This sermon considers how celebrating All Saints day helps prepare us to talk turkey on Thanksgiving day.
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A sermon that probes my inner thoughts and response to my initial thanksgiving and then the unsettled feeling upon finding forty dollars as I tell a personal story that is as truthful as it is creative.
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Tags: Archbishop Temple’s Prayer of Self-dedication, attitude of loving kindness, attitude of thanksgiving, Bishop Brent’s Collect for Mission, Devil made me do it, do justice, Episcopal, Flip Wilson, Grateful, inadequacy, Jesus, John McQuiston II, listen carefully for God’s direction, love kindness, Micah 6:8, principle, sermon, thanksgiving, the practice of gratefuls, the responsivities of baptism, The Rule of St. Benedict, Walk humbly with your God, walking away from the best way to follow Jesus
A sermon which reminds us that faith which has made you well is about professing and acting on the desire for right relationship with God as found in Micah 6:8 and so evident in the Rule of St. Benedict and the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
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Tags: 10 Lepers, do justice, faith, faith has made you well, John Michael Talbot, leper, love kindness, Micah 6:8, right relationship, sermon, St. Benedict, St. Francis of Assisi, thanksgiving, The Episcopal, Walk Humbly