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This sermon explores how listening and invitation are intertwined with the demonstration of a contemplative practice that builds on “Be still, and know that I am God.”
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Tags: Be still, breath prayer, Chronos time, contemplative practice, dandruff, environment of invitation, Episcopal, God is timeless, God’s holy invitations, Invitation, Jesus, Kairos time, leprosy, listening, Naaman, Prophet Elijah, sermon
This sermon explores how we live into “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” as a congregation committed to being Veteran Friendly as we engage the wisdom found in restoring warriors within a sweat lodge.
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Tags: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, disciple, Episcopal, follower of Jesus, Jesus, love your neighbor as your self, Marines, Military Chaplains Association, Navy, Plains Indians, Prayer of Self-Dedication, sermon, servant, sheepdog neighborhoods, Space Force, Sweat Lodge, Thank you for your service, Veteran Friendly Congregation, veterans, who is my neighbor, zip+4
This sermon asks how does joy conquer despair as we share the moment God invites Elijah to once again put his trust in God after wind, earthquake, and fire illuminate rather than diminish God’s call in the sound of sheer silence as the blessing he least expected and needed most.
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Tags: 9/1/2001, blessing of God find you when you least expect it and need it most, candle, Darkness, David Brooks, Diminisher, earthquake, Elijah, Episcopal, fire, How to Know a Person, humility, Illuminator, Jesus, joy, joy conquer despair, lauds, Light, Light of Christ, matins, Prologue to John’s Gospel, Psalm 43, Richard Rohr, Saint Matthias Tuscaloosa Alabama, September 11 2001, sermon, temple curtain torn, Tenebrae, trust, truth, wedding, wind
This sermon reminds us that Holy Baptism recalls what it means to believe as we set our heart on Jesus, put our whole trust in his grace and love, as we promise to follow and obey him as our Lord.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, believe, Episcopal, faith, Grace, Holy Baptism, Jailer, James R Adams, Jesus, Love, obey, promise to follow, sermon, set your heart on, so you think you’re not religious
This sermon reflects on how receiving the promised Advocate, another way of understanding the gift of the Holy Spirit, is very much how grace falls like rain as the parish enters into a time of preparation and promise.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: chapel prank, Episcopal, Grace falls like rain, Gracious rain, Jesus, Liminal time, Nashotah House, Pentecost, preparation, promise, promised Holy Spirit, seminary, sermon, the Ascension, Todd Agnew
This sermon shares prayers and a commitment to remember that children learn what they live as we hear Jesus give us a new commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.
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Tags: AB Temple’s Prayer of Self-dedication, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, Children Learn What They Live, congregational promise at baptism, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, Jesus, love one another as I have love you, new commandment, scout law, scout oath, sermon
This sermon contemplates what it means to listen when Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice” within the framework of stability, obedience, and conversion of life as lived with humility found within The Rule of St. Benedict.
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Tags: Always we begin again, conversation morum, conversion of life, Episcopal, Gift of finest wheat, hear my voice, humility, Jesus, John McQuistion II, listen, Mark W Baker, Michah 6:8, mother’s day, My son – listen to him, obediare, obedience, Psalm 121, Rule of Saint Benedict, sermon, sheep, stability, Strength under control, The Transfiguration
This sermon considers how the guiding values found in the expression we belong to one another together with God‘s help we can make one another stronger informs how we, the least likely people, are called to do God‘s work.
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Tags: 10 disciples, Ananias with Saul, bring Thomas to Jesus, Do you love me, Episcopal, feed my sheep, Jesus, Jesus with Peter, Least likely people, listenting to God, sermon, we belong too ne another, we can make one another stronger, with God’s help
This sermon considers how our joy in proclaiming “Alleluia, Christ is Risen, The Lord is Risen, Indeed, Alleluia” is deepened when we hear Thomas’ statement of faith: My Lord and my God.”
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Tags: 10 disciples, Apostle Thomas, believe, Episcopal, Jesus, Johannine Community, joy, missing people, My Lorda and my God, puzzle pieces, Risen Christ, sermon, set your heart on, statement of faith, Thomas, Upper Room
A sermon that reflects on the ancient and current examples of God’s saving deeds in history that links the foot washing act of love by Jesus to how is he his death and resurrection is life-giving when we see and find the Light of the transfigured Christ as the source of strength as Peter did.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: Being the Light of Christ, careful light and darkness images, David Brooks – How to Know a Person, Diminisher, Episcopal, God’s saving deeds in history, Illuminator, Jesus, Jesus know in the light, Judas Iscariot, Peter, sermon, strength, The Foot washing of Christ, The Life-giving of Christ, the Light of Christ, Transfiguration