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This sermon explores how the habit of saying thank you helps you hold onto the values placed in your compass which strengthen you to withstand the limitations caused by the demands exerted by your clock.
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Category: Sermons, Stewardship
Tags: 10 Lepers, Baptismal promises, Cardinal Virtues, compass and clock, demands, Do a good turn daily, Episcopal, Fortitude, heart, Henrygram, Jesus, limitations, one thank you, Principle Centered Leadership, Prudence, Rev Henry Doyle, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey, Stewardship, Thank you, What’s in your compass, what’s in your pledge card
My sermon speaks to getting our priorities straight rather than simply writing resolutions by exploring guiding values expressed in the promises made at baptism as found meaningful in prayers and scriptures. I do this in a very personal way by sharing my six key spiritual principles.
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Category: Best of WCTcoach, Sermons
Tags: balance, Chares R Hobbs, congruity, Episcopal, Guiding Values, Jesus, Jesus’ baptism, love your neighbor as your self, Micah 6:8 en français, new year’s resolutions, promises made a baptism, sermon, Seven Habits, spiritual principles, Stephen Covey, The Rule of Saint Benedict, Time Power, Unifying Principles
This sermon explores the guiding values in the expression “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger” through the lens of dependence, independence, and inter-dependence.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: and inter-dependence, Apostle Paul, circle, Community, corporate ladder of power, dependence, Episcopal, Guiding Values, Holy Trinity, independence, Jesus, ladder, not linear but circular, pilgrims on a journey, relationships, responsibility, sermon, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey, The Servant Song, thought like a child, We belong to one another, we can make one another stronger, with God’s help
A sermon the looks at the habit of “Begin with end in mind†will seeking the next rector.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Be Proactive, Begin with the end in mind, Delighted, Episcopal, epitaph, Expected, Joseph, listening, live with integrity, Mary, post-it note Sunday, Presentation of Our Lord, Prophet Anna, Required, search for new rector, seek first to understand, sermon, Seven Habits, Simeon, Stephen Covey, well done good and faithful servant
Sermon for The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 10 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – July 15, 2018. My sermon can be viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 1979 BCP, Baptismal Covenant, Collect of the Day, Core Values, Episcopal, Episcopal General Convention, Guiding Principles, Herod, John the Baptizer, sermon, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey, With God's help