Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, Year B (Sunday, September 8th, 2024)

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"The Good News of the Christian Faith is that it is so much more than just ‘sit back and watch’: God invites us to ‘put down the popcorn’ and join his star-studded cast of saints on a world-bending action-adventure love-story to join him in redeeming the world from sin and death through his Son Jesus, and reach the happy ending of living forever in bliss."

Sermon for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Year B

(September 1st, 2024)

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Psalm 15

Ephesians 6: 10-20

Mark 7: 1-23

"The Good News is that God WANTS YOU. Not just for you to DO things or SAY things or LIVE in a certain way…but God wants YOU. Loves you. Died for you to save you from death to live forever with him growing to more-and-more perfectly love as he loves: To ‘dwell in his tabernacle’ and ‘rest upon his holy hill’."

Sermon for the 13th Sunday after Trinity, Year B

(August 25th, 2024)

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"Where the bad news is that we’re all inclined towards ‘what’s in it for me?’ dipping in-and-out of committing to God when it’s convenient and it’s not, and we all completely deserve for God to say to us all you’re not really into this are you? The Good News is that HIS love and HIS faithfulness to US is always 100% committed. That he took that 100% justified consequence and punishment for our sins and put it on himself in Jesus to take it away from us. Where we deserve Death, God took our Death in our place to give us life forever."

Sermon from Solemn Evensong + Holy Communion for St. Mary's Day (August 15th) 2024.

Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

(August 11th, 2024)

Proper 14, Year B

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"The Good News of the Christian Faith is that we can ‘taste and see how gracious the LORD is’ - that Christianity is not blind faith or blind hope merely in things we read about that happened to somebody else a long time ago…but that God is at-work in those exact same ways right here, right now, in your life and in the lives of those around you."

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Sermon for the 10th Sunday after Trinity, Year B (Proper 13)

Sunday August 4th 2024

Exodus 16: 2-15

Psalm 78: 1-26

Ephesians 4: 1-16

John 6: 24-35

The Good News of the Christian Faith is that you are loved by Jesus, provided-for by Jesus, & equipped by Jesus.

That you have a beautiful, perfect purpose of perfect love from God your Creator: To build & lift up yourself & your part of the Church as a member of the Body of Christ.

Sermon #4 of 4 of the Summer 2024 sermon series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha.

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The Good News of the Christian Faith is: That in following Jesus, whatever we go through, we know that we can ‘trust God’s word’ - that ‘all things that God said will be fulfilled and come to be - not a single word of his speech will prove wrong’ - and that he is moving us towards and preparing us for something far greater than this life: The new, eternal life of the Age to Come.

Sermon #3 of 4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha.

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