This sermon explores how the promises made at Holy Baptism intersect with the actions the Apostle Paul calls forth from the People of the Way in Romans 12:9-21.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Affirmations at Baptism, Apostle Paul, Baptismal Covenant, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, catechumenate, Episcopal, Great Commandment, Great Commission, Jesus, Mutual Ministry, People of the Way, Renunciations at Baptism, Romans 12, sermon, silence
This sermon explores how we belong to one another as many members with many gifts that, as one body with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17, Apostle Paul, Archbishop Temple, Archie Goodwin, belong to one another, Body Christ, Deep Gladness, Deep Hunger, Discerning Your Spiritual Gifts, discernment, Episcopal, Frederick Beuchner, heroes, heroines, Jesus, Lloyd Edwards, make one another stronger, member, membership, mission of the church, Nero Wolfe, one body many members, Romans 12:1-8, sermon, spiritual gifts, with God’s help
This sermon explores the surprising outcome of a hard conversation when the love of God is involved.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Canaanite Woman, Episcopal, extravagant love of God, God being in the midst of it, hard conversation, Jesus, Jesus and Pilate, Jesus and the thieves on the crosses, Joseph and his brothers, listening, love of God, loving a child, noticing better, outcast Good Samaritan, prayer self-dedication, sermon
This sermon celebrates that you are never alone, especially when you say “I believe,” as we explore the gifts you are given when you least expect them and need them most that unfold upon setting you heart on Jesus as you lock your eyes into his.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 74th birthday, Apostle Peter, believe, Bishop Witcher, call to priesthood, commission on ministry, Episcopal, gifts, Holy Communion, institutional talons, Jesus, least expect it, lock eyes on Jesus, my call to priesthood story, Nashotah House, need it most, Not abandoned, not alone, Notice better, remembering ability, sermon, set your heart on something, setting your heart on Jesus, walking on water, Yes Lord any place you want me to go any thing you want me to do I will do
This sermon celebrates three priests and a bishop as I explore what the Apostle Paul wrote as the close of chapter 8 in his Letter to the Romans: For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Being a believer, Being a disciple, Being a prophet, Being an invitation, Being available, Bob Schwarz, Episcopal, four priests and a bishop, Furman Stough, Jack Lawton, Jesus, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, Patrick Douthitt, Rob Droste, Romans 8;38-39, sermon
This sermon explores how listening helps you sow the extravagant love of God you received from the Sower with insight into the Yellow Pad Discipline and a thank you to a late mentor.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Benedictine Spirituality, conversation morum, conversion of life, Episcopal, Jesus, Listen with the ear of the heart, listening, obedience, Oboedire, sermon, stability, The Rev Peter W Fleming Jr, The Rule of Saint Benedict, two ears one mouth, Yellow Pad Discipline
This sermon reminds us that the tyranny of dependence on the single yoke is undone as we realize independence offers inter-dependence with the invitation to share a double yoke with Jesus and one another.
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Archbishop Temple, burden is light, Declaration of Independence, dependence, dependence independence inter-dependence, double yoke, Episcopal, imagination, independence, inheritors of the Norman Yoke, inter-dependence, Jesus, liberty, Life, life liberty the pursuit of happiness, load of life, Magna Carta, Norman Yoke, Prayer of Self-Dedication, principle centered life, sermon, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, single yoke, St. Francis, Stephen Covey, the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Jefferson, together with God’s help, Yoke easy
In light of our Lord’s teaching on the cost of discipleship, this sermon asks: How do you share love with your family as a follower of Jesus?
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Category: Sermons
Tags: caring, Council of Nicaea, die heretic joke, e Emo Philips, Episcopal, Father Skelly, Father’s Day memory, hard teaching of Jesus, harsh saying of Jesus, Jesus, Jesus hear my prayer, Jesus listen to me, listening, My father, sermon, share love with family, sharing blessings
This sermon reflects on what it means to discover the Holy Invitation that comes so often as the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Abraham, Apostle Paul, being open to God’s holy invitations, character produces hope, endurance produces character, Episcopal, Epistle to the Romans, Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, footprints in the sand, God’s authority, how do you pray, I carried you, Jesus, Letter to the Hebrews, May the blessing of God find you when you least expect it an need it most, Sarah, sermon, suffering produces endurance, the conviction of things not seen, thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, trust in God
This sermon reflects on what it means to shine as the light of Christ as we seek to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: David Brooks, Diminisher, Episcopal, Guidance, I will change your name, Illuminator, Jesus, John Henry Newman, lived in action, not dead but sleeping, Scottish blessing, sermon, spiritual strength in poetry, Stay With Me prayer, woman quietly seeking Jesus, writ on the heart
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