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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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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, Episcopal, Grace, Justice, Koinonia, Mercy, peace, restorative justice, retributive justice, sermon, Shalom, stoning of Stephen, wooden spoon
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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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, Amazon Prime Week, awesome, catching force, Episcopal, God’s initiative our response, good soil, Grace, Huge, Jesus, Jesus math, John Henry Newman, linear gospel, Parable, path, rocky ground, seeds, sermon, shine as light to others, sower, Stay With Me, sympathetic influence, thorns
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 links the pandemic with the in-between time from the Ascension to Pentecost with Grace like rain.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Peter, Ascension, blessing of God, chapel pranks, Election of Matthias, Episcopal, Grace, Grace like rain, helium balloons, holy spirit, Nashotah House, pandemic, Pentecost, sermon, share love, Tod Agnew
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
A Sermon about how grace fell like rain on the Feast of the Ascension during seminary in 1988.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: advocate, Ascension, change, Episcopal, Grace, Grace falling like rain, helium balloons, least expect it, Liminal time, need it most, practical joke, sermon, story that sticks, the Holy Spirit, trust in God, Waiting, we are not alone
May the blessing of God find you when you least expect it and need it most.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Ascension, blessing of God least expected, blessing of God needed most, blood drive, Episcopal, giving, Grace, hemolytic anemia, receiving, sermon, steroids, Stewardship, transfusion
What does the Lord require of you? Micah 6:8 as a breath prayer.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: breath prayer, Episcopal, Grace, guest preacher, Havelock NC, Invitation, inward spiritual challenge, Jesus, Justice, Mercy, Micah 6:8, outward spiritual challenge, sermon, Walk humbly with your God
Mary Hatch, played by Donna Reed, is the conduit of grace that saves George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart).
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Angel Clarence, Bedford Falls, born again, Donna Reed, Episcopal, George Bailey, Grace, greed, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Jesus, Love, Mary, Nicodemus, Not Condemn, Old Granville House, sermon
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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Category: Sermons
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