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This sermon explores God’s initiative in Jesus Christ and our response as we move through scriptures about the end times and prepare for the new beginnings that unfold, once again, during Advent and Christmas.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: birth pangs, Christ the King Sunday scriptures, Chronos time, church architecture, earthquakes, embracing, end times, endurance, Episcopal, famine, finger pointing, God’s initiative our response, Jesus, Kairos time, king of the jews, lectionary cycle, listening better, Parable of the Talents, Pilate, sermon, temple, thief who repented, thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, wake-up call, when did we see you hungry, when will Jesus come again
This sermon explores the total commitment of the poor widow who gave all that she had and begs the question how did you learn about money as well as how does your example influence the next generation.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Episcopal, Eric Berne, First Intentional Communion, Jesus, percentage, proportional giving, sermon, Stewardship, transactional analysis, transactional analysis of money, trust, widow two coins
This sermon considers how celebrating All Saints day helps prepare us to talk turkey on Thanksgiving day.
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Tags: All Saints Day, All Souls Day, All will be well - all will be well - in all manner of things all will be well, Anxious times, Black Death, command or invitation, did Jesus laugh, doing theology, Episcopal, God’s love permeates, how many angels dance on a pin, immanent, Listening carefully to God and one another, Name of the Rose book, Not abandoned, question of Lazarus, raise Lazarus from the dead, Saint Julian of Norwich, Sean Connery, sermon, Talk turkey, thanksgiving, tone of voice, transcendent, Umberto Eco
This sermon explores how the encounter with Jesus by the blind Bartimeaus breaks through the drudgery of chronos time and reveals an outcome that occasionally seems possible in the haze of kairos time with the help of a spiritual autobiography tool.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: assurance, Blind Bartimeaus, Chronos time, conviction, Episcopal, faith, Hebrews 11:1, Hope, how well can you see your story, Jesus, Job, kiaros time, listening, sermon, spiritual autobiography, things not seen
This sermon explores how servant-leadership and a cup of coffee is at the heart of the response of Jesus to the claims for power by his disciples then and now.
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Tags: Apostolic Action, Christian Formation, Commitment, commitment outcome, cup of coffee with saucer, Discipleship, Episcopal, evangelism, James and John, Jesus, Jesus not be served but to serve, Jesus responds to the claims for power by his disciples then and now, righteous relationship, Robert K. Greenleaf, sermon, Servant-Leadership, share love, Stewardship, Worship
This sermon explores what does it mean to be committed when you sell all that you have to follow Jesus only to discover that love invites a righteousness relationship as the story the Pearl of Great Price unfolds.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostolic Action, Christian Formation, Commitment, commitment outcome, Discipleship, Episcopal, evangelism, Jesus, Matthew 13, Pearl of Great Price, Rich Young Ruler, righteous relationship, sell all that you have, sermon, Stewardship, the money question, Worship
This sermon ponders how integrity is passed on from generation to generation as we remember that children learn what they live.
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Tags: all have value, all have worth, Chattel, children, Episcopal, essence of integrity, Generation to Generation, integrity in Psalm 26, integrity in the heart, Jesus, Jesus and divorce, Job’s integrity, listen carefully to Jesus, sermon, set of principles, Shalom, two ears one mouth, what guides you lives in your heart
This sermon looks deeply at Shalom as the word that expresses to one another the wish for the richness and fullness of all that God has to offer and a method to listen to God for such richness and fullness.
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Tags: Episcopal, Haman, James Fenhagen, Jesus, Jesus on the cross, Justice, kindness, Listening for God’s holy invitations, Mercy, Micah 6:8, Mordecai, Mutual Ministry, orans position, peace, Queen Esther, responding to God’s holy invitations, restorative justice, retributive justice, sermon, Shalom, the peace that passes understanding
This sermon explores the guiding values in the expression “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger” through the lens of dependence, independence, and inter-dependence.
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Tags: and inter-dependence, Apostle Paul, circle, Community, corporate ladder of power, dependence, Episcopal, Guiding Values, Holy Trinity, independence, Jesus, ladder, not linear but circular, pilgrims on a journey, relationships, responsibility, sermon, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey, The Servant Song, thought like a child, We belong to one another, we can make one another stronger, with God’s help
A sermon about listening, learning, and loving from the balcony perspective of an older person.
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Tags: Apostle Peter, autoethnography, Balcony Perspective, brash nothing to prove, breath prayer, Christ Church Whitefish Bay, Doctor of Ministry, Episcopal, humility, iterative, Jesus, learning, listening, loving, Nashotah House, only holy invitations to offer, presumptuous sins, Psalm 19:23, Ron Heifetz, sermon, Transfiguration, Virginia Theological Seminary
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