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Sermon – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24) – October 19, 2025

This sermon is about not losing heart in a world overwhelmed by what the Apostle Paul calls itching ears as we seek to share, with utmost patience, the love we have found in Jesus Christ.

This sermon is about not losing heart in a world overwhelmed by what the Apostle Paul calls itching ears as we seek to share, with utmost patience, the love we have found in Jesus Christ.

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Sermon – Last Pentecost / Christ the King Sunday – November 24, 2024

This sermon begs the question who is a king like no other and how that king invites us to remember with humility and act with kindness as we share a great thanksgiving.

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Sermon – The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 18, 2024

A sermon that reminds how nourishing is both bread of the common sort when consecrated and shared from the holy table, and the Word proclaimed from Holy Scripture, especially when we hear Jesus say, “I am the bread of life” which begs the question: What are the nourishing ingredients in your own spiritual life?

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Sermon – The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 10, 2023

A sermon that moves through personal story and the importance of Jesus centered principles expressed in the Benedictine expression “Listening with the Ear of the Heart” as essential to Living as Shalom.

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Sermon – The Second Sunday after Pentecost – June 11, 2023

A sermon that reflects on our response to God’s initiative in Jesus Christ as we listen with the ear of the heart and strive to live this life with an attitude of loving kindness.

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Sermon – The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 2, 2022

A sermon that asks if we are in the Great Emergence or the Great Extinction as we are invited by God to guard the good treasure that has been entrusted to us, perhaps with guidance of The Rule of St. Benedict undergirded by the passion of St. Francis of Assisi.

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Sermon – The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – July 17, 2022

A sermon that speaks to the balance necessary between judging and perceiving when we are invited by Jesus to join Mary and Martha and listen deeply.

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Sermon – The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday – June 5, 2022

A sermon that hears the tongues of fire that descend on Pentecost as God’s holy universal translator, undoing the quest for earthly power found in the Tower of Babel into the promised loving, life-giving Power of the Holy Spirit.

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The Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – October 31, 2021

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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Sermon for The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 25) – October 27, 2019

The Apostle Paul and noise canceling headphones.

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