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Talks at Advent — 391 episodes
Does Baptism Really Make Us a New Creation?
At Thy Glad Epiphany
'Terraforming' Our Hearts
A Wake Up Call
To Lift Our Souls
"When They Were Filled"
Allhallowtide and Prayer for the Departed
King on the Cross
The Forgiveness of Sin and the Defeat of Death
"All These Things" in Their Order
Not Saved By a System
Order of Operations - Internal Ordering before External Operations
Resting in the Hope of Resurrection
Mary: the Great Exception or the Great Example?
The Ultimate Co-worker: God
On Sainthood and Manure
Miracles Less Impressive than Love
Fighting Fire with Fire- A Lesson from the Hinnom Valley
What Was the Point of All of Those Miracles?
Will You Find Where You're Blind?
The Cain and Abel Scene Shows What an Offering Means
The Fall and the Call
The Broken God
The Trinity Explicitly
Did You Hear it? It's God the Spirit.
The Blood of Alban
The Seven Gifts of the Spirit
Turn Your Attention to the Ascension
Tribulations in a Christ-Conquered World
What Finally Transformed the Apostles?
The Guileless Truth: He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!
The Cross's Path to Life
Judas and Peter Contrasted
The Weakness of Violence and the Strength of Sacrifice
The Timely Veils
Our Faith and God's Faithfulness
Miracles Are Beside the Point
Failure Transformed
Our Lady's Great Reversal
The Three Universal Temptations and Their Remedies
The "What, Why, and How" of Fasting
The Heroic Enlightener
The Virgin and the Value of Veils
A Call at the First Hour
The Faithfulness of St. Matthias
What Is Caesar's?
Christ Destroys Sin in You
Where Our Music Comes From: A Historical Overview
God's Authority and the Powers that Be
The Human and Divine Wills
The Earthiness of Epiphany
The Extraordinary Light of the Epiphany
God In the Threshold
God Became a Baby So You Can Become God
God Chose a Chain of Sinners
Saint John Our Preparation Paragon
Saint Nicholas and the Example of Small Deeds
The Advent of Our God
Holiness Through Thankfulness
Life As a Journey
What, Precisely, is Forgiveness?
Above All, the Shield of Faith
Christ the King, the King of Peace
On Physical and Spiritual Wholeness
The Summary of Law, the Summary of Man, the Summary of God
Humility: the Requisite Virtue
Degrees of Death and the Solution for Sin
Choose Your Master
Connecting One on One with God
The Gospel of Weakness and Humility
The Holy City Wholly Exceeded
Standing Firm in the Face of Temptation
Awake to the Sight of Transfiguring Light
How We Follow the Feeding of Four Thousand
Dirty Feet Till We're Complete
As Saints We Will Govern Stars
Mary is the Ark of God
The Radically Inclusive God
Standing with St. Alban
Under the Veils of Bread and Wine
The Holy Spirit as Revealed at Pentecost
On Wanting to Die...
Ascension: Raising Our Nature, Rising as Sacrifice, Reigning as King
Every Good and Perfect Gift
The Homage and Honor We Give to the King of Kings
The Bishopric of All Believers
The Gospels' Capacity for Veracity
The Joyful Leaven of Pascha
Psalm 118 Revealed in Palm Sunday
Jesus vs. The Liars
Jerusalem: from Old Locality to New Reality
When God Announced His Own Birth
A House United
Letting the Glory Shine Through
Fasting with Jesus in the Desert
Always Carry Caritas
Love Yourself, Love Your Neighbor, Love God
Where Fair is Too Spare
A Positive Produce Policy
God Is In Control
Enter the God Who Loves Wine
Provisions For the Most Important Journey
Why Circumcision?
Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above
Sights and Signs and Knowing the Times
Need a New Beginning?
Complete and Yet Incomplete, Fulfilled and Yet Expecting
Signs and Wonders and the Faithless's Blunder
How To Be Yourself
Attaining to Sainthood
You Have No Rights in the Kingdom of Heaven --- Only Complete Fulfillment
The Meaning of Life: In a "How," In a "Who"
From the Lowest Place, We Are Raised
Seeking First Our End
Beyond Skin Deep: The Healing Jesus Intends for Us
The Good Groan of the God-Man
The Attainability of Humility
The Cautionary Tale of Old Jerusalem
Fast and Rest, Suffer and Live
The First Among the Saints
The Son of Man in His Glory
Far Beyond Pharisees
The Peace in Trusting God's Superabundance
A Message For Insiders: Practice Radical Mercy
The Real Means to Life, Liberty, and Happiness
The Gracious Veil: Christ as Food
The Trinity Means Literally Everything
The Necessity of Charity
Christ's Ascension and Our Salvation
The World Overcome and God as Our Father
Bringing Goodness Out of Badness
The Pregnancy of Pre-Ascension
Dying to Self In the Light of Easter
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: For Today We Live in Christ
Freed From Fear
Peter Learning Love
We Can't 'Undo' Our Sins. Only Jesus Can.
Psalm 118 and He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord
Out of Egypt, Out of the House
Who Accuses Me?
Sustenance, Comfort, and True Fulfillment
God and Your Best Laid Plans
Countering the Flesh, the World, and the Devil
A Faith that Follows
Bishop's Address: The Saving Judgment and the Joy of Repentance
On Fasting and Confession
A World of Wheat and Weeds
Love Liberates Us from Preferring the Pigs
Cana, the Cross, and the Kingdom In This Hour
How To Find Jesus When He's Missing
Chalk It Up To the Epiphany
The Human Name For the Human God
On This Silent Night
Prepare We In Our Hearts a Home
On Judging Rightly
Made For the Middle
Willing a Better Advent
Christ Is the Only Source of Life. There Is No Other.
Put Your Soul's Needs First
Venerate, Supplicate, Imitate
Sub-Monarchs Under Christ Our King
Reorienting Ourselves To the Kingdom
Autumn Anxiety About Christmas
What To Do at Church
Your Dirt Doesn't Define You
Switching to Story Mode
Life As a Letter of Recommendation
Come to the Temple and Watch Out for that Elephant
Recognizing What Ought to Be
Do Your Efforts Match Your Values?
The Fruit of the False
Raised and Reigning - Mary's Example
Go And Be Reconciled
Casting With Confidence
Sword To Scallop - An Apostle's Fruit
Turn and Be Found
Heavenly Patriots Make the Best American Patriots
Reflecting the Taxis in God into the World
The Saints, Saint Alban, and Us
Be Built as the Temple of God
Actively Waiting in Ascensiontide
The Ascension of Priest, King, and Human Being
The Proper Way to Pray the Propers
Birth Pangs in Eastertide
Look To the Lord To Lead
Foundational Faith-Food
From Bottom to Top: The Cross Becomes Our Resurrection Road
The Shape of the Cross, the Shape of The Man
Take It By Force
Passiontide: the Pathetic Burnout of Lies and Violence
Lent and Freedom's Paradoxical Prison
No Demons, No Distractions, No Doubt
On Faithfulness and Failure
Angels Shall Bear Thee Up
Glorious Abandon: the Lenten Fast
Break Free from Blindness
Story: The Veil and Vehicle of Veritas
God Invented Fairness, Yet He Transcends It
Gaining Freedom Through Submission
God Sleeps to Wake Us Up
A Call to American--Nay--*Cosmic* Unity
What God's Like at a Party
Where'd God Go?
Do the Due: Our Epiphany Homage
The Power of the Name, and the Comfort of the Same
Peace On Earth, and At Home, Shalom
Prepare Ye in Your Heart a Home
The True You is What You Do
Zeal Needs Knowledge (So Stick with St. Nick)
Conspiring to Love
Freed from Egypt, but Beware of Babylon
Forgiving Others, Take Your Part
A Quiet Miracle
Victory Over Sin, Death, and the Grave
Becoming Beatified
Halloween: Saints Displacing Spooks
Christ is King, and That's the Truth
The Home-Field Advantage
Mother Mary
Arrest Death in Its Tracks. You Have that Power.
Today's the Day. Today's the Only Day.
The Sozo Code - Salvation in Three Steps
Opening Others to the Truth through Love
A Call to be Cultured: Giving Roots to Our Souls
That Elusive Quality: Righteous Anger
The Final Chapter: Abraham's Faith, David's Throne, and Yahweh's Return
The First to Follow Christ...All the Way to Resurrection
Recognizing False Prophecy a.k.a. Truthiness
Miraculous Meals Happen in the Desert
The Pearl (Persons) of Great Price
A Miracle that Was a Parable
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Building Unity and Reversing Babel
Gardening When the End Is Near
The Essential Ascension
Get Whatever You Ask!
The Call to Agape
A Little While Till We're Born
Encountering the True Cross
Holy Week: Going On Offense
Veiled from View: Trusting in Uncertainty
Come Together to Rejoice, in Quarantine
Jacob and Esau and... the Transfiguration?
The Fast to Fix Israel's Failed Forty
The Lowdown on Fasting
A Story With Two Perspectives Gives Us Two Lessons
Tilling and Growing: the Patient Work
Time to Work
The Fire and the Love
Law, Levites, and Light
Descending the Mountain in Mercy
The Last of Epiphany's Triad: The First of Jesus' Miracles
We're Words that Work as One (or else We're Gibberish)
The Opening of the Kingdom of God
A Christmas to Die For
Christ in Christmas, and Us in Christ
Prepare the Way
Moderating Mountains: the Straight Way
Signs of the Times: Lift Up Your Heads
An Advent Intention in Tension
Prepared for Paradise: Practicing Perpetual Pardon
Looking for Hope and Finding Jesus
God Wants You. Yes, You.
Members One of Another
In Defiance of Death
The King of Glory
This World is Crazy
The Deep Down Joy
Are We Alone in the Universe?
God and Goodness
She Went to the Cross Out of Love
Worship the King and Reverence the Queen
Make a Gift of Yourself
A Treatise on Love and Prayer
Sheep Have One Job To Do
When Mary Fell Asleep
Trust in God Who Accomplishes the Impossible
The Radical New Law Is Simply a Radical New Life
God's Call Isn't Telemarketing
Judging Aright
God's Effort in Seeking, and the Value of the Sought
The Excuses We Use to Miss the Feast
The Divine Presence - Now, and Then
The Trinity and Our Faith
Does God Help Those who Help Themselves?
The Ascension: Bringing Man to God
Everything the Ascension Means
In Jesus' Name: A Magical Formula?
Pain to Gain
Lessons from the Good Shepherd
Watching Your Soul in the Easter Season
The Power of Passiontide
Preparation for Communion and a Playbook for Lent
The Double Down - With Faces Set Toward Jerusalem
Who Gets the Blessing?
He Shall Give His Angels Charge Over Thee
Blind Faith: Is There Any Other Kind?
New Seed: Noah, Jesus, and Us
Laboring Late (and the History of the World)
The Sharp Edged Present and the Christian Life
C.S. Lewis: Sacramental Imagination and the Romance of Orthodoxy
The Uncomfortable Binary
Four Names for the Fortieth Day of Christmas
From Magi to Miracles: The Path Through Epiphanytide
Human and Divine and a Whole Lotta Wine
Touching Two Seasons: Christ's Baptism as a Threshold
Epiphany - God's Threefold Manifestation
O Come Let Us *Approach* Him
The Word Became Flesh...Our Flesh
We Are Forerunners - Preparing the Way in Our Own Day
What to Expect - Waiting for Christ
How To Wait
Advent and the Four Last Things
A Test, A Gift, A Miracle
Act and Encounter
Saints for Serving
Approximating the Philippians
As Subjects to the True King
Life Lessons from St. Luke
On Being and Doing
Love of God, Love of Neighbor
The Low Place
A Strange Land: Baptising the Culture
All The Rest Will Be Added
Thank God - The One Thing Needful
A Lawyer, A Lesson, and An Ultimate Question
The Center of All Creation
Save the Neighbor, Save the World
Why Jesus Weeps
The Parable With an Antihero
About the Liturgy
Not Obvious Wolves
Where Are You? : Learning God's Math
Participating in the Sacrifice of the Mass
The Radical Otherness
Don't Judge Me!
The Intercession of Saints
Making Excuses
Launching Off with First Things
What Must I Do (For Eternal Life)?
The Role of the Holy Spirit
The 80-Day Mountain
Episcopal Address from Bishop John
The Question and The Answer
Friends of Christ, Servants of All
Following the Good Shepherd into the Flames
Peace Be Unto You
This Is Easter
The Cross is the Key to Life
The Theme of Passiontide: It's All About Jesus
As God's Favorite Children, You Must Be Like Him
Toward a Paschal Victory
Harrowing Our Hearts
Introducing: Lent!
Rejoicing in the Course He Runs
For Beauty and For Glory
Jesus Begins with Wine
The Heart of Worship
Wise Gentiles and Faithful Jews
Becoming Heirs in the Fullness of Time
The Freedom of Christmas
The Importance of Preparing for and Receiving Communion
An Anglo-Saxon Advent Sermon
Seeing the End at the Beginning
Beware the Pseudo-Christs
Love and Mercy and the Kingdom of God
How to Wrestle
Weaving a Garment of Love
A Miracle Through Matthew's Eyes
Semper Gumby
Sit At the Lowest Place
St. Augustine on the Three Places to be Raised from the Dead
That's Not How I Wanted to be Healed
On the Good Samaritan: A Deeper, Ancient Voice
Be Opened: Ears That Can Hear and Tongues That Will Speak
Except the Lord Build the House
I am Jerusalem, My Heart is the Temple
Knowing God Through Experience
It's Never Just About Bread
The Platinum Plan for Producing Purified Persons
Why Did the Disciples Follow Jesus?
The Mass Propers
A Woman Clothed with the Sun
Love = Deeds
Abraham's Bosom
Whosoever Believeth: What It Means to Believe
Obedience As the Path to Holiness
Between Ascension and Pentecost, Where is God?
The Ascension: To Paradise and Beyond
Anything You Ask