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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 that links the deep meaning of shalom to embracing by word and action this statement: “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.â€
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Tags: Capable Wife, children, Community, confronting the greatest, Episcopal, humility, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Koinonia, Mutual Ministry, Ordination of Women, peace, power over, power with, sermon, Servanthood, Shalom, violin
A sermon about how being Shalom (Peace) makes hard conversations about hot button topics possible.
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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
Sermon for The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 21 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, October 1, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Attitude, Episcopal, humility, hurricanes, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Love, make one another stronger, Mutual Ministry, peace, Philippians, Puerto Rico, sermon, Shalom, sharing, South Florida, Texas, We belong to one another
The Sermon – The Sixth Sunday of Easter (6 Easter Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – May 1, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Baptismal Covenant, Black Presiding Bishop, dignity, Episcopal Church, Female Presiding Bishop, Jesus, Justice, Mary Magdalene, Not the world's peace, Notice better, Ordained women, peace, Peace of Jesus, Power of the Holy Spirit, respect, role of women, sermon, Shalom