Oh… yes, irrevocable! The sermon text is below the sermon video; and please listen also to George Matheson’s hymn, “O Love that will not let me go”. Click here for hymn “O love, that will not let me go” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7lizMCyHI Click here for sermon video: https://zionepiscopal.com/Sermon%20Videos/twelfth-sunday-after-pentecost-8-20-2023.html Sermon preached at Zion Episcopal Church, Washington NC Sunday… Continue reading →

Oh this Transfiguration story simply abounds with significance. Suffice today, the theme is glory! The sermon text follows the sermon video. For sermon video click here: https://zionepiscopal.com/Sermon%20Videos/tenth-sunday-after-pentecost-8-6-2023-neale.html Sermon preached at Trinity Church, Newport RI Sunday August 6 2017 The Reverend Alan Neale “Glory” Oh you gotta get a glory in the work you do; A… Continue reading →

The text for this sermon is the text upon which I preached my first sermon… fifty six years ago. I mused a little in and outside pulpit yesterday that a fifty six year ministry of preaching has been shaped, inspired by a glorious text and a glorious theme… “nothing/no-one can separate us from the love… Continue reading →

What a joyous story, what a glorious vocation to struggle and to prevail in, and by, the grace of God. The sermon text follows the sermon video. Click Here for Video: https://www.zionepiscopal.com/Sermon%20Videos/seventh-sunday-after-pentecost-7-16-2023-neale.html Sermon Preached at Zion Episcopal, Washington, NC Sunday July 16th 2023 The Reverend Alan Neale “Bloom Where You Are” At the beginning of… Continue reading →

A real. deep. ongoing “heart-challenge” to preach on this text Matthew 5:48. The sermon text is below the sermon video. Click Here for Video: https://zionepiscopal.com/Sermon%20Videos/fifth-sunday-after-pentecost-7-2-2023-neale.html Sermon Preached at Zion Episcopal Church, Washington, NC Sunday July 2nd 2023 The Reverend Alan Neale So… perfection! How’s it going for you? Today’s text is from our Gospel –… Continue reading →

I have never preached on this text, though it has often intrigued me; it was very exciting for me to preach this sermon, and pulpit sermon differs interestingly from the text (despite the distracting glitches in the video). I realize more deeply that the Feast of the Ascension is a most glorious and powerfully eloquent… Continue reading →

The sermon text is below the sermon video. Click Here:  https://zionepiscopal.com/Sermon%20Videos/fifth-sunday-of-easter-5-7-2023-neale.html Sermon preached at Zion Episcopal, Washington, NC Sunday May 7th 2023 The Reverend Alan Neale “Satisfaction” John 14:8 Philip asks Jesus, “Show us the Father… and we shall be satisfied – it will be enough, that will be all we need, then we will… Continue reading →

I had rather a sleepless night before this Easter Day… and as I sat at my desk at 8:30am I prepared and wrote a new sermon. The one I wrote yesterday was… ok but I felt it lacked the sense of “This is the Lord’s message for the Lord’s people on the Lord’s Day”. This… Continue reading →

“Leaning” on Jesus… allowing Him to clean me, make me whole, to love me and accept me. Emotional stuff but so real. The sermon text follows the sermon video. Click here: https://zionepiscopal.com/Sermon%20Videos/maundy-thursday-4-6-2023-neale.html Sermon preached at Zion Episcopal, Washington NC Maundy Thursday – April 6th 2023 The Reverend Alan Neale “Leaning on Jesus” Don’t you just… Continue reading →