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Sermon – The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28) – November 16, 2025

This sermon contemplates how shalom is woven through an image of a rope to guide our understanding of scripture, reason, and tradition especially when it comes to celebrating the Kirkin’ O the Tartan as a mark of koinonia.

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Sermon – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 29, 2024

This sermon looks deeply at Shalom as the word that expresses to one another the wish for the richness and fullness of all that God has to offer and a method to listen to God for such richness and fullness.

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Sermon – The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – June 30, 2024

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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Sermon – The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – June 23, 2024

A sermon that celebrates how often God’s power is made manifest in the surprise that brings joy and peace as the blessing found when you least expect it and need it most.

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Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 17, 2023

A sermon that explores the questions: How do you handle receiving the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most? How does your manner of reception live as Shalom?

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Sermon – The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 10, 2023

A sermon that moves through personal story and the importance of Jesus centered principles expressed in the Benedictine expression “Listening with the Ear of the Heart” as essential to Living as Shalom.

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Sermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 3, 2023

A sermon that begins a nine week series entitled Living as Shalom with connections to peace, koinonia, justice, mercy, and grace, as we find Shalom at the heart of the mission of the Church to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.

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

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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The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – September 19, 2021

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.”

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

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

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