A Life Animated by Faith, Hope and Love

On September 11 we remember lives and loves lost. This Sunday we analyze and ask ourselves, "What animates our lives? Is it love? Is it faith? Is it love?" Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II was examplary in showing us a life animated by her Faith in Jesus Christ and her love for God and her people. In her Chrismas address of 2011 she said, "Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves, from our recklessness or our greed. God sent into the world a unique person, neither a philosopher nor a general, important though they are. But a savior with the power to forgive."

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 11 Sep 2022.

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 

Psalm 14 

1 Timothy 1:12-17 

Luke 15:1-10

Where is the Disconnect?

In our series on divine connection, Canon Josh Bales speaks to us about the nature of connecting our worship to our work. "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name." The writer of Hebrews challenges us to make our worship, what comes off our lips, match our work, that which we offer to God and the world.

Sermon preached 28 August, 2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke by Canon Josh Bales.

Jeremiah 2:4-13

Psalm 81:1, 10-16

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Luke 14:1, 7-14

God's Refrigerator Art

Hebrews 11 speaks of a great cloud of witnesses who lived the life of faith and are now up there, cheering us on. You and I may buckle under the weight of thinking have to be perfect. God asks us to look at a look at a couple of the lives. It is in the lives of flawed saints like Gideon and Samson that we find the forgiving Savior, Jesus, who prays "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

Sermon preached by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando on 14 AUG 2022.

Isaiah 5:1-7

Psalm 80:1-2, 8-18

Hebrews 11:29-12:2

Luke 12:49-56

Rich Towards God and Others

"If our deepest needs as human beings are taken care of and we can see God face to face. Then we can be known by our creator as we are known. When someone gives me a dollar bill, I know what to do with it and what not to do with it right. My deepest needs have already been met. I can use this in a way that honors God in a way that is being rich toward God."

Sermon preached on 31 JUL 2022 by Canon Josh Bales.

Hosea 11:1-11

Psalm 107:1-9, 43

Colossians 3:1-11

Luke 12:13-21

Talking to Dad

Do you find prayer easy? Many of us do not. Jesus teaches us 6 important ways to approach God in Prayer. It is by our adoption by the power of the Holy Spirit and through Jesus sacrificial death that we can approach God as Father. This truth changes the nature in which we communicate in prayer.

Sermon preached on the the 24th of July by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando.

Hosea 1:2-10

Psalm 85

Colossians 2:6-15

Luke 11:1-13

We Believe in Jesus, Our All in All

Sermon preached on Sunday 17 July, 2022 by Canon Peter Tepper at the Cathedral Church of St Luke.

Many can recite the first four words of the creed, "I Believe in God," but do you know what it means to say I believe in Jesus. If you're going to worship Jesus, he's got to be a big Jesus one who is above all else and who will become our all in all.

Amos 8:1–12

Psalm 52

Colossians 1:15-28

Luke 10:38–42

Receive the Good Samaritan, Become the Good Samaritan

Not all of us have been mugged and left for dead, but we can all relate to the story of the Good Samaritan at some level. But the real thrust of Jesus’s parable is to encourage us to neighborliness, that is, to be like the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ who pays debts that he does not owe.

Sermon delivered by Dean Reggie Kidd on 10JUL2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke.

Amos 7:7-17;

Psalm 82;

Colossians 1:1-14;

Luke 10:25-37

Supernaturally Changed

Sermon preached by Canon Peter Tepper on 26JUN2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke.

In this talk, Canon Peter Tepper speaks to us about how the Holy Spirit brings about change and transformation in our lives by the power the Holy Spirit. When God produces the fruit of the Spirit in our lives he does so inexorably, inevitably, and quite visibly. It is this transformation that looks like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14

Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20

Galatians 5:1, 13-25

Luke 9:51-62

A Friend High Up, Praying for You

"For as Christ has brought us from death to life, and brought us from loneliness and emptiness, into fellowship with one another, we become God's own place of dwelling, and that happens only when beyond the teaching, beyond the acting, beyond the embodiment, there is the praying."

Sermon preached the 7th Sunday of Easter, 29 MAY 2022, by the Very Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd.

Acts 16:16-34

Psalm 97

Revelation 22:12-14,16-17,20-21

John 17:20-26

Love the Real Me

Dean Reggie Kidd speaks to us about how Christ asks us to love him, to love the real him that we might know the Father and him and impact the world in the power of his Spirit that we might bring peace and joy wherever we go.

Sermon preached 22MAY2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke by Dean Reggie Kidd on the 6th Sunday of Easter, 2022.

Acts 16:9-15

Psalm 67

Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5

John 14:23-29

One More Thing

Just when we think God is done, He surprises us with the unexpected. God's invitation is to all. He summons us to know life and life to the full. He calls us not to get something from us, but to give himself to us. God fills even the most unlikely with the Holy Spirit, a Roman Soldier and his family with the Holy Spirit. Cornelius experiences God's love which leads to an overflow of gratitude and mission.

Sermon preached by Canon Peter Tepper on 15 May 2022.

Acts 11:1-18

Psalm 148

Revelation 21:1-6

John 13:31-35

Who Is This That Appears?

It is God, the beloved who comes who is called Gazelle in the Song of Songs who comes leaping and bounding. It is our God that comes leaping the mountains and bounding the hills to rescue, redeem and love his people. Jesus is the good shepherd that calls us home. He is the one that heals us and binds us. Dorcas, in the book of Acts is such a woman. A woman who is healed and restored in or that she might heal and restore.

Sermon preached by Dean Reggie Kidd at CCSLOrlando.

Psalm 23

Acts 9:36-43

Revelation 7:9-17

John 10:22-30