Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Monday, December 20, 2021
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Monday, December 6, 2021
Mendacity to Audacity
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Mendacity to Audacity," preached for St. Johns Marlin.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Make This Advent Matter
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Make This Advent Matter," preached for Grace, Houston.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
The Offense of Christ the King
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "The Offense of Christ the King," preached for Holy Comforter Angleton.
Tear Down This Wall
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Tear Down This Wall," preached for Trinity Port Neches.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
The Christ Figure in Our Midst
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "The Christ Figure in Our Midst," preached for Candler Seminary at Emory University.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Jesus and the Wolfpack
What can a wolf pack teach us about the Gospel? God will not shun us, no matter what, into the wilderness. We’re to be more like God and Jesus Christ, and less like the leaders of the world. Instead, we’re to serve each other.
Preached October 17, 2021 at John’s Carthage
Mark 10:35-45
Monday, May 17, 2021
Overcoming Human Love
A sermon by Bishop Andy Doyle given at St. John's Episcopal Church, LaPorte, TX
Monday, May 3, 2021
Go Out and Baptize
Sermon by Bishop Andy Doyle given at St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church, Nassau Bay, TX
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Do We Know Their Names?
God invites us to love our neighbors and take up our cruciform shepherds' staves into the world, just as Jesus did. A sermon by Bishop Andy Doyle given at Epiphany Episcopal Church, Burnet TX.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Giving Up On "My Way"
A sermon by the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, preached at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Katy TX.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Gifts We Share With Each Other
A sermon preached by Bishop C. Andrew Doyle at Christ the King, Alief, Houston
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
What Must We Be Liberated From?
What must we be freed from so that we may embrace God's invitation to draw closer to God and to one another?
Light in Bleak Midwinter
Christmas Eve sermon for 2020 from Bishop Doyle: Christ comes to us no matter where we are, wherever our friends and family may be found; nothing on Earth can keep your savior away.
Called in Difficult Times
"Non-action in times such as these is not an option for a Christian ... we are invited by this prophecy to lighten the burdens of others." A sermon from Bishop Doyle at Trinity Episcopal Church, Marble Falls.
El Horizonte Donde Dios Nos Encuentra
El sermón del obispo Doyle en St. James 'Austin, una iglesia históricamente negra que encarna la voz profética de Jesús: miremos al horizonte donde Dios se encuentra con nosotros, como lo han hecho generaciones antes.
The Horizon Where God Meets Us
Bishop Doyle's sermon at St. James' Austin, an historically Black church that embodies Jesus' prophetic voice: let us look to the horizon where God meets us, as generations have done before.
Quotes
- "Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer." Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others." Kathleen Norris
- "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
- "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." G. K. Chesterton
- "One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans." C. S. Lewis
- "When we say, 'I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,' we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too. The challenge is to forgive the Church. This challenge is especially great because the church seldom asks us for forgiveness." Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
- "Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it." Bono
- "It's too easy to get caught in our little church subcultures, and the result is that the only younger people we might know are Christians who are already inside the church." Dan Kimball