Sermons

Fr. Bill Carroll – Trinity Sunday, June 4, 2023

Listen to my appeal.  Agree with one another.  Live in peace.  And the God of love and peace will be with you.  In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Today’s Epistle contains one of the oldest Trinitarian formulas in the New...

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Mother Vivian Shelby – Pentecost Day, May 28, 2023

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. So today we find the disciples locked in a room afraid. Now Mary has already told them that she saw Jesus risen. But they're still afraid. Jesus appears in the locked room and says, “Peace be with you.”...

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Fr. Bill Carroll- Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 21, 2023

Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God.  Cast all your anxiety upon him. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Let me tell you a little about a friend of mine.  Mark died about fifteen years ago.  He was a member of our home...

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Fr. Bill Carroll – Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 7, 2023

Jesus said, “Have I been with you all this time…and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. This sermon is, more or less, what I said in school chapel this week.  We...

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Fr. Bill Carroll – Second Sunday of Easter, April 16, 2023

Jesus said, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you…” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Some of you have heard me tell the story before.  When I was just five years old, my best friend and his little sister died in a fire.  ...

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Fr. Bill Carroll – Good Friday, April 7, 2023

Were you there when they crucified my Lord? These words come from a beloved hymn.  We will sing it later as a wooden cross is brought into the church.  The hymn is a spiritual in the Black church tradition.  It comes out of four hundred years of suffering and...

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