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PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW Oct. 1, 2023 – The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost St. Titus Episcopal Church, Durham, NC Stephen Elkins-Williams “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” So we proclaimed in song this morning to begin our service. The words… Continue Reading “Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow – The Rev. Stephen Elkins-Williams, October 1, 2023”
Sister Helen Prejean, in her book, Dead Man Walking, later made into a movie, included this passage: Lloyd LeBlanc has told me that he would have been content with imprisonment for Patrick Sonnier. He went to the execution, he says, not for revenge, but… Continue Reading “The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, September 17, 2023 – Rev. Stephen Elkins-Williams”
Sermon for the Second Sunday in Easter24 April 2022St. Titus’, DurhamTexts: Acts 5:27-32; Rev 1:4-8; John 20:19-31 Good morning. I hope you are safe and healthy. I’m glad to preach today because I want to praise God while I have breath. So, I offer… Continue Reading “Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter, April 24, 2022 – The Rev. Dr. Harmon Smith”
Lent 1-C 6 February 2022 St. Titus, Durham Deut 26:1-11Rom 10:8b-13Luke 4:1-13 The Lord be with you…Let us pray. Gracious Father, we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves, so we beg you to defend us against all adversities and evils that may… Continue Reading “The First Sunday of Lent, March 6, 2022: The Rev. Dr. Harmon Smith”
Proper 19-B 12 September 2021 St. Titus, DurhamThe Reverend Dr. Harmon Smith Isaiah 50:49aJames 3:1-12Mark 8:27-38 Good morning; I hope you are safe and healthy. I’m glad to preach again because I want to praise my Maker while I’ve breath; thank the rector for… Continue Reading “A Sermon for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 19-B, September 12, 2021”
By The Rev. Dr. Harmon Smith The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit – and a special helping of hope – be with all of us. We are entering our 5th month of… Continue Reading “A Sermon for Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020”
By Amy Peterson Pray with me. God, you give life to the dead and call into being things that were not. Enliven our spirits and open our ears to hear only your words today. In the name of the Father, Son, and HS: amen.… Continue Reading “St. Titus’ Coronavirus: Lent 5”
By the Rt. Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple Sometimes, maybe most of the time, it is hard to see what God is up to. If our ways are not God’s ways, what we see in a moment of joy, a moment of disappointment, a moment of… Continue Reading “Seeing Is Believing: Lent 4”
By Fr. Harmon Smith, composed for delivery at St. Titus’ Episcopal Church, Durham, NC, on March 22, 2020. Services were cancelled as a result of COVID-19. You may remember baby Wendell’s baptism several weeks ago when Mo. Stephanie’s instructions to her included this imperative:… Continue Reading “A Sermon for Lent 4”
By the Rev. Sarah Woodard, Deacon Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19 This account from the Gospel of John is the longest conversation… Continue Reading “A Sermon for Lent 3”
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