ephesians speaks to our fractured COVID ravaged culture.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, belong to one another, COVID disciplines, craftiness, deceitful scheming, Episcopal, God’s help, humility, in the world, Jesus the head of the body, Letter Ephesians, Love, one another, people’s trickery, presumptuous sins, proper 13, Psalm 19:13, sanctuary, sermon, stronger, truth in love, wear masks, winds of doctrine
My sermon celebrates the good soil that is St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Wilson NC that finds a joyous post-Covid 19 outcome in the building and beyond.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: baptism, bishop’s visit, choir, Communion, Communion with Christ, Confirmation, coronavirus, custom M&M’s, Episcopal, Following Jesus, good soil, imagination, Last Sermon, mask, Matthew 25, packed church, Parable of the 10 Bridesmaids, Parable of the Talents, post-pandemic, Reaffirmation of faith, singing, when did we see you hungry
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