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Story as Sermon – The Innkeeper’s Long Night and The Innkeeper’s Witness – The Fourth Sunday of Advent – December 21, 2025

This story as sermon begins with The Innkeeper’s Long Night that sets up the reconnection with Jesus 30 years later in The Innkeeper’s Witness and reminds all that the best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ.

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Sermon – The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 16) – August 24, 2025

My sermon finds guidance and strength in praying Psalm 71 (which I chant) as we ponder the power found in God’s initiative and our response to the love made known in Jesus Christ.

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Sermon – The Second Sunday of Advent – December 8, 2024

This sermon shares a story I wrote called “The Innkeepers Witness” offered using this fictional character to remind us during Advent that the best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ. Henry Van Dyke’s The Other Wiseman inspired how I wove the innkeeper’s story into appropriate scripture settings. There’s a musical setting as well which can be found under the Deep Church Tab.

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Sermon – The Third Sunday after Easter – April 14, 2024

A sermon that finds inspiration and direction in a cry to Jesus to “So clothe us in your Spirit, that we reaching forth our hands in love” that we always listen deeply before we speak as witnesses to that love.

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Sermon – The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday – March 24, 2024

A sermon that is more a meditation that helps you find a bible character from the time of Jesus that grounds your answer during Holy Week to this question: Were you there?

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Sermon – The Third Sunday of Easter – April 23, 2023

A sermon that connects how Cleopas and his companion might have engaged the words “I believe, help my unbelief” (found in Mark 9:24) when meeting the resurrected Jesus on the Road to Emmaus.

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The Third Sunday of Easter Sermon with link to Worship On Demand – April 26, 2020

A sermon about the importance of remembering those moments when you realized Jesus walks with you.

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Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent – December 15, 2019

A Godly Play “I Wonder” style sermon about us lived through imagining the Innkeeper meeting the adult Jesus.

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The Innkeeper’s Witness performed on the Second Sunday of Advent – December 10, 2017

An Advent musical story that places a non-scriptural character and ourselves deep into the story of Jesus.

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Sermon – The Third Sunday In Lent – March 19, 2017

Sermon for The Third Sunday In Lent (3 Lent Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, March 19, 2017. This sermon can viewed at

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