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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
A sermon about listening, learning, and loving from the balcony perspective of an older person.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Peter, autoethnography, Balcony Perspective, brash nothing to prove, breath prayer, Christ Church Whitefish Bay, Doctor of Ministry, Episcopal, humility, iterative, Jesus, learning, listening, loving, Nashotah House, only holy invitations to offer, presumptuous sins, Psalm 19:23, Ron Heifetz, sermon, Transfiguration, Virginia Theological Seminary
A sermon that explores the promise to receive the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most that often feels like grace falling like rain.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: blessing of God, chapel prank, Chris Agnew, Episcopal, Grace like rain, Gracious rain, Jesus, Least expected, Liminal time, Nashotah House, need it most, Pentecost, Psalm 68:9, seminary, sermon, the Ascension
A sermon that links the pandemic with the in-between time from the Ascension to Pentecost with Grace like rain.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Peter, Ascension, blessing of God, chapel pranks, Election of Matthias, Episcopal, Grace, Grace like rain, helium balloons, holy spirit, Nashotah House, pandemic, Pentecost, sermon, share love, Tod Agnew
Sermon for The Seventh Sunday of Easter (7 Easter B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 13, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Ascension Day, calling a new priest, chapel prank, Episcopal, Grace like rain, helium balloons, holy spirit, Jesus, Nashotah House, Pentecost, propagate website, sermon, St. Lawrence, St. Matthias, St. Matthias Tuscaloosa AL, St. Peter, trust
Sermon for The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension (7 Easter Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, May 28, 2017.I mentioned this song by Todd Agnew in…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: anxiety, Armed Forces Day, Armistice Day, Ascension of Jesus, Cast all your anxiety on God, chapel prank, Decoration Day, Episcopal, God cares for you, Grace, Grace like rain, helium balloons, Jesus, Love, MASH, Memorial Day, Nashotah House, seminary, sermon, snarky, Todd Agnew, Veteran's Day
Ascension Day Sermon – on behalf of The Episcopal Churches of Huntington St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Huntington West Virginia – May 9, 2013  This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: academics, Ascension Day, believe, Ephesians 1:15-23, Episcopal, Grace, helium balloons, Immeasurable greatness of his power, Kenneth Scott Latourette, Marshall University, Nashotah House, seminary prank, sermon