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This sermon takes a fluid memory that often seems more like a dream but is really an invitation to let doctrine be a door that opens to the embrace the love that is the Trinity as we experience and share God as Lover, Beloved, and Breath of Love.
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Tags: Beloved, Breath of Love, creator redeemer sanctifier, Deep Church, Doctrine, Episcopal, father son holy spirit, fluid memory, lake, Love, Lover, Lover Beloved Breath of Love, Preface for Trinity Sunday, sermon, three fading ripples, tossed rocks, Trinity Sunday, water
A sermon that explores the tension found in the voices of order and prophecy as we strive to deeply listen to God’s invitation to live and love like Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to help others to do the same.
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Tags: Chronos time, D-Day landings, David Bread of Presence, Deep Church, Discipleship, Eli and Samuel, Episcopal, hearing God through one another, Invitation, Jesus, Jesus clearly shared love, just enough order so as not to suffocate, Kairos time, listening, Middle Way, military, obedience, obedire, Prophet Samuel, Saving Private Ryan, sermon, Sharing love, Spirit of Order, Spirit of Prophecy, tension, two ears one mouth
A sermon that closes a 12 week guest preaching relationship by looking at how the congregation gave the preacher loving space that helped all hear and learn more deeply of God’s inviting love.
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Tags: Boy Scout Law, Boy Scout Oath, Deep Church, Episcopal, Jesus, listening, love God, love neighbor, obediare, obedience, Prayer of Self-Dedication, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, Shema
Sermon for The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday (Pentecost Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, June 4, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Baptismal Covenant, Deep Church, Education for Ministry, EfM, Episcopal, holy spirit, Jesus, language, Living Our Baptismal Covenant, Love, Pentecost, sermon, Tower of Babel, what church language do you speak
The Sermon – The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 17 Year B) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 30, 2015. The audio is now clear thanks to a new recording/receiving microphone. This sermon can…
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Tags: Beloved Community, Deep Church, Episcopal, Family Promise, God, Jesus, Love, Martin Luther King, My Beloved, sermon, Sonnet