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A sermon that proclaims that God is Love and that Love is the perfect relationship of Lover, Beloved, and Breath of Love that we sometimes know and see but is always offered.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Armed Forces Day, Beloved, body of water, Breath of Love, chapel, creator, Doctrine, Episcopal, Father, God is Love, holy spirit, Ilia Delio, Lover, Memorial Day, Nicodemus, Noticing, pebble thrown, perfect relationship, redeemer, Ruah, sanctifier, Scout Camp, sermon, sharing, Son, Trinity, Veterans Day
A sermon about what being in the power of the Holy Spirit as a community that prays and lives “We belong to one another, together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger”.
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Tags: Acts of the Apostles, Baptismal Covenant, Baptismal promises, Community, crowd sourcing, Episcopal, Gospel John, gospels Matthew Mark Luke, holy spirit, Jesus, Koinonia, listen while walking the path, Math, Micah 6:8, paths, Pentecost, relationships, Rev Mary Carson, sermon, thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven, Tongues of Fire, Tower of Babel undone
A sermon that hears the tongues of fire that descend on Pentecost as God’s holy universal translator, undoing the quest for earthly power found in the Tower of Babel into the promised loving, life-giving Power of the Holy Spirit.
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Tags: advocate, Comforter, communicate, Episcopal, God’s holy universal translator, holy spirit, Jesus, language, life-giving, listen with the ear of your heart, loving, math lesson, Peter, Philip, Power of the Holy Spirit, quiet, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, still, Tower of Babel, universal translator
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 features the congregation of St. Timothy’s Wilson as visual examples of tongues of fire as we live in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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A sermon about the importance of Fortitude as we live the with courage our convictions while finding a new normal during this time of COVID-19.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: almsgiving, Baptismal Covenant, Baptismal promises, collection plate, convictions, courage, Episcopal, Fortitude, holy spirit, masks, Micah 6:8, sermon, Stages of reentry, trust in God
Sermon for The Seventh Sunday of Easter (7 Easter B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 13, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Ascension Day, calling a new priest, chapel prank, Episcopal, Grace like rain, helium balloons, holy spirit, Jesus, Nashotah House, Pentecost, propagate website, sermon, St. Lawrence, St. Matthias, St. Matthias Tuscaloosa AL, St. Peter, trust
Sermon for The Sixth Sunday of Easter (6 Easter B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 6, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abide in my love, baptism, Bishop Brent, chosen, embrace, Episcopal, give life for another, holy spirit, hubris, Jesus died for all, love one another, priestly, scandal of particularity, sermon
Sermon for The First Sunday of Advent (1 Advent Year B) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, December 3, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Advent, anxiety, be prepared, best way to prepare fo coming of Christ, do not be anxious, Episcopal, holy spirit, Jesus, remember presence of Christ, sermon, share as Body of Christ, stay awake, tax changes
Sermon for The First Sunday After Pentecost: Trinity Sunday (Trinity Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, June 11, 2017. I made reference to the image of dance in the sermon…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: baptism, born again, Creation story, dance, Episcopal, Fidget Spinner, holy spirit, Jesus, linear thinking, Love, mind-blowing, Nicodemus, prayer of the water of baptism, sermon, Three Persons, Trinity, Unity of Being