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Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21) – September 28, 2025

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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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension – June 1, 2025

This sermon reminds us that Holy Baptism recalls what it means to believe as we set our heart on Jesus, put our whole trust in his grace and love, as we promise to follow and obey him as our Lord.

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Sermon – The Second Sunday after the Epiphany – January 19, 2025

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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Sermon – The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – October 27, 2024

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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Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 8, 2024

A sermon that builds on the six defining questions at Holy Baptism with five defining promises that breathe life into the tension between faith and works as remember and celebrate, with thanksgiving and hope, the mission which God gave on this hill in Seven Springs North Carolina 154 years ago.

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Sermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 25, 2024

A sermon that considers the discipline needed to find the strength and resources to stay the course when choosing to embrace the call the follow Jesus.

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Sermon – The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost – July 14, 2024

A sermon that explores what it means to recognize that to set your heart is to experience what it means to believe so that even hope which stirs faith finds the extravagant love freely offered to all.

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Sermon – The Second Sunday after Easter – April 7, 2024

A sermon that explores how hope brings forth belief and builds faith with a look at the gift the 10 disciples of Jesus gave a distraught Thomas.

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Sermon – The Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 14, 2023

A sermon that looks at why we promise “We will” in support of the newly baptized, especially infants and young children I preached it to the one year old candidate for baptism with hopes that she will one day appreciate the reference to the movie The Godfather..

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Sermon -The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost – November 13, 2022

A sermon that apprehends the already and not yet moment that is the present as we dedicate our heart, mind, imagination, and will to share the reconciling love we’ve found in Jesus Christ.

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