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Imagine A Sermon for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost October 29, 2023, Preached at St. John’s, Richmond The Rev. Robin Teasley Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the Negeb, and the Plain—that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar. The Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.” Then Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, at the Lord’s command. He was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day. Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired and his v

Reminders A Sermon for the 18 th  Sunday after Pentecost, October 4, 2020 The Rev. Robin Teasley   Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labor and do all your work.   Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or

Do Something A Sermon for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi October 1, 2023 The Rev. Robin Teasley     He split open the sea and let them pass through; * he made the waters stand up like walls.  He led them with a cloud by day, * and all the night through with a glow of fire.  He split the hard rocks in the wilderness * and gave them drink as from the great deep.  He brought streams out of the cliff, * and the waters gushed out like rivers.  Psalm 78:13-16   If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.  Philippians 2:1-4   “What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first