Archives
A sermon that recalls how wearing the mantle of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control remembered in stories about blueberries and ducklings presents love your neighbor as yourself as the outpouring of the fruit of the Spirit.
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Blueberries for Sal, double portion, Elijah, Elisha, Episcopal, faithfulness, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Generosity, gentleness, Jesus, joy, kindness, Lost and Found, Love, love your neighbor, Make Way for Ducklings, mantle, patience, peace, Robert McCloskey, self-control, sermon
A sermon that sees Peter’s Earwig of Anxiety undone as Jesus is transfigured and places an Earwig of Trust in Peter. The hymn Be Thou My Vision becomes our Earwig of Trust as we pray for peace and enter into a devout a holy Lent in the days to come.
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: anxiety, Ash Wednesday, Be thou my vision, Create a clean heart in me, Earwig, Earwig of Anxiety, Earwig of Trust, Earworm, Elijah, Episcopal, Great Litany, James, Jesus, John, Listen to Him, Litany of Penitence, Moses, Peter, Psalm 51, relationship with Jesus, sermon, Transfiguration, trust
A sermon about deep listening in which I tell the story of God calling me to the Deep South to serve in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: angels, blessing least expected, blessing needed most, blessing of God, breath prayer, do justice, Elijah, Episcopal, humility, Jesus, Legion, listening, love kindness, Micah 6:8, predisposed to notice God, quarterback story, sermon, sound sheer silence, walk humbly with God
Sermon for The Feast of the Transfiguration (Transfiguration) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, August 6, 2017. I quoted from James Finlay’s post within Richard Rohr’s daily meditation which was adapted from…
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Center for Action and Contemplation, Elijah, Empty Tomb, Episcopal, James, James Finley, Jesus, Jesus as he really is, John, Love, Moses, Peter, Release the butterflies, Release the hounds, sermon, Transfiguration
Sermon for The Last Sunday After the Epiphany: Celebrating The Transfiguration (Last Epiphany A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, February 26, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: 1999 Toshiba laptop, Elijah, Episcopal, inner strength, James, Jesus, John, joy, Judas Iscariot, Lent, Lenten disciplines, Moses, Peter, sermon, sharing the joy of Jesus, Transfiguration of Jesus, Unexpected gift, Windows 98, Wordperfect 5.1
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…
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Children Learn What They Live, choices, college, decision making, desires of the flesh, Doing laundry, Dorothy Law Nolte, Elijah, Elisha, Episcopal, example, fruits of the Spirit, Galatians, graduates, Holy Baptism, infant, Jesus, sermon, sorting, The Baptismal Covenant
The Sermon – The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost  (Proper 7 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – June 19, 2016. For more information about the Enneagram, start at enneagraminstitute.com. This sermon can…
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Ahab, demons, discernment, downward slope, Elijah, energy, Enneagram, Episcopal, hard work, Healing, Jesus, Jezebel, Legion, listening, sermon, sound of sheer silence, Still small voice, swimming upstream, swine
The Sermon – The Second Sunday After Pentecost (Memorial Day) (Proper 4 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 29, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Armed Forces Day, Baal, blessing, Centurion, Elijah, Episcopal, fire, Gettysburg Address, God's power, greater love lay down one's life, Healing, Irish High King, Jesus, Memorial Day, pizza, Pope, Relationship, sermon, Sign-of-the-cross, St. Patrick, trash-talking, Veteran's Day
The Sermon – The Last Sunday After The Epiphany: Celebrating The Transfiguration (Last Epiphany Year C)Â preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – February 7, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Already Not Yet, Annual Meeting, Body of Christ, Elijah, Episcopal, Get behind me Satan, James, Jesus, John, Law, Matthew 25:31ff, Moses, Peter, Prophets, sermon, Souper Bowl, The Transfiguration, You are the Christ, You are the Messiah
Sermon – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Huntington West Virginia – June 30, 2013  This sermon can viewed at
Read More
Category: Sermons
Tags: Chariots of fire, conversatio morum, Cost of Discipleship, Daily Improvement, Elijah, Elisha, Episcopal, humility, James and John, Jesus, Listening carefully to God and one another, obedience, Readiness, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, Sharing love, stability, Sticking with it, With God's help
WCT.coach