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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
This sermon looks at what values should be placed in your personal compass such as the Cardinal Virtues of fortitude, justice, temperance, and prudence as well as those shunned by the rich man dressed in purple who found, upon being tormented in Hades when the clock ran out upon his death, that root of evil was, indeed, his love of money.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: and prudence, Apostle Paul, Cardinal Virtues, Compass and the Clock, Dives, endurance, Episcopal, faith, fortitude or courage, gentleness, Gleanings of the field, godliness, Jesus, Justice, Lazarus, Lazarus beggar, Lazarus sores, Love, love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, pledge card, Rich Man, rich man purple, righteousness, sermon, Stephen Covey, Stewardship, temperance, tithe, What’s in your compass
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 that explores how shrewdly Jesus tells a story that demonstrates right relationship with true riches that upends the supposedly affirmed actions of a dishonest manager with the punchline “You cannot serve God and wealthâ€.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: acute, clock, compass, Compass Clock, Create in me a clean heart, Episcopal, God and Wealth, heaven on earth, Psalm 51, punchline, right relationship true riches, right values, sermon, shrewd, Star Trek, Stephen Covey, three level chess, verbal boxing, what is enough
A sermon that explores how greed undoes the right relationship with God’s abundance and one another when the clock supersedes the compass as an instrument of guidance.
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Category: Sermons
Tags: abundance, barns, compass and clock, Episcopal, greed, idolatry, Jesus, Principles, right relationship, scarcity, sermon, Stephen Covey, teacher
A sermon that hears Jesus proclaiming I came not to be served but to serve as a life giving epitaph with the a story bringing someone a cup of coffee
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Came to serve not be served, Episcopal, epitaph, Friendly Ice Cream, Friendly’s, gladden the hearts, graveyard, haste to be kind, high school reunion, James and John, Jesus, Life is short, quick to love, sermon, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, think with the end in mind, tombstone, travel with us
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
Sermon for Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany (5 Epiphany A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, February 5, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Category: Sermons
Tags: Be the light, Boy Scouts of America, BSA, clock, compass, Core Values, Episcopal, Guiding Principles, Jesus, Light, Pharisees, Prophet Isaiah, Psalm 112, Righteous, scout law, scout oath, Scout Sunday, sermon, Stephen Covey