Archives
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.
Read More
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
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..
Read More
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