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Sermon – The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 15, 2023

A sermon placed just after my 50th wedding anniversary where I contemplate what it means to share and model solemn vows such as for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or health, to love and to cherish in a world filled with pain and conflict such as when Jesus told the story of the cast out wedding guest.

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Sermon – The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday – June 4, 2023

A sermon that connects the gift of joy and wonder as an outcome of Holy Baptism with the willingness of a congregation to playfully demonstrate an understanding of the Trinity as Lover, Beloved, and Breath of Love.

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Sermon – The Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 14, 2023

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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Sermon – Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 4, 2022

A sermon that offers a perspective on Holy Baptism grounded in the natural hospitality of living into formation and discipleship when we accept God as the Potter and we are the clay.

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Sermon – The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost – September 17, 2017

Sermon for The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 19 Year A) on the day of the Holy Baptism of Ayden and Zoë preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, September 17, 2017. You…

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Sermon – The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost – June 26, 2016

The Sermon – The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost (The Holy Baptism of Ethan James Casey and the Recognition of Our Graduates) (Proper 8 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – June 26, 2016. This…

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Sermon – The Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost – November 15, 2015

The Sermon – The Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 28 Year B) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – November 15, 2015. Learn more about First Intentional Communion. Connect with the work of Dorothy Law Nolte…

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Sermon – The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost – September 20, 2015

The Sermon – The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 20 Year B) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 20, 2015. The book referenced in the sermon is A Chorus of Innocents: A Sir Robert Carey…

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