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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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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 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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Tags: Apostle Paul, believe, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Holy Baptism, Jailer, James R Adams, Jesus, Love, obey, promise to follow, sermon, set your heart on, so you think you’re not religious
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
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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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
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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Tags: Baptismal Covenant Promises, build value system, embrace, Episcopal, faith, founding, Jesus, Letter from James, loving your neighbor as yourself, mission, Proverbs 22:22, respond to God’s Holy Invitations, sermon, Seven Springs NC, St. Brigid’s Table Grace, Syrophoenician woman, tension, The Poor, works
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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Tags: Apostle Paul, backpack, disciple, discipline, Episcopal, faith, Jesus, joy, kindness, may joy conquer despair, narrow unstable bridge, respect, Saint Patrick’s Breastplate, sermon, understanding, unknown, wonder
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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Tags: belief, Episcopal, extravagant love freely offered, faith, Hope, imagination, Political violence, sermon, set your heart, Shalom, thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven
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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Tags: 10 disciples, assurance, belief, believe, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, clothe us with your Spirit, conviction, doubt, Easter, Empty Tomb, Episcopal, faith, Grief, hands in love, Hebrews 11:1, Hope, Jesus, Love, Mary Magdalene, sermon, set your heart, share, Thomas, Upper Room
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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Tags: Affirmations. Godparents, baptism, believe, Bishop Brent Collect for Mission, Children Learn What They Live, conversation, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, faith, inward grace, Latin baptism rite, outward sign, Prayer of Self-Dedication, promise, Renunciations, sacrament, sermon, set-your-heart, Show and Tell, signature, support newly baptized, The Godfather Movie
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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Tags: Already Not Yet, Being of Use, Bishop Brent, end times, faith, heart, Hope, imagination, Jesus Christ, listening, Lord’s Prayer, Love, mind, obedience, Our Father, prayer self-dedication, reconciling love, right relationship, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Thy will be done, will