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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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Category: Sermons
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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Category: Sermons
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
A sermon which reminds us that faith which has made you well is about professing and acting on the desire for right relationship with God as found in Micah 6:8 and so evident in the Rule of St. Benedict and the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 10 Lepers, do justice, faith, faith has made you well, John Michael Talbot, leper, love kindness, Micah 6:8, right relationship, sermon, St. Benedict, St. Francis of Assisi, thanksgiving, The Episcopal, Walk Humbly
A sermon that offers consequences when ignoring the Apostle Paul’s expression “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” and guidance such as Love that shares is the antidote to the uncertainty of riches with a connection to the “missing” summer lection Luke 12:48.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 1 Timothy 6:6-9, 5 to 10 talent parish, chasm, Consequences, Dives, endurance, Episcopal, faith, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, gentleness, godliness, Guidance, Lazarus, Love, Love that shares is the antidote, Luke 12:48, much is expected, much is required, Parable of the Talents, pursue righteousness, ready to share, sermon, To much has been given, Uncertainty of riches
A sermon (more a summer homily) about how to be prepared to see things hoped for as the light of Christ shines in the darkness with the assurance to reveal things not seen.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: assurance, be prepared, confidence, conviction, Darkness, Dressed for action, Episcopal, faith, fear, Great Vigil of Easter, Jesus, lamps lit, lantern, Letter Hebrews, Light of Christ, new fire, ready, sermon, things hoped for, things not seen, trauma within the triduum
A sermon that proclaims faith as the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen in the amazing grace that moved both Bartimaeus and John Newton to be able to claim “I was blind but now I see.â€
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Amazing Grace, assurance, Bartimaeus, beggar, blindness, conviction, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Hebrews 11, Hope, Jesus, John Newton, Justice, Mercy, orans position, sermon, singing, Woman flow of blood
A sermon that moves through the words faith, grace, love, suffering, endurance, assurance, and hope.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, assurance, character, Communion with Christ, coronavirus, endurance, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Hope, I love you, Letter Hebrews, mask, not seen, search committee, sermon, suffering
Living and reliving Psalm 130 during a time of social distancing: worship with prayer, music, preaching, and communion.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: anchor, coronavirus, COVID-19, Episcopal, faith, my soul waits for the Lord, Psalm 130, sailboat, sermon, social distancing, story, sunrise, trust, watchman, With God's help
The Sermon – The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 15 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 14, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: A&P, division, Education for Ministry, EfM, Episcopal, faith, Good to Great, Guiding Principles. hubris, Jesus, Jesus spelled love, Jim Collins, Kroger, Letter to the Hebrews, listening, Luke 20, mother against daughter, not convincing but conviction, sermon, son against father, tenants, vineyard, watchtower
Text of the sermon preached By The Very Reverend William Carl Thomas The Third Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 6 Year B) June 17, 2012 At Saint Matthews Episcopal Church, Charleston West Virginia Click here to listen to the sermon. We…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Adonai, Avinu, Dive-In, Ecclesiastes, El, El Shaddai, Elohim, Elyon, faith, Hope, Immanence, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, listening, Love, obedience, Operation Overboard, Transcendence, Trinity, Vacation Bible School
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