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The Kindness Shuffle

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St. Paul’s famous passage about love didn’t first show up at wedding. 

“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.”

– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.

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Mirror, Mirror

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“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body through many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”

– 1 Corinthians 12:12

Learn from the first Christians about the meaning of words like “baptism” and “church.” 

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.  

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Reclaiming Veritas: Science and Faith

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Have you heard the rumor that faith and  science don’t go together?

“Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.”

– Mark 10:52

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on Mark 10:46-52 to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.

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The Power of Kind Hearts

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How can we allow kindness to flow naturally into our words and deeds?

“Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us?”

– Mark 9:39-40

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on and Mark 9:38-50 to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.  

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The Power of Kind Deeds

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The smallest deed can be used by God to transform a life.

“Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” – Mark 9:35

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on and Mark 9:30-27 to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.  

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The Power of Kind Words

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Words are powerful, a kind word given at the right moment can transform a life.

“Who do you say that I am?”

– Mark 8:29

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on James 3:1-12 and Mark 8:27-38 to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.  

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The Presence

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There is something at the heart of the Christian life. Do you know what it is?

“But will God indeed dwell on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, must less this house that I have built!”

1 Kings 8:27

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on 1 Kings 8:1, 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43 and John 6:56-50, to  a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.   

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The Sacred Fire

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One of the oldest images of the Order reveals the way of life of its members.  

“The LORD said to Moses, ‘Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there, and I will give you the tables of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their [the people’s] instruction.”

– Exodus 24:12

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on Exodus 24:12-18 and John 12:27-36 at the annual chapter meeting of the Anglican Order of Preachers (aka “The Dominicans”) held at St. John the Baptist Cathedral, San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

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Keep Your Palms Open

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There is a fundamental to the faith that can set you free to live life to the fullest.

I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with my weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

– 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based on 2 Corinthians 12:2-10, to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.

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Reach a Little Lower

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Is the life of faith about doing big things for God? Maybe it’s about something else.

“The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would spout he does not know how.”

– Mark 4:26

Fr. Goodrich preached this sermon, based  on Mark 4:26-34, to a live congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa.

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