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Sermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 3, 2023

A sermon that begins a nine week series entitled Living as Shalom with connections to peace, koinonia, justice, mercy, and grace, as we find Shalom at the heart of the mission of the Church to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.

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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – July 16, 2023

A sermon that reflects on the how the seeds of love sown by God again and again and again in what appears to be a wasteful manner are really the abundant invitation to discover that the light of God’s love shines as the catching force in and through the most surprising of times, places and persons.

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The Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – October 24, 2021

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.”

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The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension Sermon – May 16, 2021

A sermon that links the pandemic with the in-between time from the Ascension to Pentecost with Grace like rain.

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The Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6) Sermon with link to Worship On Demand – June 14, 2020

A sermon that moves through the words faith, grace, love, suffering, endurance, assurance, and hope.

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The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension with link to Worship On Demand – May 24, 2020

A Sermon about how grace fell like rain on the Feast of the Ascension during seminary in 1988.

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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter – June 2, 2019

May the blessing of God find you when you least expect it and need it most.

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Sermon – The Third Sunday In Lent – March 24, 2019

What does the Lord require of you? Micah 6:8 as a breath prayer.

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A Sermon featuring the love of Mary Hatch from It’s a Wonderful Life

The sermon features a conversation with Nicodemus and Jesus wherein Jesus shows how the love of Mary Hatch played by Donna Reed, is the conduit of grace that saves George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) using the movie It’s a Wonderful Life to explain the love that does not condemn the world but saves the world. The theme works during Advent/Christmas as well as Lent (especially after watching It’s a Wonderful Life!).

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Sermon – The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost – September 2, 2018

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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