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A sermon that reflects on how people remembered but in the background are as essential to sharing the reconciling love of Jesus Christ as are the apostles Peter and Paul.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Ananias, background, Episcopal, favored of the LORD, fish, Identity, Jesus, least expected needed most, least likely, Paul, Peter, reconciling love, Saul, scales drop, see clearly, sermon, shame
A sermon that holds in conversation grief, power, and compassion with the challenge faced by the ten to return with Thomas to meet the risen Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: commission on ministry, Compassion, Doubting Thomas, Episcopal, handling grief, handling power, handling power with compassion, hesed, Jesus, My Lord and my God, ordination, pneuma, Ruach, sermon, statement of faith
A sermon that explores what it means to share in a thin space and be clothed in Spirit of love that found the prodigal son, the elder brother, the Apostle Paul and myself.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Arms of love, Bishop Brent, Came to himself, Collect for Mission, Elder brother, Episcopal, Grand Canyon, hands in love, Jesus, loving embrace, Loving Father, Paul’s conversion, Prodigal Son, Saul now Paul, sermon, so clothe us in your Spirit, The Book of Common Prayer, Thin Space
A sermon that dives into the Book of Common Prayer and finds prayers and collects that make for deep Lenten meditation to combat the evil one lurking to return at an opportune time.
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A sermon that sees Peter’s Earwig of Anxiety undone as Jesus is transfigured and places an Earwig of Trust in Peter. The hymn Be Thou My Vision becomes our Earwig of Trust as we pray for peace and enter into a devout a holy Lent in the days to come.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: anxiety, Ash Wednesday, Be thou my vision, Create a clean heart in me, Earwig, Earwig of Anxiety, Earwig of Trust, Earworm, Elijah, Episcopal, Great Litany, James, Jesus, John, Listen to Him, Litany of Penitence, Moses, Peter, Psalm 51, relationship with Jesus, sermon, Transfiguration, trust
A sermon that reminds us how the gifts of God and blessing of God come when we least expect it and need it most, especially through wisdom, knowledge, wine, and sharing pie.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: blessing, Episcopal, heart pie, Jesus, least expect need most, Mary, pie, sermon, spiritual gift knowledge, spiritual gift wisdom, Wedding Cana, wine, wine jugs
A sermon that reminds us, especially during the time of COVID, that we are sealed in the Holy Spirit by Baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: baptism, Beloved, Breath of God, broad shoulder cross, COVID challenges, Epiphany, Episcopal, Ilia Delio, Jesus, Lover, nothing can separate from love, Renewal of Baptismal Vows. listen to him, River Jordan, sermon, simple forehead cross, Transfiguration, Trinity
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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Category: Sermons
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 closes a 12 week guest preaching relationship by looking at how the congregation gave the preacher loving space that helped all hear and learn more deeply of God’s inviting love.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Boy Scout Law, Boy Scout Oath, Deep Church, Episcopal, Jesus, listening, love God, love neighbor, obediare, obedience, Prayer of Self-Dedication, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, Shema
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.”
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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