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A sermon that recalls how wearing the mantle of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control remembered in stories about blueberries and ducklings presents love your neighbor as yourself as the outpouring of the fruit of the Spirit.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Blueberries for Sal, double portion, Elijah, Elisha, Episcopal, faithfulness, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Generosity, gentleness, Jesus, joy, kindness, Lost and Found, Love, love your neighbor, Make Way for Ducklings, mantle, patience, peace, Robert McCloskey, self-control, sermon
Sermon for The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 20 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 23, 2018. This my final sermon offered before this wonderful congregation as I retire from…
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Tags: 13th Dr. Who, abundance, Angel, blessing find you, Death in Paradise, Devil, DI Humphrey Goodman, Education for Ministry, Episcopal, Family Promise, feeding the hungry, Generosity, generous act of giving, Jesus, Leaving sermon, Letter of James, Midsummer Murders, retirement sermon, scarcity, stronger, Thank you, the one you feed, transition, With God's help
Sermon for The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 17 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 2, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Tags: abundance, adultery, avarice, be make haste to be kind, bring forth in us the fruit of good works, claustrophobia, Community, Compassion, deceit, doers of the word, envy, Episcopal, folly, fornication, Generosity, Grace, humility, Jesus, licentiousness, Love, mission, murder, New Bern airport, plane seatback, pride, quick to love, sensitivity, sermon, slander, theft, Vulnerability, wickedness