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A sermon that builds on the six defining questions at Holy Baptism with five defining promises that breathe life into the tension between faith and works as remember and celebrate, with thanksgiving and hope, the mission which God gave on this hill in Seven Springs North Carolina 154 years ago.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Baptismal Covenant Promises, build value system, embrace, Episcopal, faith, founding, Jesus, Letter from James, loving your neighbor as yourself, mission, Proverbs 22:22, respond to God’s Holy Invitations, sermon, Seven Springs NC, St. Brigid’s Table Grace, Syrophoenician woman, tension, The Poor, works
Sermon for The Sixth Sunday of Easter (6 Easter B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 6, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abide in my love, baptism, Bishop Brent, chosen, embrace, Episcopal, give life for another, holy spirit, hubris, Jesus died for all, love one another, priestly, scandal of particularity, sermon
Sermon for The Third Sunday of Easter (3 Easter B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – April 15, 2018. Click on First Intentional Communion to learn more about this teaching and liturgy…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: baptism, Casper the friendly ghost, embrace, Episcopal, First Intentional Communion, food, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, sermon, Synoptic Gospels
Sermon for The Second Sunday of Easter (Second Easter Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, April 23, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Thomas, Chocolate Sunday, Doubting Thomas, embrace, Episcopal, Gospel of John, Grief, Low Sunday, mountaintop experience, My Lord and my God, Second Sunday of Easter, sent forth, sermon
The Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 18 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 4, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Best Years of Our Lives, Clay, embrace, Episcopal, golf, hands, Harold Russell, ho hands, Homer Parrish, Jeremiah, Jesus, labor, labor day, Love, movie Ghost, Potter, prosthetic, reaching forth our hands in love, recreate, sermon, tennis, total need for God