Sermons
Sermon for Second Sunday After Epiphany — January 17, 202
The Ups-and-Downs of Love
As a young child growing up in rural Massachusetts I often spent time on farms. My father served as the priest for Christ Memorial Church North Brookfield and would take my younger brother and me with him when he brought Holy Communion to the homebound. I was 7 and Nathaniel, ...
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Sermon for Feast of Our Lord’s Incarnation December 24, 2020
Touched by an Angel
Isaiah 9:2-7 — Titus 2:11-14 — Luke 2:1-14(15-20) — Psalm 96 This is a sermon about how God answers the prayer on earth as it is in heaven. I am recording this sermon for broadcasting with a video clip of my friends Arianna and Leila who came and helped me record what St James...
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Sermon for 4 Advent — December 20, 2020
Tell Your Story
What is the best story your parents ever told you? Maybe it was your mom telling the story of your birth? Or your father telling how he wooed your mother? Or maybe your favorite story is your own, about how you played the best practical joke ever on your best friend?
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Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Advent — December 6, 2020
Cry in the Wilderness
I am in the wilderness crying “Salvation.” Since I am at the Canopy Walk in Bernheim Forest recording this sermon for you I am not completely in the middle of nowhere but you get the feel for being all alone surrounded by nature. When I look out and see the expanse of wilderne...
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Sermon for the 24th Sunday After Pentecost — November 15, 2020
Last Sunday of Annual Campaign
This is a stewardship sermon — about God’s stewardship: how God manages God’s household. To sum it up, God gets to do what God wants with God’s resources.
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