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This sermon is about not losing heart in a world overwhelmed by what the Apostle Paul calls itching ears as we seek to share, with utmost patience, the love we have found in Jesus Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 55th class reunion, Andrea Wasmer obit, Apostle Paul, attitude of loving kindness, Class of 1970, Compassion, do not lose heart, Episcopal, Horace Greeley High School, itching ears. relationships, Jesus, Listen with the ear of the heart and the mind, Rule of St. Benedict, Scottish blessing, sermon, sermon on the passing of a high school classmate, transactional, Twin Towers
This sermon explores how the habit of saying thank you helps you hold onto the values placed in your compass which strengthen you to withstand the limitations caused by the demands exerted by your clock.
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Category: Sermons, Stewardship
Tags: 10 Lepers, Baptismal promises, Cardinal Virtues, compass and clock, demands, Do a good turn daily, Episcopal, Fortitude, heart, Henrygram, Jesus, limitations, one thank you, Principle Centered Leadership, Prudence, Rev Henry Doyle, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey, Stewardship, Thank you, What’s in your compass, what’s in your pledge card
This sermon wonders if the words the Apostle Paul shared with Timothy could have been part of the moment the slaver John Newton moved from infidel and libertine to eventually become priest and give us the truth of
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!
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Tags: Amazing Grace, Apostle Paul, blessing of God find you, Episcopal, epitaph, fool, Glorious things of thee are spoken, How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, Jesus, John Newton, man of violence, sermon, slaver, Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade, Willam Wilberforce, wretch
This sermon looks at what values should be placed in your personal compass such as the Cardinal Virtues of fortitude, justice, temperance, and prudence as well as those shunned by the rich man dressed in purple who found, upon being tormented in Hades when the clock ran out upon his death, that root of evil was, indeed, his love of money.
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Tags: and prudence, Apostle Paul, Cardinal Virtues, Compass and the Clock, Dives, endurance, Episcopal, faith, fortitude or courage, gentleness, Gleanings of the field, godliness, Jesus, Justice, Lazarus, Lazarus beggar, Lazarus sores, Love, love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, pledge card, Rich Man, rich man purple, righteousness, sermon, Stephen Covey, Stewardship, temperance, tithe, What’s in your compass
This sermon finds commonality with my story and that of the Apostle Paul’s story as he writes that Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making him an example to those who would come to believe in Jesus for eternal life.
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Tags: 1st Timothy, Apostle Paul, being an example, Burt Lancaster, Came to himself moment, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Episcopal, Field of Dreams, Jesus, Leo Tolstoy, make me an instrument of your peace, man of violence, Parable of the Loving Father, Parable of the Prodigal Son, Prayer of Saint Francis, Road to Damascus, Saint Augustine, sermon, stoning of Stephen, the loving father and the elder brother, Utmost Patience
This sermon finds a pathway to understanding in the story of the Pearl of Great Price to the assertion of Jesus that none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.
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Tags: Bishop Bill Stough, Episcopal, give up all your possessions, Jesus, Jesus loved him, relationship to God, relationship to money, sell all that you have, sermon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Rich Young Ruler, understand relationships
This sermon seeks to listen with deep obedience to Jesus as he teaches that all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted by taking to heart and practice St. Brigid’s Table Grace.
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Tags: Anam Cara, Celtic Christianity, conversion of life, deep obedience, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Episcopal, Faith seeking understanding, Heretics and Heros: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World, Hinges of History series, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Jesus, listening, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World, obedience, Rule of Saint Benedict, Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, Saint Anslem, Saint Brigid of Kildare, Saint Brigid’s Table Grace, sermon, stability, Strength under control, Synod of Whitby, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Nomads Change the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Thomas Cahill
My sermon finds guidance and strength in praying Psalm 71 (which I chant) as we ponder the power found in God’s initiative and our response to the love made known in Jesus Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Call of Prophet Jeremiah, Cleopas’ companion, Epiphany, Episcopal, God’s Initiative, inflection moment, Jesus, Known in the breaking of the bread, My life expressed in Psalm 71, our continued questions, Our Response, psalm 71, Road to Emmaus, sermon, the faithful answers from Jesus, woman heled on the sabbath
This sermon asks what it means that “you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour,” as we hear that “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
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Tags: Always we begin again, Be ready, Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again, do justice, Episcopal, faith is conviction of things not seen, faith is the assurance things hoped for, Hebrews 11:1, Jesus, John McQuiston II, live this life attitude of loving kindness, love kindness, Luke 12:40, Micah 6:8, parable of the talents Matthew 25, Rule of St Benedict, Secret Life of Pets, sermon, unexpected hour, Walk humbly with your God
This sermon finds illumination in John Henry Newman’s prayer “Stay With Me” as we so often diminish ourselves by storing up treasures rather than being rich towards God.
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Tags: Apostle Paul’s list of behaviors that should be put to death, be rich towards God, catching force, David Brooks, Diminisher, Doctor of the Church, Episcopal, How to Know a Person, illumination does not seek perfection but rather partnership with God, Illuminator, Jesus, John Henry Newman, sermon, store up treasures, sympathetic influence, three barns, to be a light to others
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