Sermon - Good Friday 2023
Just twenty years after the event we remember today, a riot broke out in Ephesus, the fourth largest city of the Roman Empire. Ephesus...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Apr 6
- 4 min
Sermon - Maundy Thursday 2023
In the Name... A rabbi once told me the reason that it took ten plagues to convince Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go. He was in De-Nile. In...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 26
- 4 min
Sermon - 5 Lent
In the Name… Sometimes, you just can’t invent this stuff. A letter from the Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina,...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 19
- 5 min
Sermon - 4 Lent
In the Name... A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon,...
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St. Paul's
- Mar 12
- 5 min
Sermon - 3 Lent
In the Name… A Sunday School teacher asked the class, “Why did the Hebrews wander in the desert for forty years?” One boy put up his...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 5
- 5 min
Sermon - 2 Lent
In the Name... Some years ago I heard the phrase, "God so loved the world...that he didn't send a committee." I think we can all relate...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Feb 26
- 5 min
Sermon - 1 Lent
In the Name... There was once an old sailor nearing the end of his days in a nursing home. He confessed to the chaplain that he had...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Apr 3, 2022
- 5 min
Sermon - 5 Lent
In the Name... A woman once confessed to a priest that she thought she might be guilty of the sin of pride. "Whenever I look in a...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 27, 2022
- 5 min
Sermon - 4 Lent
In the Name... There was once a young curate who always preached about confession. No matter what the Sunday texts, he always managed to...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
Sermon - 3 Lent
In the Name... There's a saying that no good deed goes unpunished. In 2003, a woman in Dallas witnessed a violent crime which made the...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 14, 2022
- 5 min
Sermon - 2 Lent
In the Name... Just as the graveside service ended, there was a tremendous burst of thunder and rain began to fall. One mourner turned...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 6, 2022
- 5 min
Sermon - 1 Lent
In the Name... A priest woke up early one exceptionally beautiful and sunny Sunday morning and couldn't resist the temptation to play...
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St. Paul's
- Apr 1, 2021
- 4 min
Sermon - Maundy Thursday
In the Name… An engineer was developing a high speed plane but, in testing, the wings kept falling off. An old rabbi friend of his heard...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
Sermon - Palm Sunday
By ancient tradition, no sermon is preached on Palm Sunday. Our usual liturgy consists of the cheerful Palm Procession followed by the...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 21, 2021
- 5 min
Sermon - 5 Lent
In the Name... I was recently thinking that in Lent we should only eat turtle soup and escargots. No 'fast' food. I knew I should have...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 14, 2021
- 5 min
Sermon - 4 Lent
In the Name.... One winter Sunday, a young Scottish minister had to make an afternoon visit to a farm on the far side of a loch. Noting...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
Sermon - 3 Lent
In the Name... A preacher started his sermon denouncing Hollywood and several people said "Amen." Then, he preached against Wall Street...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Feb 28, 2021
- 5 min
Sermon - 2 Lent
In the Name... The story is told of a young curate who was sent to a parish with an insufferable rector. After serving there a couple of...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Sermon - 1 Lent
In the Name... After Sunday School, a young boy was asked by his parents what he had learned for Lent. Two things, he said. Give alms...
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The Rev. Frank St. Amour, III
- May 21, 2020
- 4 min
Sermon - Ascension Day 2020
In the Name... There is a church in England, dedicated to the Ascension, which is remarkable for a particular piece of artwork. Above...
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