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This sermon intersects the stewardship stories of the Pearl of Great Price and the Rich Young Ruler into one of the outcome of right relationship that unfolds in the love of God found in Jesus Christ.
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Category: Sermons, Stewardship
Tags: Alabama Plan, Bishop Bill Stough, Commitment, Episcopal, Jesus, love of Jesus Christ, Mark 10:17-31, Matthew 13:45-46, Pearl of Great Price, pledge card, Rich Young Ruler, right relationship, sermon, Stewardship, You’re my steward
This sermon ponders what it would have been like in Philippi if the Apostle Paul created a sign with the word “believe” and then added post it notes that began with the word “and.”
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, believe, believe and, crazy wedding gospel, Episcopal, Jesus, Philippians, post-it notes, sermon, Stewardship, Ted Lasso
This sermon reflects on guiding values that support joining the Apostle Paul in pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Always we begin again, Apostle Paul, attitude of loving kindness, Benedictine Practice, Do justice Love Kindness, Episcopal, Franciscan Engagement, Guiding Values, humility, I have nothing to prove, Jesus, John McQuiston II, Micah 6:8, Nashotah House, only holy invitations to offer, Prayer of Saint Francis, presumptuous sins, prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus, Psalm 19:13, sermon, Walk Humbly you’re your God
This sermon hears shalom sung and lived in the mutual ministry of the early church as the Apostle Paul brings forth The Christ Hymn of the Philippians.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Community, Deep Church, encouragement, Episcopal, Holy Baptism, Holy Communion, humility, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Koinonia, Mutal Ministry, nourishment to be shalom, sermon, Shalom, The Christ Hymn of the Philippians
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