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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
An Advent sermon about preparing for the coming of Christ by listening and serving others.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Advent, discern God’s invitations, Episcopal, Interim Rector, listening, new beginning, obedience, preparation, Relationship, sharing coffee, waiting tables
Sermon for The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 14 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 12, 2018. I mention First Intentional Communion in my sermon. My sermon can be viewed…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: C.S. Lewis, Episcopal, Feed each other, First Intentional Communion, general confession, I am the bread of life, I'm sorry to God, intentional, Jesus, mission, preparation, sanctuary, sermon, share love, story difference heaven hell
Sermon for Christ the King Sunday  (Last Pentecost Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, November 26, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Advent, Be of use, Christus Rex, Episcopal, Jesus, Matthew Chapter 25, mission, Nativity of Jesus, parable talents, parable ten bridegrooms, preparation, sermon, testimony, Use you brain, Use your gifts, wedding guests
Sermon for Ash Wednesday (Ash Wednesday) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Click here for the Lent is a Time of Feasting and Fasting bookmark. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Ash Wednesday, ashes, Create in me a clean heart, Easter, Episcopal, Fasting, Feasting, Good Friday, heart, Heart Treasure, Jesus, joy, Lent, Lenten discipline, listening, preparation, Psalm 51, sermon
FROM THE ARCHIVE: This sermon delves into the dynamic of both and rather than either or found in the grace proclaimed in various Lenten disciplines such as the two different prefaces prior to the Eucharistic prayer during Lent as well as a card that invites you to ponder why Lent is time for fasting and feasting.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Baptism of Repentance, Episcopal, Grace, Jesus, Lent, opportune time, Penitence, preparation, Psalm 51, right relationship, sermon, The Great Litany, Time fasting and feasting
The Sermon – The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost Christ Episcopal Church (Annual Meeting Sunday) New Bern, North Carolina – November 16, 2014 This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Annual Meeting, Apostolic Action, Commitment to Jesus Christ, Discipleship, Episcopal, Guiding Values, Matthew 25, Matthew 25:31ff, Parable of the Foolish and Wise Bridesmaids, Parable of the Talents, preparation, Resource Management, sermon
Sermon – Ash Wednesday Christ Episcopal Church New Bern, North Carolina – March 5, 2014 Â This sermon can viewed at
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