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Talks at Advent — 391 episodes

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Does Baptism Really Make Us a New Creation?

2

At Thy Glad Epiphany

3

'Terraforming' Our Hearts

4

A Wake Up Call

5

To Lift Our Souls

6

"When They Were Filled"

7

Allhallowtide and Prayer for the Departed

8

King on the Cross

9

The Forgiveness of Sin and the Defeat of Death

10

"All These Things" in Their Order

11

Not Saved By a System

12

Order of Operations - Internal Ordering before External Operations

13

Resting in the Hope of Resurrection

14

Mary: the Great Exception or the Great Example?

15

The Ultimate Co-worker: God

16

On Sainthood and Manure

17

Miracles Less Impressive than Love

18

Fighting Fire with Fire- A Lesson from the Hinnom Valley

19

What Was the Point of All of Those Miracles?

20

Will You Find Where You're Blind?

21

The Cain and Abel Scene Shows What an Offering Means

22

The Fall and the Call

23

The Broken God

24

The Trinity Explicitly

25

Did You Hear it? It's God the Spirit.

26

The Blood of Alban

27

The Seven Gifts of the Spirit

28

Turn Your Attention to the Ascension

29

Tribulations in a Christ-Conquered World

30

What Finally Transformed the Apostles?

31

The Guileless Truth: He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!

32

The Cross's Path to Life

33

Judas and Peter Contrasted

34

The Weakness of Violence and the Strength of Sacrifice

35

The Timely Veils

36

Our Faith and God's Faithfulness

37

Miracles Are Beside the Point

38

Failure Transformed

39

Our Lady's Great Reversal

40

The Three Universal Temptations and Their Remedies

41

The "What, Why, and How" of Fasting

42

The Heroic Enlightener

43

The Virgin and the Value of Veils

44

A Call at the First Hour

45

The Faithfulness of St. Matthias

46

What Is Caesar's?

47

Christ Destroys Sin in You

48

Where Our Music Comes From: A Historical Overview

49

God's Authority and the Powers that Be

50

The Human and Divine Wills

51

The Earthiness of Epiphany

52

The Extraordinary Light of the Epiphany

53

God In the Threshold

54

God Became a Baby So You Can Become God

55

God Chose a Chain of Sinners

56

Saint John Our Preparation Paragon

57

Saint Nicholas and the Example of Small Deeds

58

The Advent of Our God

59

Holiness Through Thankfulness

60

Life As a Journey

61

What, Precisely, is Forgiveness?

62

Above All, the Shield of Faith

63

Christ the King, the King of Peace

64

On Physical and Spiritual Wholeness

65

The Summary of Law, the Summary of Man, the Summary of God

66

Humility: the Requisite Virtue

67

Degrees of Death and the Solution for Sin

68

Choose Your Master

69

Connecting One on One with God

70

The Gospel of Weakness and Humility

71

The Holy City Wholly Exceeded

72

Standing Firm in the Face of Temptation

73

Awake to the Sight of Transfiguring Light

74

How We Follow the Feeding of Four Thousand

75

Dirty Feet Till We're Complete

76

As Saints We Will Govern Stars

77

Mary is the Ark of God

78

The Radically Inclusive God

79

Standing with St. Alban

80

Under the Veils of Bread and Wine

81

The Holy Spirit as Revealed at Pentecost

82

On Wanting to Die...

83

Ascension: Raising Our Nature, Rising as Sacrifice, Reigning as King

84

Every Good and Perfect Gift

85

The Homage and Honor We Give to the King of Kings

86

The Bishopric of All Believers

87

The Gospels' Capacity for Veracity

88

The Joyful Leaven of Pascha

89

Psalm 118 Revealed in Palm Sunday

90

Jesus vs. The Liars

91

Jerusalem: from Old Locality to New Reality

92

When God Announced His Own Birth

93

A House United

94

Letting the Glory Shine Through

95

Fasting with Jesus in the Desert

96

Always Carry Caritas

97

Love Yourself, Love Your Neighbor, Love God

98

Where Fair is Too Spare

99

A Positive Produce Policy

100

God Is In Control

101

Enter the God Who Loves Wine

102

Provisions For the Most Important Journey

103

Why Circumcision?

104

Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above

105

Sights and Signs and Knowing the Times

106

Need a New Beginning?

107

Complete and Yet Incomplete, Fulfilled and Yet Expecting

108

Signs and Wonders and the Faithless's Blunder

109

How To Be Yourself

110

Attaining to Sainthood

111

You Have No Rights in the Kingdom of Heaven --- Only Complete Fulfillment

112

The Meaning of Life: In a "How," In a "Who"

113

From the Lowest Place, We Are Raised

114

Seeking First Our End

115

Beyond Skin Deep: The Healing Jesus Intends for Us

116

The Good Groan of the God-Man

117

The Attainability of Humility

118

The Cautionary Tale of Old Jerusalem

119

Fast and Rest, Suffer and Live

120

The First Among the Saints

121

The Son of Man in His Glory

122

Far Beyond Pharisees

123

The Peace in Trusting God's Superabundance

124

A Message For Insiders: Practice Radical Mercy

125

The Real Means to Life, Liberty, and Happiness

126

The Gracious Veil: Christ as Food

127

The Trinity Means Literally Everything

128

The Necessity of Charity

129

Christ's Ascension and Our Salvation

130

The World Overcome and God as Our Father

131

Bringing Goodness Out of Badness

132

The Pregnancy of Pre-Ascension

133

Dying to Self In the Light of Easter

134

Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation

135

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: For Today We Live in Christ

136

Freed From Fear

137

Peter Learning Love

138

We Can't 'Undo' Our Sins. Only Jesus Can.

139

Psalm 118 and He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord

140

Out of Egypt, Out of the House

141

Who Accuses Me?

142

Sustenance, Comfort, and True Fulfillment

143

God and Your Best Laid Plans

144

Countering the Flesh, the World, and the Devil

145

A Faith that Follows

146

Bishop's Address: The Saving Judgment and the Joy of Repentance

147

On Fasting and Confession

148

A World of Wheat and Weeds

149

Love Liberates Us from Preferring the Pigs

150

Cana, the Cross, and the Kingdom In This Hour

151

How To Find Jesus When He's Missing

152

Chalk It Up To the Epiphany

153

The Human Name For the Human God

154

On This Silent Night

155

Prepare We In Our Hearts a Home

156

On Judging Rightly

157

Made For the Middle

158

Willing a Better Advent

159

Christ Is the Only Source of Life. There Is No Other.

160

Put Your Soul's Needs First

161

Venerate, Supplicate, Imitate

162

Sub-Monarchs Under Christ Our King

163

Reorienting Ourselves To the Kingdom

164

Autumn Anxiety About Christmas

165

What To Do at Church

166

Your Dirt Doesn't Define You

167

Switching to Story Mode

168

Life As a Letter of Recommendation

169

Come to the Temple and Watch Out for that Elephant

170

Recognizing What Ought to Be

171

Do Your Efforts Match Your Values?

172

The Fruit of the False

173

Raised and Reigning - Mary's Example

174

Go And Be Reconciled

175

Casting With Confidence

176

Sword To Scallop - An Apostle's Fruit

177

Turn and Be Found

178

Heavenly Patriots Make the Best American Patriots

179

Reflecting the Taxis in God into the World

180

The Saints, Saint Alban, and Us

181

Be Built as the Temple of God

182

Actively Waiting in Ascensiontide

183

The Ascension of Priest, King, and Human Being

184

The Proper Way to Pray the Propers

185

Birth Pangs in Eastertide

186

Look To the Lord To Lead

187

Foundational Faith-Food

188

From Bottom to Top: The Cross Becomes Our Resurrection Road

189

The Shape of the Cross, the Shape of The Man

190

Take It By Force

191

Passiontide: the Pathetic Burnout of Lies and Violence

192

Lent and Freedom's Paradoxical Prison

193

No Demons, No Distractions, No Doubt

194

On Faithfulness and Failure

195

Angels Shall Bear Thee Up

196

Glorious Abandon: the Lenten Fast

197

Break Free from Blindness

198

Story: The Veil and Vehicle of Veritas

199

God Invented Fairness, Yet He Transcends It

200

Gaining Freedom Through Submission

201

God Sleeps to Wake Us Up

202

A Call to American--Nay--*Cosmic* Unity

203

What God's Like at a Party

204

Where'd God Go?

205

Do the Due: Our Epiphany Homage

206

The Power of the Name, and the Comfort of the Same

207

Peace On Earth, and At Home, Shalom

208

Prepare Ye in Your Heart a Home

209

The True You is What You Do

210

Zeal Needs Knowledge (So Stick with St. Nick)

211

Conspiring to Love

212

Freed from Egypt, but Beware of Babylon

213

Forgiving Others, Take Your Part

214

A Quiet Miracle

215

Victory Over Sin, Death, and the Grave

216

Becoming Beatified

217

Halloween: Saints Displacing Spooks

218

Christ is King, and That's the Truth

219

The Home-Field Advantage

220

Mother Mary

221

Arrest Death in Its Tracks. You Have that Power.

222

Today's the Day. Today's the Only Day.

223

The Sozo Code - Salvation in Three Steps

224

Opening Others to the Truth through Love

225

A Call to be Cultured: Giving Roots to Our Souls

226

That Elusive Quality: Righteous Anger

227

The Final Chapter: Abraham's Faith, David's Throne, and Yahweh's Return

228

The First to Follow Christ...All the Way to Resurrection

229

Recognizing False Prophecy a.k.a. Truthiness

230

Miraculous Meals Happen in the Desert

231

The Pearl (Persons) of Great Price

232

A Miracle that Was a Parable

233

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

234

Building Unity and Reversing Babel

235

Gardening When the End Is Near

236

The Essential Ascension

237

Get Whatever You Ask!

238

The Call to Agape

239

A Little While Till We're Born

240

Encountering the True Cross

241

Holy Week: Going On Offense

242

Veiled from View: Trusting in Uncertainty

243

Come Together to Rejoice, in Quarantine

244

Jacob and Esau and... the Transfiguration?

245

The Fast to Fix Israel's Failed Forty

246

The Lowdown on Fasting

247

A Story With Two Perspectives Gives Us Two Lessons

248

Tilling and Growing: the Patient Work

249

Time to Work

250

The Fire and the Love

251

Law, Levites, and Light

252

Descending the Mountain in Mercy

253

The Last of Epiphany's Triad: The First of Jesus' Miracles

254

We're Words that Work as One (or else We're Gibberish)

255

The Opening of the Kingdom of God

256

A Christmas to Die For

257

Christ in Christmas, and Us in Christ

258

Prepare the Way

259

Moderating Mountains: the Straight Way

260

Signs of the Times: Lift Up Your Heads

261

An Advent Intention in Tension

262

Prepared for Paradise: Practicing Perpetual Pardon

263

Looking for Hope and Finding Jesus

264

God Wants You. Yes, You.

265

Members One of Another

266

In Defiance of Death

267

The King of Glory

268

This World is Crazy

269

The Deep Down Joy

270

Are We Alone in the Universe?

271

God and Goodness

272

She Went to the Cross Out of Love

273

Worship the King and Reverence the Queen

274

Make a Gift of Yourself

275

A Treatise on Love and Prayer

276

Sheep Have One Job To Do

277

When Mary Fell Asleep

278

Trust in God Who Accomplishes the Impossible

279

The Radical New Law Is Simply a Radical New Life

280

God's Call Isn't Telemarketing

281

Judging Aright

282

God's Effort in Seeking, and the Value of the Sought

283

The Excuses We Use to Miss the Feast

284

The Divine Presence - Now, and Then

285

The Trinity and Our Faith

286

Does God Help Those who Help Themselves?

287

The Ascension: Bringing Man to God

288

Everything the Ascension Means

289

In Jesus' Name: A Magical Formula?

290

Pain to Gain

291

Lessons from the Good Shepherd

292

Watching Your Soul in the Easter Season

293

The Power of Passiontide

294

Preparation for Communion and a Playbook for Lent

295

The Double Down - With Faces Set Toward Jerusalem

296

Who Gets the Blessing?

297

He Shall Give His Angels Charge Over Thee

298

Blind Faith: Is There Any Other Kind?

299

New Seed: Noah, Jesus, and Us

300

Laboring Late (and the History of the World)

301

The Sharp Edged Present and the Christian Life

302

C.S. Lewis: Sacramental Imagination and the Romance of Orthodoxy

303

The Uncomfortable Binary

304

Four Names for the Fortieth Day of Christmas

305

From Magi to Miracles: The Path Through Epiphanytide

306

Human and Divine and a Whole Lotta Wine

307

Touching Two Seasons: Christ's Baptism as a Threshold

308

Epiphany - God's Threefold Manifestation

309

O Come Let Us *Approach* Him

310

The Word Became Flesh...Our Flesh

311

We Are Forerunners - Preparing the Way in Our Own Day

312

What to Expect - Waiting for Christ

313

How To Wait

314

Advent and the Four Last Things

315

A Test, A Gift, A Miracle

316

Act and Encounter

317

Saints for Serving

318

Approximating the Philippians

319

As Subjects to the True King

320

Life Lessons from St. Luke

321

On Being and Doing

322

Love of God, Love of Neighbor

323

The Low Place

324

A Strange Land: Baptising the Culture

325

All The Rest Will Be Added

326

Thank God - The One Thing Needful

327

A Lawyer, A Lesson, and An Ultimate Question

328

The Center of All Creation

329

Save the Neighbor, Save the World

330

Why Jesus Weeps

331

The Parable With an Antihero

332

About the Liturgy

333

Not Obvious Wolves

334

Where Are You? : Learning God's Math

335

Participating in the Sacrifice of the Mass

336

The Radical Otherness

337

Don't Judge Me!

338

The Intercession of Saints

339

Making Excuses

340

Launching Off with First Things

341

What Must I Do (For Eternal Life)?

342

The Role of the Holy Spirit

343

The 80-Day Mountain

344

Episcopal Address from Bishop John

345

The Question and The Answer

346

Friends of Christ, Servants of All

347

Following the Good Shepherd into the Flames

348

Peace Be Unto You

349

This Is Easter

350

The Cross is the Key to Life

351

The Theme of Passiontide: It's All About Jesus

352

As God's Favorite Children, You Must Be Like Him

353

Toward a Paschal Victory

354

Harrowing Our Hearts

355

Introducing: Lent!

356

Rejoicing in the Course He Runs

357

For Beauty and For Glory

358

Jesus Begins with Wine

359

The Heart of Worship

360

Wise Gentiles and Faithful Jews

361

Becoming Heirs in the Fullness of Time

362

The Freedom of Christmas

363

The Importance of Preparing for and Receiving Communion

364

An Anglo-Saxon Advent Sermon

365

Seeing the End at the Beginning

366

Beware the Pseudo-Christs

367

Love and Mercy and the Kingdom of God

368

How to Wrestle

369

Weaving a Garment of Love

370

A Miracle Through Matthew's Eyes

371

Semper Gumby

372

Sit At the Lowest Place

373

St. Augustine on the Three Places to be Raised from the Dead

374

That's Not How I Wanted to be Healed

375

On the Good Samaritan: A Deeper, Ancient Voice

376

Be Opened: Ears That Can Hear and Tongues That Will Speak

377

Except the Lord Build the House

378

I am Jerusalem, My Heart is the Temple

379

Knowing God Through Experience

380

It's Never Just About Bread

381

The Platinum Plan for Producing Purified Persons

382

Why Did the Disciples Follow Jesus?

383

The Mass Propers

384

A Woman Clothed with the Sun

385

Love = Deeds

386

Abraham's Bosom

387

Whosoever Believeth: What It Means to Believe

388

Obedience As the Path to Holiness

389

Between Ascension and Pentecost, Where is God?

390

The Ascension: To Paradise and Beyond

391

Anything You Ask