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This sermon is the second part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as we strive for the greater gifts that Saul now Paul recognized after he had his came to himself moment: one that I know from God’s holy invitation to let go the presumptuous sins that sought dominion in my own life.
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A sermon about listening, learning, and loving from the balcony perspective of an older person.
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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 featuring the wisdom found in the caution expressed in Psalm 19:13 as “Above all, keep your servant from presumptuous sins” and how such an awareness connects to sharing the life giving love of Jesus.
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A sermon that sees the Apostle Paul’s statement “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus” as a caution rather than an exhortation when shared with Psalm 19’s “Above all, keep your servant from presumptuous sins.”
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A sermon that confronts presumptuous sins, untamed tongues, and the arrogance of opinion with a call to humility and the deep spirituality of the Prayer attributed to St. Francis.
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Tags: 9+11=20, 9+12=21, Academia, Arrogance of Opinion, Community of Hope, Episcopal, humility, James 3:1-12, joy conquer despair, Middletown NJ, Prayer attributed to St. Francis, presumptuous sins, Psalm 19:13, seminary, sermon, Untamed tongue
A sermon grounded in how well the Apostle Paul in Ephesians speaks to our fractured COVID ravaged culture.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, baptism, belong to one another, COVID disciplines, craftiness, deceitful scheming, Episcopal, God’s help, humility, in the world, Jesus the head of the body, Letter Ephesians, Love, one another, people’s trickery, presumptuous sins, proper 13, Psalm 19:13, sanctuary, sermon, stronger, truth in love, wear masks, winds of doctrine
Sermon for The Third Sunday in Lent (3 Lent B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – March 4, 2018. You can view the teaching of Bishop Stokes on the Five Marks of…
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Tags: 5 Marks of Mission, Bishop Chip Stokes, boldly, Diocese of New Jersey, Episcopal, Grace, Jesus, joy, Litany for Lent, Litany of Penitence, paschal feast, presumptuous sins, sermon, sinfulness, story
The Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 19 Year B)Â preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 13, 2015. You can read the full version of Bishop Stokes’ 10 Guiding Principles of…
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The Sermon – The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Christ Episcopal Church New Bern, North Carolina – October 5, 2014 Theme: Guided by Spiritual Principles that Promote Trust in God This sermon can viewed at
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