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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.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, believe, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Holy Baptism, Jailer, James R Adams, Jesus, Love, obey, promise to follow, sermon, set your heart on, so you think you’re not religious
This sermon considers how our joy in proclaiming “Alleluia, Christ is Risen, The Lord is Risen, Indeed, Alleluia” is deepened when we hear Thomas’ statement of faith: My Lord and my God.”
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 10 disciples, Apostle Thomas, believe, Episcopal, Jesus, Johannine Community, joy, missing people, My Lorda and my God, puzzle pieces, Risen Christ, sermon, set your heart on, statement of faith, Thomas, Upper Room
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”
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, believe, Episcopal, fish and nets, for I am a sinful man, God uses least likely people, I can do it myself, I must decrease that he might increase, I wish I’d paid attention better to God’s holy invitations, individualism, Jesus, John the Baptist, Listen to Him, listening, Living the Beatitudes Today, Peter denies Jesus three times, Peter remonstrates Jesus, sermon, Sermon on the Mount, the Resurrected Christ restores Peter, The Transfiguration, total need for God, two ears one mouth, untimely born, We belong to one another, wedding Cana of Galilee, where I set my heart, Yellow Pad Discipline
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 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 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 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 about the importance of remembering those moments when you realized Jesus walks with you.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, believe, Breaking of the Bread, Cleopas and companion, Coved-19, Episcopal, Grief, Holy Communion, Jesus, relationships, Road to Damascus, Road to Emmaus, sermon, social distancing, your faith story
An Online Communion Liturgy with Sermon about how touching love overcomes abandonment.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: 10 disciples, believe, Coved-19, Disciple Thomas, Episcopal, Grief, Holy Communion, Jesus, Not abandoned, Peace be with you, relationships, sermon, social distancing, tactile