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A sermon that brings a nine week series titled as Living as Shalom to a close with Jesus’s teaching on loving God and neighbor as expressed in Archbishop William Temple’s Prayer of Self-Dedication.
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A sermon that presents newly baptized children with godparents beyond those standing at the font such as the church community as we remember that we belong to one another…together with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.
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A sermon that explores the questions: How do you handle receiving the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most? How does your manner of reception live as Shalom?
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Tags: Episcopal, Forgiveness, glitter of award, God’s invitations, God’s yearning, Golden Calf, green parachute stole, heart, How do you handle receiving the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most?, humility, I must decrease that he might increase, Jesus, listening carefully to God, living as shalom, peace, sermon, Servanthood, Shalom, treasure, US Army Reserve Chaplain
A sermon that moves through personal story and the importance of Jesus centered principles expressed in the Benedictine expression “Listening with the Ear of the Heart” as essential to Living as Shalom.
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Tags: Episcopal, Guiding Principles, Jesus, John McQuiston II, listening with the ear of the heart, living as shalom, love your neighbor, peace, Rule of St. Benedict, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Shalom, The Passover
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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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 reflects on our response to God’s initiative in Jesus Christ as we listen with the ear of the heart and strive to live this life with an attitude of loving kindness.
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Tags: Always we begin again, Apostle Paul, attitude of loving kindness, Compassion, Ear of the heart, Episcopal, Get out of your head, head and heart, Jesus, John McQuiston II, listening, Mercy, Prophet Amos, Prophet Hosea, Prophet Micah, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon
A sermon that imagines puzzle pieces dancing in the Pentecost tongues of fire as the promised Holy Spirit guides the connections that make the Body of Christ Jigsaw Puzzle: Pentecost Edition possible.
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Tags: 50 Days, Body of Christ Jigsaw: Pentecost Edition, Breathes the Holy Spirit, connections, Descent of the Holy Spirit, Episcopal, gifts of the Spirit, Jesus, Jigsaw puzzles, Kingdom of God on earth as on heaven, languages, Lord’s Prayer, make one another stronger, Our Father, Pentecost, puzzle pieces, relationship with God, sermon, the Ascension, Tongues of Fire, Tower Babel, We belong to one another, with God’s help
A sermon that explores the promise to receive the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most that often feels like grace falling like rain.
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Tags: blessing of God, chapel prank, Chris Agnew, Episcopal, Grace like rain, Gracious rain, Jesus, Least expected, Liminal time, Nashotah House, need it most, Pentecost, Psalm 68:9, seminary, sermon, the Ascension
A sermon that looks at how doing math with Jesus finds a formula in the Prayer of Self-Dedication that gives strength in times of anguish as an action oriented thought and prayer.
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Tags: ABC William Temple, Allen Texas, anguish, control will, do the math, doing math with Jesus, draw hearts, Episcopal, fill imagination, find strength, greater things, guide minds, Jesus, more than thoughts and prayers, Philip, Prayer of Self-Dedication, sermon, shooter, welfare of God’s people
A sermon that connects how Cleopas and his companion might have engaged the words “I believe, help my unbelief” (found in Mark 9:24) when meeting the resurrected Jesus on the Road to Emmaus.
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Tags: baptism, Cleopas and his companion, Confirmation, Episcopal, Hearts burning within, I believe help my unbelief, Jesus, Known in the breaking of the bread, Resurrection, Road to Emmaus, sermon, The Innkeeper’s Witness