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This sermon contemplates what it means to listen when Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice” within the framework of stability, obedience, and conversion of life as lived with humility found within The Rule of St. Benedict.
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Tags: Always we begin again, conversation morum, conversion of life, Episcopal, Gift of finest wheat, hear my voice, humility, Jesus, John McQuistion II, listen, Mark W Baker, Michah 6:8, mother’s day, My son – listen to him, obediare, obedience, Psalm 121, Rule of Saint Benedict, sermon, sheep, stability, Strength under control, The Transfiguration
This sermon considers how the guiding values found in the expression we belong to one another together with God‘s help we can make one another stronger informs how we, the least likely people, are called to do God‘s work.
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Tags: 10 disciples, Ananias with Saul, bring Thomas to Jesus, Do you love me, Episcopal, feed my sheep, Jesus, Jesus with Peter, Least likely people, listenting to God, sermon, we belong too ne another, we can make one another stronger, with God’s help
This sermon considers how our joy in proclaiming “Alleluia, Christ is Risen, The Lord is Risen, Indeed, Alleluia” is deepened when we hear Thomas’ statement of faith: My Lord and my God.”
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Tags: 10 disciples, Apostle Thomas, believe, Episcopal, Jesus, Johannine Community, joy, missing people, My Lorda and my God, puzzle pieces, Risen Christ, sermon, set your heart on, statement of faith, Thomas, Upper Room
A sermon that reflects on the ancient and current examples of God’s saving deeds in history that links the foot washing act of love by Jesus to how is he his death and resurrection is life-giving when we see and find the Light of the transfigured Christ as the source of strength as Peter did.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: Being the Light of Christ, careful light and darkness images, David Brooks – How to Know a Person, Diminisher, Episcopal, God’s saving deeds in history, Illuminator, Jesus, Jesus know in the light, Judas Iscariot, Peter, sermon, strength, The Foot washing of Christ, The Life-giving of Christ, the Light of Christ, Transfiguration
This sermon is the concluding part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as I muse on how the stories of the Apostles Peter and Paul offer a revelation as to how much God loves us in the cry “I wish I’d paid attention better to God’s holy invitations”
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, believe, Episcopal, fish and nets, for I am a sinful man, God uses least likely people, I can do it myself, I must decrease that he might increase, I wish I’d paid attention better to God’s holy invitations, individualism, Jesus, John the Baptist, Listen to Him, listening, Living the Beatitudes Today, Peter denies Jesus three times, Peter remonstrates Jesus, sermon, Sermon on the Mount, the Resurrected Christ restores Peter, The Transfiguration, total need for God, two ears one mouth, untimely born, We belong to one another, wedding Cana of Galilee, where I set my heart, Yellow Pad Discipline
This sermon is the third part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as we recall the witness of Simeon and Anna at the Presentation of Jesus in the temple during a ritual that sees Mary and Joseph afford but two turtledoves as a thank offering sacrifice.
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Tags: 40 days after Christmas, Anna, baptismal preparation, Episcopal, Feast Presentation, God uses least likely people, in the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus is here for the poor as well as the wealthy, Joseph, Light of Christ, mark of welcome, Mary, Nunc Dimittis, purification, sermon, Simeon, Thanksgiving for birth of child, world that hides in darkness
This sermon is the second part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as we strive for the greater gifts that Saul now Paul recognized after he had his came to himself moment: one that I know from God’s holy invitation to let go the presumptuous sins that sought dominion in my own life.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Body of Christ, breath prayer, Came to himself moment, come and see, do justice, dominion, dutiful, Elder brother, Episcopal, followers of Jesus, God uses least likely people, invitation to see more clearly, invite, Jesus, love kindness, Loving Father, many members, perfectionism, presumptuous sins, Prophet Micah, Psalm 19, rigidity, Saul then Paul, sermon, strive for the greater gifts, take baptism seriously, Walk humble with you God
This sermon is the first part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work with a look at who is in the background at the Wedding at Cana and Paul’s writing concerning the manifestation of the Spirit.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, boy with five loaves and two fish, bright light of class, Charles Hobbes, Confirmation name, Episcopal, faith, feeding of the five thousand, God uses least likely people, Healing, hero, heroine, Ignatius Loyola, interpretation of tongues, invitation to use gifts, Jesuits, Jesus, knowledge, manifestation, prophecy, Saint Francis Xavier, saints, Sarmatian woman at the well, sermon, seven husbands, spiritual gifts, stained glass window, Timepower, tongues, varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, Wedding at Cana, wisdom, working of miracles
My sermon speaks to getting our priorities straight rather than simply writing resolutions by exploring guiding values expressed in the promises made at baptism as found meaningful in prayers and scriptures. I do this in a very personal way by sharing my six key spiritual principles.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: balance, Chares R Hobbs, congruity, Episcopal, Guiding Values, Jesus, Jesus’ baptism, love your neighbor as your self, Micah 6:8 en français, new year’s resolutions, promises made a baptism, sermon, Seven Habits, spiritual principles, Stephen Covey, The Rule of Saint Benedict, Time Power, Unifying Principles
This sermon explores what gift the Magi took with them as they left for their own country as well as what gift does the witness of the Magi continue to offer us.
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Tags: Alan Arkin, do justice, Episcopal, gift, Henry Van Dyke, love kindness, Magi, Martin Sheen, Matthew 31, Micah 6:8, Receive the gift of Jesus, sermon, The Fourth Wiseman, The Other Wiseman, Walk humbly with your God, Walk with integrity, when did we we see you hungry, witness
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