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Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 17, 2023

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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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 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 3, 2023

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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Sermon – Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 11, 2022

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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The Impact of Repetition – A Being of Use Teaching

The Impact of Repetition – A Being of Use Teaching: Practical methods for making mission and purpose memorable in congregational settings

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The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon – September 19, 2021

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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Sermon for The Sixth Sunday After The Epiphany – February 16, 2020

an understanding of shalom as expression of community that lives deeply in Micah 6:8

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Sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 24) – October 20, 2019

The impact of Steinbeck’s Tom Joad on my understanding of what it means to follow Jesus.

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Sermon for The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 14) – August 11, 2019

A sermon about how being Shalom (Peace) makes hard conversations about hot button topics possible.

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Sermon – The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost – October 1, 2017

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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