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Sermon – The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday – May 28, 2023

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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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension – May 21, 2023

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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Sermon – The Fifth Sunday of Easter – May 7, 2023

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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Sermon – The Third Sunday of Easter – April 23, 2023

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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Sermon – The Second Sunday of Easter – April 16, 2023

A sermon that delves into the words “I believe, help my unbelief” (found in Mark 9:24) when meeting the resurrected Jesus in the Upper Room without and then, a week later, with Thomas (who was called the Twin).

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Sermon – The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany – January 29, 2023

A sermon that brings the prophetic voice of Micah to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God into conversation with how the Apostle Paul and Ananias exemplify that God uses the least likely people to do God’s work.

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Sermon – The Third Sunday after the Epiphany – January 22, 2023

A sermon that finds deeper meaning and a pun from a possibly playful Jesus when he calls out to Andrew and Peter while they were casting their nets, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.”

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Sermon – Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 11, 2022

A sermon that calls us to remember that no matter how far we stray from accepting God’s love, that love is always seeking to restore right relationship with God and one another so that joy may conquer despair.

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Sermon – Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 4, 2022

A sermon that offers a perspective on Holy Baptism grounded in the natural hospitality of living into formation and discipleship when we accept God as the Potter and we are the clay.

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Sermon – Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – August 28, 2022

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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