Advent 3C
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 3C" held at Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com
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Advent 2C
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 2C" held at Christ Church Episcopal Church, Temple, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com
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Advent 1C - Awake to Joy and Life and Light
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 1C - Awake to Joy and Life and Light" held at St. James Episcopal Church, Taylor, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com
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Thanksgiving and Gratitude
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Thanksgiving and Gratitude, Christ King Year B" held at St. Cyprian Episcopal Church, Lufkin, TX. More at www.texasbishop.com
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An Alarmingly Free God
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "An Alarmingly Free God" held at The American Cathedral in Paris, France. More at www.texasbishop.com
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Sermon preached at the American Memorial Cemetery in Normandy.
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon preached at the American Memorial Cemetery in Normandy. More at www.texasbishop.com
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All Saints' Day
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "All Saints' Day" held at Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Houston, TX More at www.texasbishop.com
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25B A Bartimaeus Theory
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "25B A Bartimaeus Theory" held at Saint Joan of Arc Episcopal Church, Pflugerville, TX More at www.texasbishop.com
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It's A Table
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "It's A Table" held at St. Julian of Norwich Episcopal Church, Cedar Park, TX More at www.texasbishop.com
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Memorial Sermon for the Rev. Carl S. Shannon, Jr.
Ninth Bishop of Texas
Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon for the Rev. Carl S. Shannon, Jr., held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Houston, TX More at www.texasbishop.com
info_outlineThe Christ-child breaks in. Hope breaks in.
For even those who have their wages stolen, their dignity taken away, their lights and heat turned off, the evicted, the homeless, the poor, the rejected, the tormented - hope comes. Hope will come.
It is our presence as Christians in the lives of others that is the present-day icon of Christ’s love in the world. Today when we sit around hearth and home around our own common tables, or as we gather in warm churches and sing, or as we serve the poor, give blankets, sit with the sick and the dying, as we visit the lonely, or when we calm the fear of the anxious or reassure the depressed of God’s love for them and our love for them, when we give to those who cannot repay, those with no recompense - we are the hope that comes.
In fact, in serving, in making humanity our business, we find that they, those to whom we are sent, those to whom we go - that they represent Christ to us.
The season is the opportunity to enact the community that God imagines.