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This sermon reflects on how receiving the promised Advocate, another way of understanding the gift of the Holy Spirit, is very much how grace falls like rain as the parish enters into a time of preparation and promise.
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Sermon – The Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete Sunday – December 14, 2025
This sermon rejoices that Mary said YES to be the mother of Jesus and explores how prayer prepares us to say yes to God’s holy invitations and how prayer strengthens us to live into that yes.
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Sermon – The Second Sunday of Advent – December 7, 2025
This sermon finds itself in the midst of Annual Meeting as these words from the Apostle Paul to the Romans echo: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Sermon – Christ the King Sunday (Last Pentecost -Proper 29) – November 23, 2025
This sermon weaves together elements from the Collect of the Day for Christ the King Sunday, Taizé chant, the reading from Second Thessalonians, the renunciations and affirmations made at Holy Baptism, and the Gospel of Luke as Jesus hangs on the cross flanked by two thieves, and culminates with two prayers that speak to our response as we enter into Advent and once again explore God’s initiative in Jesus Christ.
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Sermon – The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28) – November 16, 2025
This sermon contemplates how shalom is woven through an image of a rope to guide our understanding of scripture, reason, and tradition especially when it comes to celebrating the Kirkin’ O the Tartan as a mark of koinonia.
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THE SPIRITUAL SURPRISE MAKING VETERANS DAY AND MY COMING TRIP TO NORMANDY ALL THE MORE MEANINGFUL
I didn’t realize until just the day before I was to wear my camouflage stole while preaching and leading worship on the Sunday before Veterans Day, that my sermon had a deeper meaning for me.
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Sermon – The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 27) – November 9, 2025
This sermon wonders as we approach Veterans Day how the words the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians inspire those who find themselves in harm’s way defending what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of during World War Two as freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fearas I prepare for my own pilgrimage to the beaches of Normandy.
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Sermon – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24) – October 19, 2025
This sermon is about not losing heart in a world overwhelmed by what the Apostle Paul calls itching ears as we seek to share, with utmost patience, the love we have found in Jesus Christ.
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Sermon – The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23) – October 12, 2025
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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Sermon – The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 22) – October 5, 2025
This sermon wonders if the words the Apostle Paul shared with Timothy could have been part of the moment the slaver John Newton moved from infidel and libertine to eventually become priest and give us the truth of
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! -
Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21) – September 28, 2025
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.
How Well Can You See Your Story
A practice for being on the dance floor while observing action from the balcony.
On Reflection
We don’t learn from experience; we learn from reflection on experience. Exploring listening through essays and videos.
Deep Church
Resources to support a group of people as they gather with a willing expectation intimately to share the love of God.
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Sermon – The Great Vigil of Easter – April 19, 2025
A sermon that reflects on the ancient and current examples of God’s saving deeds in history that links the foot washing act of love by Jesus to how is he his death and resurrection is life-giving when we see and find the Light of the transfigured Christ as the source of strength as Peter did.
Sermon – The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord – January 12, 2025
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.
Being Of Use
A new website, BeingOfUse.net is in development. Look to this website to share that which is useful from many persons dedicated to living the Prayer of Self-Dedication.