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Holy Triune God, Open our eyes to your holy presence. Open our ears to your holy call. Open our hearts to your holy love.[1] Jesus looked...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Oct 4, 20217 min read
Divine Intent and then ... Reality
How many of you know that there are TWO creation stories in Genesis? Go ahead... raise your hands. Clergy, you don’t get a vote! I know...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Oct 4, 20218 min read
A Sermon on Salt
Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? In order to not lose the saltiness of my sermon, let me begin...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Sep 21, 20216 min read
Jesus is Watching
Children of God! Do you think of yourselves as that? What does our being followers of Jesus, followers of the cross mean to you? That is...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Sep 13, 20217 min read
Tongue, Bit, Bridle, & A Wild Stallion
Back in 1997, the year I graduated from college, I began dating a girl that I really liked who had just recently become a born-again...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Sep 7, 20217 min read
Spitting and Sighing and Favoritism
How many parents in the congregation this morning understand the power of spit? I know that mothers do! A little bit of spit on a...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Aug 31, 202110 min read
Protect Your Heart
In the Collect for Purity, as we open the service this morning, we refer to how our hearts are open to God. In our Epistle from James, we...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Aug 27, 20215 min read
This is Difficult
You will be glad to know that this is the last Sunday that we get to hear the bread of life discourse from the Gospel of John. Jesus...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Aug 23, 20216 min read
The Living Bread
When I was a budding adolescent growing up in the 90s, a man by the name of Matt Groening introduced the world to the first American...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Aug 10, 20217 min read
Transfiguration, Transformation, Nadia, Rohr and Grace
One of the things I noticed when I was visiting in Israel three years ago was that cities, and temples, and fortresses were built on top...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Aug 3, 20216 min read
Answering the Call to Ordained Ministry
Who would’ve thought three and a half years ago when our family walked through those red doors that our journey would lead us through...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jul 26, 20217 min read
We are the Children of God
It is good to be back! As you may know Kim and I just returned from watching our Grandkids for a week while their parents where on a...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jul 19, 20218 min read
Reconciling
Walls of hostility are built between groups and there seems to be no way around them. But walls do come down, The Berlin Wall went up in...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jul 13, 20216 min read
Adoption, Redemption and Inheritance
Our collect for this morning reads, …and grant that they may know and understand what things they ough t to do, and also may have grace...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jul 7, 20215 min read
Power Does its Work in Weakness
For the last few weeks, my friends have put up with my peppering our conversations with one liners from Tea Leoni, the star of the...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jun 29, 20217 min read
Faith in Action
Last week our Gospel from Mark told us the story of Jesus and the disciples crossing to the other side of the Sea of Galilee – into...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jun 21, 20215 min read
"Why are you Afraid? Have you still no Faith?"
Have you ever been on a boat? In storm and been afraid? My parents were missionaries and when we moved to Brazil South America, we went...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jun 18, 20216 min read
Transition and Growth
My son Walker is a timber framer. What that means is that he takes huge pieces of whole wood timbers and makes cuts and joints often with...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jun 7, 20215 min read
Who is My Family?
May I speak to you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Good morning! What do y’all think of my giraffe hat? It's...
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St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church
Jun 1, 20215 min read
Undeserved, Unconditional, and Unending
May only the word of God be spoken, may only the word of God be heard, in the name of the Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy...
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