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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 takes a fluid memory that often seems more like a dream but is really an invitation to let doctrine be a door that opens to the embrace the love that is the Trinity as we experience and share God as Lover, Beloved, and Breath of Love.
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Tags: Beloved, Breath of Love, creator redeemer sanctifier, Deep Church, Doctrine, Episcopal, father son holy spirit, fluid memory, lake, Love, Lover, Lover Beloved Breath of Love, Preface for Trinity Sunday, sermon, three fading ripples, tossed rocks, Trinity Sunday, water
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
A sermon that springs from the six defining questions at Holy Baptism that combat, as Jesus said, the evil intentions from within that can defile a person.
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Tags: Acceptance of Jesus Christ, aware of the world, Episcopal, follow, Grace, Holy Baptism, Jesus, listening, Love, obedience, obey, recommit each day, renunciations of evil, Savior, sermon, Six Defining Question, trust
A sermon that explores how the benediction from Numbers 6:24-26 weaves a tapestry where God’s grace and peace becomes apparent in the leadership changes we say we want but truly need whether found in the Presiding Bishop-Elect of the Episcopal Church or the new Rector of St. Anne’s Jacksonville NC.
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Tags: benediction, Episcopal, Episcopal Church, General Convention, gracious, Jarius, Jesus, Koininia, Love, Michael Curry, Numbers 6:24-26, peace, Pope Francis, Presiding Bishop-Elect Sean Rowe, Psalm 130, sermon, Shalom, the best is yet to come, Waiting, Woman with the hemorrhage
A sermon that explores how hope brings forth belief and builds faith with a look at the gift the 10 disciples of Jesus gave a distraught Thomas.
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Tags: 10 disciples, assurance, belief, believe, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, clothe us with your Spirit, conviction, doubt, Easter, Empty Tomb, Episcopal, faith, Grief, hands in love, Hebrews 11:1, Hope, Jesus, Love, Mary Magdalene, sermon, set your heart, share, Thomas, Upper Room
A sermon that apprehends the already and not yet moment that is the present as we dedicate our heart, mind, imagination, and will to share the reconciling love we’ve found in Jesus Christ.
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Tags: Already Not Yet, Being of Use, Bishop Brent, end times, faith, heart, Hope, imagination, Jesus Christ, listening, Lord’s Prayer, Love, mind, obedience, Our Father, prayer self-dedication, reconciling love, right relationship, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Thy will be done, will
A sermon that offers consequences when ignoring the Apostle Paul’s expression “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” and guidance such as Love that shares is the antidote to the uncertainty of riches with a connection to the “missing” summer lection Luke 12:48.
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Tags: 1 Timothy 6:6-9, 5 to 10 talent parish, chasm, Consequences, Dives, endurance, Episcopal, faith, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, gentleness, godliness, Guidance, Lazarus, Love, Love that shares is the antidote, Luke 12:48, much is expected, much is required, Parable of the Talents, pursue righteousness, ready to share, sermon, To much has been given, Uncertainty of riches
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.
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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
A sermon grounded in how well the Apostle Paul in Ephesians speaks to our fractured COVID ravaged culture.
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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