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The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – October 17, 2021

Posted on October 17, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

A sermon that hears Jesus proclaiming “I came not to be served but to serve” as a life giving epitaph with the a story bringing someone a cup of coffee.

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The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon (The Pearl of Great Price) – October 3, 2021

Posted on October 3, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon featuring the Pearl of Great Price: a story about the surprising Good News that unfolds when you commit to sell all that you have and discover your real role was always that of God’s steward.

Category: Sermons, Stewardship Tags: Apostolic Action, aspirations, Commitment, Discipleship, Episcopal, integrity, Jesus loved him, living with integrity, manager, Mark 10:17-31, Matthew 13:34-45, Outcome, Pearl of Great Price, Principles, relationship to God and money, Rich Young Ruler, sell all that you have, sermon, Stewardship, You are my steward

The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – September 26, 2021

Posted on September 26, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that connects the witness of personal story (that of the preacher’s call to priesthood) to how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work.

Category: Sermons Tags: ADHD, baptism, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, call to priesthood, Christus Rex, Eldad, Episcopal, Esther, hands in love, Least likely people, Medad, Moses, ordination, Origen, Prayer of Self-Dedication, seminary, sermon, so clothe us in your Spirit, use us we pray, vocation

The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – September 19, 2021

Posted on September 19, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that links the deep meaning of shalom to embracing by word and action this statement: “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.”

Category: Sermons Tags: Capable Wife, children, Community, confronting the greatest, Episcopal, humility, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Koinonia, Mutual Ministry, Ordination of Women, peace, power over, power with, sermon, Servanthood, Shalom, violin

The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – September 12, 2021

Posted on September 13, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that confronts presumptuous sins, untamed tongues, and the arrogance of opinion with a call to humility and the deep spirituality of the Prayer attributed to St. Francis.

Category: Sermons Tags: 9+11=20, 9+12=21, Academia, Arrogance of Opinion, Community of Hope, Episcopal, humility, James 3:1-12, joy conquer despair, Middletown NJ, Prayer attributed to St. Francis, presumptuous sins, Psalm 19:13, seminary, sermon, Untamed tongue

The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – September 5, 2021

Posted on September 5, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that connects us to Jesus and his very human struggle to hear and respond to the voices of outsiders as we learn to live a prayer of self-dedication.

Category: Sermons Tags: Ash Wednesday, Canaanite Woman, change behavior, Creator Redemeer Sanctifier, Episcopal, father son holy spirit, Ilia Delio, Jesus, labor day, language, Lover Beloved Breath of Love, Psalm 51, Richard Rohr, sermon, Syrophoenician woman, Trinitarian formula, Trinity

The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – August 29, 2021

Posted on August 29, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that ponders how well we can stay open to God’s invitations to be hearers and doers of the word through a visible practice that connects with how deep and broad is the love found on the transformed cross.

Category: Sermons Tags: an open posture, Arms of love, be quick to listen, Episcopal, God’s invitations, hardwood of the cross, hearer and doer, Jesus, Letter of James, no blinders, sermon, share love, so clothed in the Spirit, spiritual practice, Transfiguration

The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – August 22, 2021

Posted on August 22, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that confronts the reality of “I believe, help my unbelief” with a continual commitment to the vows we make at Holy Baptism as we set our hearts on Jesus.

Category: Sermons Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, believe, Body of Christ, Ephesians, Episcopal, greedy, I believe help my unbelief, integration head and heart, Jesus, listening, marriage vows, Matthew 9:24, obediare, obedience, proper 16, renew baptismal vows, renunciations of evil, self-centered, sermon, set my heart, strength, Ted Lasso, think