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Hope Springs Eternal — 210 episodes

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The Bad News That Makes the Good News Good

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God Keeps Promises to the Dead

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God Is The Center

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Jesus Doesn't Wait for Your Doubt to Resolve | A Second Sunday of Easter Sermon

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The Sound of Hell Undone | The Great Vigil at St Martin's

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What Sound Defines Easter?

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We Have to Hear This Before Easter Comes

8

Love That Doesn't Stop | Fr. Alan on Maundy Thursday

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What Happens When You're Left All Alone

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What Happens When You Are Truly Seen?

11

Does God Really Love?

12

Your Lent Practice Is Useless Without This One Thing

13

This Is Not A Self-Help Sermon

14

God Shows Us Who Jesus Is So We Can Follow Him When It Gets Dark

15

Blessed is the Church God is Making

16

When a Voice is Silenced, Jesus Speaks

17

Do You Know What I Know?

18

Do You See What I See?

19

Do You Hear What I Hear?

20

Do You Hear What I Hear (Children's Sermon)

21

We Are Not Worthy

22

Healing Words in a Sick World

23

The Stories We Don't Hear

24

Pride and Humility

25

Jesus Sees You

26

What Do You Do When You Realize You Screwed Up?

27

A Turning Point

28

From Slave to Brother

29

The Good News of Death Threats

30

What's In Your Backpack?

31

Dependence Day

32

God's Love Endures Forever (Kid's Sermon)

33

God's Love Endures Forever

34

Crazy Water

35

Jesus Is Always With Us

36

Who is Called?

37

Peace Be With You

38

Woven Together - Easter Sunday

39

Woven Together - Good Friday

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Woven Together - Maundy Thursday

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Woven Together: Palm Sunday

42

What Does Love Smell Like?

43

God's Love Runs Out

44

Jesus is a Chicken

45

God is Near...Alleluia

46

The Most Honest Day of the Year

47

Where Do We Put Our Trust?

48

New Year, New You

49

Seeing Jesus

50

A Culture of Mercy

51

God is Love, On Every Page

52

All Things New

53

Find Yourself in the Story

54

The Snake and the Cross

55

Remember the Covenant

56

What Do Christians Think About Lent?

57

Jesus Loves Y'all

58

Now For the Hard Part

59

The Light of Christmas

60

Hold the Light

61

What Does Love Look Like?

62

Growing in Love, Part Two

63

Rooted in Faith, Growing in Love

64

Be Loved

65

Kingdom of Heaven

66

Simple Signs

67

You Rock

68

Looking to Heaven

69

A Bigger Table

70

Love Has the Final Word

71

Act Two

72

It's True (a Sermon for Easter Sunday)

73

You Matter, You are Not Alone, You are Loved

74

Death is Hell

75

Intimacy, Vulnerability, Silence, Waiting (a sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2023)

76

Parched

77

Kindred

78

Fully Exposed

79

Changes and Chances (A sermon for Last Epiphany A 2023)

80

Salt & Light (a sermon for Epiphany 5A, 2023)

81

The Road Ahead (A Sermon for Epiphany 4A, 2023)

82

Turning Points (A Sermon for Epiphany 3A)

83

A Firsthand Faith (A Sermon for Epiphany 2A 2023)

84

The Poetry of Christmas (A Sermon for Christmas 1, 2022)

85

Tell Me the Story (A Sermon for Christmas Eve, 2022)

86

God Knows the Way Out

87

Viriditas (A Sermon for Advent 3A, 2022)

88

Give Thanks (a Sermon for the Eve of Thanksgiving, 2022)

89

We Belong (A Sermon for the Feast of All Saints’, 2022)

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Feeling Small

91

Enduring Faith

92

Enduring Word (a Sermon for Proper 23C, 2022)

93

An Enduring Legacy (a Sermon for Proper 22C, 2022)

94

Endure: Letters to Timothy (a Sermon for Proper 21C, 2022)

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Seeking the Lost (A Sermon for Proper 19C 2022)

96

Historical Markers: All In (A Sermon for Proper 18C 2022)

97

Historical Markers: Eyes of Humility (a Sermon for Proper 17C)

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Historical Markers: Reckless Love (a Sermon for Proper 16C, 2022)

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Historical Markers: Expectant Hope (a Sermon for the Feast of St. Mary, 2022)

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Historical Markers: Fearless Faith (a Sermon for Proper 14C, 2022)

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Historical Markers: Bold Prayer

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Historical Markers: Radical Welcome

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A Harvest of Hope

104

The Unbearable Love of God (A Sermon for Trinity Sunday 2022)

105

Lament & Hope (a sermon for Easter 7C, 2022)

106

Love Makes All Things New (a Sermon for Easter 5C, 2022)

107

We're Just Getting Started (a Sermon for Easter 2C, 2022)

108

The Story is Just Getting Started (a Sermon for Easter Sunday, 2022)

109

The Story is Good (A Sermon for Good Friday, 2022)

110

The Story Isn’t Over (A Sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2022)

111

The Story Is Broken (A Sermon for Palm Sunday, 2022)

112

Open Our Hands ( A Sermon for Lent 2C, 2022)

113

I Hate Ash Wednesday

114

12 Mighty Orphans ( A Sermon for Epiphany 6C, 2022)

115

God’s Agenda of Love

116

It’s Time (A Sermon for Epiphany 2C 2022)

117

Expectations

118

Love Became Flesh (A Sermon for Christmas 1, 2021)

119

God Is Here! (A Sermon for Christmas Eve, 2021)

120

The Next Right Thing (a sermon for Advent 3C, 2021)

121

Our Kingdoms Fall (A Sermon for Christ The King Sunday, Year B 2021)

122

A Failure of Imagination (a sermon for the Feast of St. Martin)

123

Walking in Love (A Sermon for Proper 26B - 2021)

124

Following the Way (A Sermon for Proper 25B - 2021)

125

Giving Up Stewardship

126

God Hears Our Voice (a sermon for Proper 21B 2021)

127

Every Step of the Way (a sermon for the Feast of Philander Chase)

128

I Wonder... (A Sermon for Proper 19B)

129

The Lord is Near (A Sermon for Proper 16B)

130

The Bread of Life (A Sermon for Proper 14B, 2021)

131

A Worthy Calling (A Sermon for Proper 13B, 2021)

132

Follow Jesus (a sermon for Proper 9B 2021)

133

Jesus’ Touch (A Sermon for Proper 8B, 2021)

134

Faith and Fear (A Sermon for Proper 7B, 2021)

135

More Than You Can See (A Sermon for Proper 6B 2021)

136

The Family Table (A Sermon for Proper 5B 2021)

137

For God So Loved... (a sermon for Trinity Sunday 2021)

138

Unlock the Doors (A Sermon for Pentecost)

139

Thresholds (A Sermon for Easter 7B, 2021)

140

There is Only Us (A sermon for Easter 5B, 2021)

141

The Frightening Message of Easter

142

The Story Isn’t Over (A Sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2021)

143

The Way of Jesus (A Sermon for Lent 2B)

144

Can Anything Good Come Out Of Nazareth?

145

Growing Up and Leaving Home

146

God Is Always With Us (A Sermon for Christmas Day, 2020)

147

Risk and Hope (A Sermon for Proper 27A 2020)

148

This World Is Not About Us (A Sermon for Proper 27A 2020)

149

How Often Should I Forgive? (A Sermon for Proper 19A)

150

The Yoke of Christ (A Sermon for Proper 9A, 2020)

151

Love Triangles (A Sermon for Proper 7A, 2020)

152

Together (a sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, 2020)

153

Listen to him. Get up. Don’t be afraid. (A sermon for Last Epiphany 2020)

154

We’ll leave the light on for you (a sermon for Epiphany 5C)

155

Show up, look around, and wait. (A sermon for the Feast of the Presentation).

156

A Life Changing Experience (A Sermon for Epiphany 2A 2020)

157

Children of God (A Sermon for Epiphany 1A 2020)

158

Jesus, Remember Me (a sermon for the last Sunday after Pentecost, 2019)

159

When Temples Fall (a sermon for Proper 28C 2019)

160

Life Is Hard, Do Not Lose Faith (a sermon for Proper 19, 2019)

161

God Found Us

162

We Are In This Together (a sermon for Heathwood Haol's Convocation)

163

There Are No Strangers in Houston Right Now (a sermon for Proper 17C 2019)

164

The Divisive Love of God (a Sermon for Proper 15C)

165

Waiting (A Sermon for Proper 14C 2019)

166

Language Matters (A Sermon for Proper 13C, 2019)

167

Unity, Not Uniformity (A Sermon for Easter 7C 2019)

168

The Scent of Resurrection

169

We Have Seen the Risen Christ (A Sermon for for the Feast of the Resurrection - 2019)

170

Our Time Has Come (a homily for Monday of Holy Week, 2019)

171

On Earth, As It Is In Heaven (A Sermon for Lent 2C, 2019)

172

Crossing Boundaries for Love (a sermon for Wednesday in the first week of Lent)

173

Who Is My Neighbor? (a Lenten series at St. John's Episcopal Church, Winnsboro, SC)

174

The Fasting God Wants (a sermon for the Friday after Ash Wednesday)

175

We Know How This Thing Ends (A sermon for the last Monday after the Epiphany)

176

Right Here. Right Now. Today (A Sermon for Epiphany 3C, 2019)

177

Timing is Everything (A Sermon for Epiphany 2C)

178

What Are We Waiting For? ( A Sermon for Advent 1C 2018)

179

Sacrificial. Selfless. Reckless. (A Sermon for Proper 27B - 2018)

180

Live and Love Like the Saints (a sermon for Proper 26B

181

I Want To See Again (A Sermon for Proper 25B 2018)

182

Four Hard Things (a sermon for the Feast of Ignatius of Antioch)

183

Pocket Knives and the Kingdom of God

184

Listen Like a Child (A Sermon for Proper 22B)

185

The River Is Moving (A Sermon for EDUSC Clergy Conference)

186

Stand With Christ, Stand With Others (A Sermon for Proper 7B)

187

Reckless Love of God (A Sermon for Trinity Sunday)

188

This is Our Altar Call (A Sermon for Easter 7B)

189

Bentrup, Germany (A Sermon for Easter 6B)

190

Plenty of Work for Love to Do (A Sermon for Easter 5B)

191

You’re Children of God, Now Act Like It! (A Sermon for Easter 3B)

192

God is (Revealing, Healing, Purifying) Light (A Sermon for Easter 2B)

193

Nobody Ever Gets to Stay (A Sermon for for the Feast of the Resurrection - 2018)

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Nobody Dies Alone (A Sermon for Lent 5B)

195

The Hardest Commandment (A Sermon for Lent 3B)

196

Luke, Jesus, and the Hebrew Bible

197

Resurrection Over Survival (A Sermon for Lent 2B)

198

Transforming the Ordinary (A Sermon for Epiphany 3B)

199

Beloved Children of God (A Sermon for Epiphany 1B, 2018)

200

Just The Beginning (A Sermon for Advent 2A - 2018)

201

Join the Team (A Sermon for All Saint’s Day)

202

Practice Loving Your Neighbor (A Sermon for Proper 25A)

203

Minted in Christ (A Sermon for Proper 24A)

204

Turn and Live (A Sermon for Proper 21A)

205

Generosity Over Jealousy (A Sermon for Proper 20A)

206

How Often Should I Forgive? (A Sermon for Proper 19A)

207

Look to the Rock That Will Last

208

Mary, Moana, and the Gospel (A Sermon for St. Mary's Day 2017)

209

Transformed for a Purpose (A Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration)

210

Be Transformed - A Sermon for VBS Sunday