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This sermon is the concluding part of a four week look at how God uses the least likely people to do God’s work as I muse on how the stories of the Apostles Peter and Paul offer a revelation as to how much God loves us in the cry “I wish I’d paid attention better to God’s holy invitations”
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, believe, Episcopal, fish and nets, for I am a sinful man, God uses least likely people, I can do it myself, I must decrease that he might increase, I wish I’d paid attention better to God’s holy invitations, individualism, Jesus, John the Baptist, Listen to Him, listening, Living the Beatitudes Today, Peter denies Jesus three times, Peter remonstrates Jesus, sermon, Sermon on the Mount, the Resurrected Christ restores Peter, The Transfiguration, total need for God, two ears one mouth, untimely born, We belong to one another, wedding Cana of Galilee, where I set my heart, Yellow Pad Discipline
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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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 imagines puzzle pieces dancing in the Pentecost tongues of fire as the promised Holy Spirit guides the connections that make the Body of Christ Jigsaw Puzzle: Pentecost Edition possible.
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Tags: 50 Days, Body of Christ Jigsaw: Pentecost Edition, Breathes the Holy Spirit, connections, Descent of the Holy Spirit, Episcopal, gifts of the Spirit, Jesus, Jigsaw puzzles, Kingdom of God on earth as on heaven, languages, Lord’s Prayer, make one another stronger, Our Father, Pentecost, puzzle pieces, relationship with God, sermon, the Ascension, Tongues of Fire, Tower Babel, We belong to one another, with God’s help
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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Tags: Apostle Paul, Attitude, Episcopal, humility, hurricanes, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Love, make one another stronger, Mutual Ministry, peace, Philippians, Puerto Rico, sermon, Shalom, sharing, South Florida, Texas, We belong to one another
Annual Meeting Sermon (On the Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany (4 Epiphany A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, January 29, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Annual Meeting, Apostle Paul, Core Values, do justice, Episcopal, Guiding Principles, love kindness, Micah 6:8, more than we can ask or imagine, Rule of St. Benedict, sermon, Spirit of Loving Kindness, Walk humbly with your God, We belong to one another, we can make one another stronger, With God's help
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