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Sermon – The Third Sunday after Pentecost – June 26, 2022

Posted on June 26, 2022 by William Carl Thomas

A sermon that recalls how wearing the mantle of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control remembered in stories about blueberries and ducklings presents love your neighbor as yourself as the outpouring of the fruit of the Spirit.

Category: Sermons Tags: Apostle Paul, Blueberries for Sal, double portion, Elijah, Elisha, Episcopal, faithfulness, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Generosity, gentleness, Jesus, joy, kindness, Lost and Found, Love, love your neighbor, Make Way for Ducklings, mantle, patience, peace, Robert McCloskey, self-control, sermon

The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – August 1, 2021

Posted on August 1, 2021 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon grounded in how well the Apostle Paul in Ephesians speaks to our fractured COVID ravaged culture.

Category: Sermons Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, belong to one another, COVID disciplines, craftiness, deceitful scheming, Episcopal, God’s help, humility, in the world, Jesus the head of the body, Letter Ephesians, Love, one another, people’s trickery, presumptuous sins, proper 13, Psalm 19:13, sanctuary, sermon, stronger, truth in love, wear masks, winds of doctrine

The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8) Sermon with link to Worship On Demand – June 28, 2020

Posted on June 26, 2020 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that probes how asking the right questions influences behavior, especially when responding to God’s Holy Invitations.

Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons Tags: Abraham, Andy Griffith Show, Bryce Dallas Howard, Communion with Christ, Dads movie, Episcopal, Holy Invitations, influence, Isaac, Jesus, Joseph, Love, Opie, ram, Rance Howard, Ronnie Howard, Sacrifice, sermon, shadow behavior, Welcome

The Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7) Sermon with link to Worship On Demand – June 21, 2020

Posted on June 19, 2020 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that offers how love overcomes the inequality found in the origin stories of the three Abrahamic religions.

Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons Tags: Abraham, Canaanite Woman, Communion with Christ, coronavirus, Episcopal, Hagar, inequality, Ishmael, Issac, Jesus, Love, Samaritan woman, Sarah, sermon, Social Justice

Trinity Sunday Sermon with link to Worship On Demand – June 7, 2020

Posted on June 5, 2020 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon on the energy of love within the Trinity that strengthens us to confront racism and the coronavirus.

Category: Liturgical Resources, Sermons Tags: Bishop Curry, Blazing Saddles movie, Episcopal, Love, masks, sermon, systemic racism, Trinity

Sermon for The First Sunday in Lent – March 1, 2020

Posted on March 1, 2020 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon about connecting to the abundant grace that makes the Body of Christ possible.

Category: Sermons Tags: abundant grace, Adam and Eve, Apostle Paul, Balcony Perspective, Body of Christ, Came to himself moment, Elder brother, Episcopal, I am St. Timothy’s, Jesus, Lent, Love, Loving Father, missing the mark, Prodigal Son, relationships, sermon, sin, Transactions, We are Wilson

Sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 19) – Sept. 15, 2019

Posted on September 15, 2019 by William Carl Thomas

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Stewardship, Share Love, & The Pearl of Great Price Story

Category: Sermons, Stewardship Tags: Bishop Bill Stough, Discipleship, Episcopal, Jesus, Living Into Commitment, Love, relationship with God, Render unto Caesar, Rich Young Ruler, sermon, Stewardship, The Pearl of Great Value

Sermon for The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 14) – August 11, 2019

Posted on August 11, 2019 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon about how being Shalom (Peace) makes hard conversations about hot button topics possible.

Category: Sermons Tags: anxiety, Army Chaplain, Be ready, conversation, Episcopal, God, Jesus, lilies of the field, listening, Love, Martin Luther King, MLK, necessary use of force, peace, principle, race, rifle, Shalom

A Sermon featuring the love of Mary Hatch from It’s a Wonderful Life

Posted on December 17, 2018 by William Carl Thomas

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Mary Hatch, played by Donna Reed, is the conduit of grace that saves George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart).

Category: Sermons Tags: Angel Clarence, Bedford Falls, born again, Donna Reed, Episcopal, George Bailey, Grace, greed, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Jesus, Love, Mary, Nicodemus, Not Condemn, Old Granville House, sermon

Sermon – The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost – September 2, 2018

Posted on September 2, 2018 by William Carl Thomas

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Sermon for The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 17 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 2, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at

Category: Sermons Tags: abundance, adultery, avarice, be make haste to be kind, bring forth in us the fruit of good works, claustrophobia, Community, Compassion, deceit, doers of the word, envy, Episcopal, folly, fornication, Generosity, Grace, humility, Jesus, licentiousness, Love, mission, murder, New Bern airport, plane seatback, pride, quick to love, sensitivity, sermon, slander, theft, Vulnerability, wickedness

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