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This sermon contemplates how shalom is woven through an image of a rope to guide our understanding of scripture, reason, and tradition especially when it comes to celebrating the Kirkin’ O the Tartan as a mark of koinonia.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Boy Scouts, church, clan scripture, Episcopal, family, fellowship, I used to be a bear, ideal of life intended by God, James Fenhegan, Jesus, Kirkin’ O the Tartan, Koinonia, Mutual Ministry, peace, read mark inwardly digest, reason, sermon, Shalom, the richness and fullness of all that God has to offer, Thessalonians, three-legged stool, tradition, Wood badge
I didn’t realize until just the day before I was to wear my camouflage stole while preaching and leading worship on the Sunday before Veterans Day, that my sermon had a deeper meaning for me.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, On Reflection, Stories
Tags: Apostle Paul, Armistice Day, Enough, Episcopal, FDR, Four Freedoms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Freedom from fear, Freedom from want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Great War, Jesus, Military Chaplain, Norman Rockwell, Normandy, pilgrimage, Saving Private Ryan, sermon, Thessalonians, Veterans Day, War to end all wars, we’re not going to take this anymore, World War I
This sermon wonders as we approach Veterans Day how the words the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians inspire those who find themselves in harm’s way defending what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of during World War Two as freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fearas I prepare for my own pilgrimage to the beaches of Normandy.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Armistice Day, Charles Henry Brent, Egeria, Enough, Episcopal, FDR, Four Freedoms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Freedom from fear, Freedom from want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Great War, inspire, Jesus, Journey to Adulthood, Major League Baseball, Military Chaplain, Norman Rockwell, Normandy, pilgrimage, poppies in Flanders, Santiago de Compestela, Saving Private Ryan, sermon, Thessalonians, Veterans Day, War to end all wars, we’re not going to take this anymore, World War I
This sermon is about not losing heart in a world overwhelmed by what the Apostle Paul calls itching ears as we seek to share, with utmost patience, the love we have found in Jesus Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 55th class reunion, Andrea Wasmer obit, Apostle Paul, attitude of loving kindness, Class of 1970, Compassion, do not lose heart, Episcopal, Horace Greeley High School, itching ears. relationships, Jesus, Listen with the ear of the heart and the mind, Rule of St. Benedict, Scottish blessing, sermon, sermon on the passing of a high school classmate, transactional, Twin Towers
This sermon explores how the habit of saying thank you helps you hold onto the values placed in your compass which strengthen you to withstand the limitations caused by the demands exerted by your clock.
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Category: Sermons, Stewardship
Tags: 10 Lepers, Baptismal promises, Cardinal Virtues, compass and clock, demands, Do a good turn daily, Episcopal, Fortitude, heart, Henrygram, Jesus, limitations, one thank you, Principle Centered Leadership, Prudence, Rev Henry Doyle, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey, Stewardship, Thank you, What’s in your compass, what’s in your pledge card
This sermon wonders if the words the Apostle Paul shared with Timothy could have been part of the moment the slaver John Newton moved from infidel and libertine to eventually become priest and give us the truth of
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Amazing Grace, Apostle Paul, blessing of God find you, Episcopal, epitaph, fool, Glorious things of thee are spoken, How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, Jesus, John Newton, man of violence, sermon, slaver, Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade, Willam Wilberforce, wretch
This sermon looks at what values should be placed in your personal compass such as the Cardinal Virtues of fortitude, justice, temperance, and prudence as well as those shunned by the rich man dressed in purple who found, upon being tormented in Hades when the clock ran out upon his death, that root of evil was, indeed, his love of money.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: and prudence, Apostle Paul, Cardinal Virtues, Compass and the Clock, Dives, endurance, Episcopal, faith, fortitude or courage, gentleness, Gleanings of the field, godliness, Jesus, Justice, Lazarus, Lazarus beggar, Lazarus sores, Love, love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, pledge card, Rich Man, rich man purple, righteousness, sermon, Stephen Covey, Stewardship, temperance, tithe, What’s in your compass
This sermon finds commonality with my story and that of the Apostle Paul’s story as he writes that Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making him an example to those who would come to believe in Jesus for eternal life.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 1st Timothy, Apostle Paul, being an example, Burt Lancaster, Came to himself moment, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Episcopal, Field of Dreams, Jesus, Leo Tolstoy, make me an instrument of your peace, man of violence, Parable of the Loving Father, Parable of the Prodigal Son, Prayer of Saint Francis, Road to Damascus, Saint Augustine, sermon, stoning of Stephen, the loving father and the elder brother, Utmost Patience
This sermon finds a pathway to understanding in the story of the Pearl of Great Price to the assertion of Jesus that none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Bishop Bill Stough, Episcopal, give up all your possessions, Jesus, Jesus loved him, relationship to God, relationship to money, sell all that you have, sermon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Rich Young Ruler, understand relationships
This sermon seeks to listen with deep obedience to Jesus as he teaches that all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted by taking to heart and practice St. Brigid’s Table Grace.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Anam Cara, Celtic Christianity, conversion of life, deep obedience, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Episcopal, Faith seeking understanding, Heretics and Heros: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World, Hinges of History series, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Jesus, listening, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World, obedience, Rule of Saint Benedict, Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, Saint Anslem, Saint Brigid of Kildare, Saint Brigid’s Table Grace, sermon, stability, Strength under control, Synod of Whitby, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Nomads Change the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Thomas Cahill
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