Wealth of Mind and Heart and Hand - SERMON
Christian stewardship is not about money, but it IS about wealth. God gives us Wealth of Mind and Heart and Hand, and God expects us to use this wealth with authority. See More
Wisdom from above is . . . full of mercy and good fruits
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I am an Episcopal priest serving The Church of the Good Shepherd in the quaint seaside town of Dunedin, FL.
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January 29, 2012. In the second of the stewardship sermons, we explore how we actually NEED to give of our "wealth" - and our wealth is certainly not limited to our money!
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WHAT DOES "KARPOS KALOS" MEAN?
"Karpos kalos" literally means, in Greek, "fruit good". The inspiration for using it is James 3:17, which says "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy." More . . .
WHAT I'M READING NOW
The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church FOR the Community, by Eric Swanson and Rick Rusaw.
Ancient Faith, Future Mission: Fresh Expressions in
the Sacramental Tradition by Stephen Croft, ed.
Ancient Faith, Future Mission: Fresh Expressions in
the Sacramental Tradition by Stephen Croft, ed.
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Wealth of Mind and Heart and Hand - SERMON
Christian stewardship is not about money, but it IS about wealth. God gives us Wealth of Mind and Heart and Hand, and God expects us to use this wealth with authority.
Posted by Becky on January 29, 2012 at 7:30pm
God the Giver of All Good - SERMON
Do we give God our first fruits or the leftovers? That depends on what we actually want from life, from church, from ourselves. Whatever we decide, everything we have comes from God the Giver of All Good.
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God the Giver of All Good - SERMON
Do we give God our first fruits or the leftovers? That depends on what we actually want from life, from church, from ourselves. Whatever we decide, everything we have comes from God the Giver of All Good.See More
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Ready for Epiphany? - SERMON
We finished our Christmas Pageant yesterday; the magi finally made it up the church aisle. We'll observe the Baptism of Jesus next week. This week, we celebrated the game-changing presence of God exploding into our comfortable, safe, secure world. I asked everyone: are you Ready for Epiphany?See More
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Boopah and the Christmas of Hopes and Fears - SERMON
Christmas is when the hopes and fears of all the years met for the first time. It still happens. In my Christmas sermon, I tell a story about when they met in rural Louisiana in 1964, in one of our best family stories, Boopah and the Christmas of Hopes and Fears.See More
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