Friday, December 19, 2014

We are the Workers God is the Sower

Sermon preached on the celebration and blessing of St Mary Magdalene Manor 2014


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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Ours is a Yes Gospel

Sermon preached Advent 2B 2014 St Timothy's Houston and St Martins Confirmation


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Memorial Sermon for the Rev. Ben Shawhan

Preached at Holy Spirit Houston, 2014


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Fishers of People

Sermon preached at patronal feast of St Andrew at St Andrews in the Heights Houston 2014


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Tables - From Thanksgiving through Advent to Christmas

Preached at Epiphany and at Lord of the Streets Adent 1B


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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