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A sermon that explores the questions: How do you handle receiving the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most? How does your manner of reception live as Shalom?
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Tags: Episcopal, Forgiveness, glitter of award, God’s invitations, God’s yearning, Golden Calf, green parachute stole, heart, How do you handle receiving the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most?, humility, I must decrease that he might increase, Jesus, listening carefully to God, living as shalom, peace, sermon, Servanthood, Shalom, treasure, US Army Reserve Chaplain
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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Tags: Episcopal, Guiding Principles, Jesus, John McQuiston II, listening with the ear of the heart, living as shalom, love your neighbor, peace, Rule of St. Benedict, scout law, scout oath, sermon, Shalom, The Passover
A sermon that begins a nine week series entitled Living as Shalom with connections to peace, koinonia, justice, mercy, and grace, as we find Shalom at the heart of the mission of the Church to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, Episcopal, Grace, Justice, Koinonia, Mercy, peace, restorative justice, retributive justice, sermon, Shalom, stoning of Stephen, wooden spoon
A sermon that calls us to remember that no matter how far we stray from accepting God’s love, that love is always seeking to restore right relationship with God and one another so that joy may conquer despair.
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Tags: 9-11-01, belong to one another, Community, Episcopal, Jeremiah was a bulldog, Jesus, Joy conquers despair, lost coin, lost sheep, lost wedding ring, Middletown New Jersey, Prophet Jeremiah, September 11th, sermon, Shalom, Three Dog Night, Twin Towers, widow coin, with God’s help
The Impact of Repetition – A Being of Use Teaching: Practical methods for making mission and purpose memorable in congregational settings
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Category: Liturgical Resources
Tags: Being of Use, Boston University, churches, communication, congregations, Episcopal Church, Impact, James C. Fenhagen, memorable by repetition, mission statements, Mutual Ministry, pastors, preachers, Psalm 19:14, purpose statements, radio advertising sales, repetition, Shalom, Teaching, WCAS Radio
A sermon that links the deep meaning of shalom to embracing by word and action this statement: “We belong to one another. Together, with God’s help, we can make one another stronger.”
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Capable Wife, children, Community, confronting the greatest, Episcopal, humility, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Koinonia, Mutual Ministry, Ordination of Women, peace, power over, power with, sermon, Servanthood, Shalom, violin
an understanding of shalom as expression of community that lives deeply in Micah 6:8
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Community, conversion inch wide mile long, Episcopal, Houston Astros, Jim Fenhagen, Justice, kindness, King Josiah, Kingdom of heaven is at hand, Koininia, light over darkness, Micah 6:8, Mutual Ministry, OT Chronicles, OT Kings, sermon, Shalom, Torah, Tough Jesus sayings, walk humbly with God
The impact of Steinbeck’s Tom Joad on my understanding of what it means to follow Jesus.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Baptismal Covenant, be like Jesus, Episcopal, Grapes of Wrath, itching ears, Jesus, Jesus dangerous, Jesus subversive, John Steinbeck, Kingdom of God, persistent widow, Prophet Jeremiah, sermon, Shalom, sound doctrine, Tom Joad, Unjust judge
A sermon about how being Shalom (Peace) makes hard conversations about hot button topics possible.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: anxiety, Army Chaplain, Be ready, conversation, Episcopal, God, Jesus, lilies of the field, listening, Love, Martin Luther King, MLK, necessary use of force, peace, principle, race, rifle, Shalom
Sermon for The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 21 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, October 1, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Paul, Attitude, Episcopal, humility, hurricanes, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Love, make one another stronger, Mutual Ministry, peace, Philippians, Puerto Rico, sermon, Shalom, sharing, South Florida, Texas, We belong to one another