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A sermon that looks at why we promise “We will” in support of the newly baptized, especially infants and young children I preached it to the one year old candidate for baptism with hopes that she will one day appreciate the reference to the movie The Godfather..
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Affirmations. Godparents, baptism, believe, Bishop Brent Collect for Mission, Children Learn What They Live, conversation, Dorothy Law Nolte, Episcopal, faith, inward grace, Latin baptism rite, outward sign, Prayer of Self-Dedication, promise, Renunciations, sacrament, sermon, set-your-heart, Show and Tell, signature, support newly baptized, The Godfather Movie
A sermon that looks at how doing math with Jesus finds a formula in the Prayer of Self-Dedication that gives strength in times of anguish as an action oriented thought and prayer.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: ABC William Temple, Allen Texas, anguish, control will, do the math, doing math with Jesus, draw hearts, Episcopal, fill imagination, find strength, greater things, guide minds, Jesus, more than thoughts and prayers, Philip, Prayer of Self-Dedication, sermon, shooter, welfare of God’s people
A sermon that closes a 12 week guest preaching relationship by looking at how the congregation gave the preacher loving space that helped all hear and learn more deeply of God’s inviting love.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Boy Scout Law, Boy Scout Oath, Deep Church, Episcopal, Jesus, listening, love God, love neighbor, obediare, obedience, Prayer of Self-Dedication, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, Shema
A sermon that connects the witness of personal story (that of the preacher’s call to priesthood) to how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: ADHD, baptism, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, call to priesthood, Christus Rex, Eldad, Episcopal, Esther, hands in love, Least likely people, Medad, Moses, ordination, Origen, Prayer of Self-Dedication, seminary, sermon, so clothe us in your Spirit, use us we pray, vocation