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A sermon about recognizing and then integrating head and heart as we seek the humility to keep our strength control to better hear God’s invitation to live and love like Jesus so that in the power of the Holy Spirit we can help others to do the same.
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Tags: Albert Holtz, Apostle Paul, balance, Create in me a clean heart, Episcopal, head and heart, Heart Treasure, humility, humility is strength under control, listening, love received, love shared, Mark W. Baker, mission of reconciliation, obedience, Pharisee, right priorities, Saul to Paul, sermon, Spirituality of Imperfection, Tax Collector
My sermon that celebrates the wisdom and humility that springs from the Anam Cara compassionate presence found in St. Brigid of Kildare’s Table Grace along with a very useful quote from Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple.
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Tags: ABC William Temple, Anam Cara, anamchara, Attitude, banquet, Brigid’s Table Grace, compassionate presence, Episcopal, feeding, How the Irish Saved Civilization, humility, Jesus, Mark W. Baker, mission, poor, Right-Relationship, sermon, Service, Soul Friend, St. Brigid, Strength under control, Thomas Cahill
A sermon that challenges an understanding of the word provoke with the strength under control that is humility within the encouragement of the prayer of self-dedication.
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Tags: control our minds, Draw our hearts, encourage, Episcopal, fill our imaginations, Glory of God, guide our minds, humility, Jesus, Mark W. Baker, prayer self-dedication, provoke, retirement sermon, self-dedication, Strength under control, use us, welfare of God’s people
A sermon that links the deep meaning of shalom to embracing by word and action this statement: “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.â€
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Tags: Capable Wife, children, Community, confronting the greatest, Episcopal, humility, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Koinonia, Mutual Ministry, Ordination of Women, peace, power over, power with, sermon, Servanthood, Shalom, violin
A sermon that confronts presumptuous sins, untamed tongues, and the arrogance of opinion with a call to humility and the deep spirituality of the Prayer attributed to St. Francis.
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Tags: 9+11=20, 9+12=21, Academia, Arrogance of Opinion, Community of Hope, Episcopal, humility, James 3:1-12, joy conquer despair, Middletown NJ, Prayer attributed to St. Francis, presumptuous sins, Psalm 19:13, seminary, sermon, Untamed tongue
A sermon grounded in how well the Apostle Paul in Ephesians speaks to our fractured COVID ravaged culture.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, belong to one another, COVID disciplines, craftiness, deceitful scheming, Episcopal, God’s help, humility, in the world, Jesus the head of the body, Letter Ephesians, Love, one another, people’s trickery, presumptuous sins, proper 13, Psalm 19:13, sanctuary, sermon, stronger, truth in love, wear masks, winds of doctrine
A sermon that places independence within what it means to be dependent and inter-dependent on God and one another.
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Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Beloved Community, Communion with Christ, coronavirus, day is night, Declaration of Independence, dependent, Episcopal, Fourth of July, give you rest, heaven on earth, heavy burdens, humility, independent, inter-dependent, learn from Jesus, masks, night is day, pandemic, rest for your souls, sermon, trust in God, weary, willingness, with God’s help, yoke
A sermon about deep listening in which I tell the story of God calling me to the Deep South to serve in Tuscaloosa, AL.
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Tags: angels, blessing least expected, blessing needed most, blessing of God, breath prayer, do justice, Elijah, Episcopal, humility, Jesus, Legion, listening, love kindness, Micah 6:8, predisposed to notice God, quarterback story, sermon, sound sheer silence, walk humbly with God
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
Sermon for The Fourth Sunday in Lent (4 Lent B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – March 11, 2018. Read THE SACRED OF ST. BENEDICT MEETS THE SECULAR OF LEVEL 5 Click here…
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Tags: Abbot, bacon, Balcony Perspective, complimentary church leadership, dance floor, Darkness, Ephesians 2:8-10, Episcopal, Good to Great, good works, Grace, humility, Jesus, Jim Collins, John Wesley, leadership, Level 5 Leader, Light, Nicodemus, paradox, personal humility professional will, Ron Heifetz, Rule of Benedict, sermon
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