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Bishop Gregory Brewer’s homily, April 16, 2015, at the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida, Orlando. John 3:31 — He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth andspeaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no…
For Lent and Easter, I was involved, as usual, in the Holy Week Easter Services at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. It was wonderful. Easter Sunday morning they had over 1,000 people in church, with folding chairs at the second service, and it was glorious. There’s also a new service at the Cathedral at…
Bishop Brewer’s homily March 18, 2015 by Episcopal Florida “Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went.”Valued, protector, one brave man daring in the midst of the threats that his child could be killed, Joseph and his family made the pilgrimage to…
Keeping your faith private, what you are left with is an empty space, frittering your life away with needless pursuits. You can taste everything there is in the world. But we are called to be public with our faith.
The Spirit of God: He made the world; He has control over the world. In our reading today, the heavens are torn open and the Spirit of God comes out like a jet plane. But when the Spirit gets to Jesus, it’s like a dove. God sometimes comes in great power, like a jet plane.…
Bishop Gregory Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida, at Ash Wednesday Eucharist, Feb. 18, 2015. How complete must our turning be, when we are called to turn to God? To come to Ash Wednesday, where we are called to repent? That’s not an easy thing, because it raises for me so many unanswerable questions. What…
Sermon at Coventry, Ocala, Feb. 15, 2015 The Transfiguration: Something had to prepare the disciples — and us — for what was about to happen. LISTEN TO THE FULL SERMON IN .MP3 FORMAT 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this…
Hebrews 12.7-29 7 Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline? 8If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children. 9Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us,…
Bishop’s Address to the 46th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida By the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer Jan. 24, 2015, Orlando, FL When I think of the Diocese of Central Florida, the words that immediately come to mind are Paul’s opening words in the Letter to the Philippians: “I thank my…