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This sermon explores how servant-leadership and a cup of coffee is at the heart of the response of Jesus to the claims for power by his disciples then and now.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostolic Action, Christian Formation, Commitment, commitment outcome, cup of coffee with saucer, Discipleship, Episcopal, evangelism, James and John, Jesus, Jesus not be served but to serve, Jesus responds to the claims for power by his disciples then and now, righteous relationship, Robert K. Greenleaf, sermon, Servant-Leadership, share love, Stewardship, Worship
A sermon that ponders how well we can stay open to God’s invitations to be hearers and doers of the word through a visible practice that connects with how deep and broad is the love found on the transformed cross.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: an open posture, Arms of love, be quick to listen, Episcopal, God’s invitations, hardwood of the cross, hearer and doer, Jesus, Letter of James, no blinders, sermon, share love, so clothed in the Spirit, spiritual practice, Transfiguration
A sermon that links the pandemic with the in-between time from the Ascension to Pentecost with Grace like rain.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Apostle Peter, Ascension, blessing of God, chapel pranks, Election of Matthias, Episcopal, Grace, Grace like rain, helium balloons, holy spirit, Nashotah House, pandemic, Pentecost, sermon, share love, Tod Agnew
Sermon for The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 16 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 26, 2018.I mention The Transactional Analysis of Money in my sermon.My sermon can be viewed…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, attitude of thanksgiving, Episcopal, Feed each other, First Intentional Communion, general confession, gleanings of the fields, I am the bread of life, I'm sorry to God, Jesus, Jesus is enough, mission, scarcity, sermon, share love, Stewardship, story difference heaven hell, tithe, transactional analysis, transactional analysis of money
Sermon for The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 15 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 19, 2018. I mention First Intentional Communion in my sermon. My sermon can be viewed…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: attitude of thanksgiving, C.S. Lewis, Episcopal, Feed each other, First Intentional Communion, general confession, gleanings of the fields, I am the bread of life, I'm sorry to God, Jesus, mission, share love, Stewardship, story difference heaven hell, tithe
Sermon for The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 14 B RCL) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – August 12, 2018. I mention First Intentional Communion in my sermon. My sermon can be viewed…
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Category: Sermons
Tags: C.S. Lewis, Episcopal, Feed each other, First Intentional Communion, general confession, I am the bread of life, I'm sorry to God, intentional, Jesus, mission, preparation, sanctuary, sermon, share love, story difference heaven hell
An Easter sermon that celebrates what it means to believe as we once again find the real news in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Easter, Easter Sermon, Episcopal, Fake News, Good News, Jesus, Matthew 25:31, Real News, Resurrection, sermon, share love
The Sermon – The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 23 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – October 9, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: 10 Lepers, baptism, Bishop Brent's Collect for Mission, Canaanite Woman, Critical scripture study, EfM, Episcopal, Jesus, Jesus Great High Priest, Jesus spelled love, One Samaritan, Royal Priesthood, Samaritan Woman at the Well, sermon, share love, Show yourself to the priests, Thank you
FROM THE ARCHIVE: This sermon looks at how Jesus is really spelled LOVE against the backdrop Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission and Humberto Eco’s Name of the Rose.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Brent Collect for Mission, Episcopal, Get behind me Satan, Jesus, Jesus spelled love, laughing Jesus, Name of the Rose, Peter, Psalm 27, Rodney Dangerfield, sermon, share love, Transfiguration, Umberto Eco
The Sermon – The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 23 Year B) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – October 11, 2015. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Calico Fair, Christ Church Middletown NJ, Episcopal, God's steward, Jesus, Jesus loved him, Pearl of Great Price, Relationship, Rich Young Ruler, sermon, share love, St. Ann's Sayville NY, St. Mark's Warren RI, welcome back
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