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Sermon – The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13) – August 3, 2025

Posted on August 3, 2025 by billwctcoach

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This sermon finds illumination in John Henry Newman’s prayer “Stay With Me” as we so often diminish ourselves by storing up treasures rather than being rich towards God.

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Sermon – The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany – February 4, 2024

Posted on February 4, 2024 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that counters the noise of the world and joins Jesus in a quiet space to pray using the prayer Stay with Me by John Henry Newman as a guide.

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Sermon – The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – July 16, 2023

Posted on July 16, 2023 by William Carl Thomas

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A sermon that reflects on the how the seeds of love sown by God again and again and again in what appears to be a wasteful manner are really the abundant invitation to discover that the light of God’s love shines as the catching force in and through the most surprising of times, places and persons.

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