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- Your Rejection is Your Direction | Part Two
Read Genesis 45:1-8
As we consider Joseph's life, ask yourself where you would be without the rejections that have pushed you towards the better life you have now or the life you have yet to go on to live. Most people see rejection as an ending. Can I tell you it is the beginning? Rejection and loss are the beginning. Joseph came to realize that, and so must we.
32 min - Your Rejection is Your Direction | Part One
Read Genesis 45:1-8
As we consider Joseph's life, ask yourself where you would be without the rejections that have pushed you towards the better life you have now or the life you have yet to go on to live. Most people see rejection as an ending. Can I tell you it is the beginning? Rejection and loss are the beginning. Joseph came to realize that, and so must we.
28 min - Trusting In God’s Plan Within the Midst of Our Messy Lives | The Feast of the Visitation
Read Zephaniah 3:14-18; Luke 1:39-56
The Feast of the Visitation
In our lectionary lessons, we are reminded that, whatever happens to us on our journey, God is in charge And He will and can use whatever it is you’re going through for good and to bring us joy and to help us get home.
11 min - The Free Will of the Wind | Trinity Sunday
Read John 3:1-16
The work of the Spirit in the new birth is to make us alive so that we see the glory of Christ crucified and risen. So look to him; look to the Son of Man.
30 min - SPIRIT | Pentecost Sunday
Read John 14:8-17, Acts 2:1-21, 1 Corinthians 12:4-13
SPIRIT
In the Bible's very beginning, the Spirit is involved in the birth of Creation, and in the New Testament, the Spirit is involved in the birth of the believer. The Spirit is the giver of new life, and it is this "new life" that we want to explore.
If you want to take things further, there are some great resources you can tap into, such as "Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit" by Frances Chan.
42 min - Becoming an Overcomer | Seventh Sunday of Easter
Read 1 John 5:1-11, John 17:6-19
Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year B)
Our reading from 1 John 5 shows us and helps us keep our eyes and will on the finish line.
38 min - We Are Witnesses | Third Sunday of Easter
Read Luke 24:36-49; Acts 3:12-20
Third Sunday of Easter (Year B)
Witnessing is not optional. It is not a sporadic or patchy activity of faith. It is not something you can decide to do one day and then resolve to take the next day off. It is constant. It is a way of life. It is who you are.
WE ARE WITNESSES.
24 min - Doubters Welcome | Second Sunday of Easter
Read John 20:19-31
Second Sunday of Easter (Year B)
Unfortunately, Thomas is remembered solely in a negative light; there is more to this man than doubt.
28 min - Easter Sunday — "The Resurrection: How Will You Respond?" | Including a word from Bishop Mark Engel
Read Mark 16:1-8
The resurrection of Jesus Christ requires a response. It is impossible to confront this historical reality and walk away unchanged. As we will see, people did not anticipate Jesus’ resurrection because they weren’t expecting Him to rise from the dead.
22 min - Good Friday Homily | Why We Call the Worst Friday ‘Good’.
Read John 19:1-37
It was the single most horrible day in the history of the world. No incident has ever been more tragic, and no future event will ever match it. No surprise attack, no political assassination, no financial collapse, no military invasion, no atomic detonation or nuclear warfare, no cataclysmic act of terrorism, no large-scale famine or disease — can eclipse the darkness of that day.
No suffering has ever been so unfitting, no human has ever been so unjustly treated, and no other human has ever been so worthy of praise. No one else has ever lived without sin, and no other human has ever been God himself. No horror surpasses what transpired on a hill outside Jerusalem almost two millennia ago, yet we call it “Good” Friday.
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About Faith Speaks — Reverend Neil Taylor — Sermon Podcast
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Preaching, to me, is the work of building bridges.
A bridge doesn’t erase distance—it spans it. In the same way, every sermon seeks to connect two worlds: the ancient, living story of Scripture…
and the complex, searching world we inhabit today. The task isn’t simply to explain the text, but to faithfully carry its voice across the gap—so that what God has spoken then can be clearly heard now.
That gap is real. It stretches across centuries of culture, language, and lived experience. But it is not unbridgeable. Through thoughtful, practical preaching, I aim to help others walk that span—to see how the truth of Scripture still speaks, still challenges, and still transforms.
So together, we build and cross that bridge—discovering that the wisdom of the Bible is not distant or outdated, but present, personal, and powerfully relevant for our lives today.
I currently serve as Rector of Prince of Peace Anglican Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, within the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh (ADP) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
That gap is real. It stretches across centuries of culture, language, and lived experience. But it is not unbridgeable. Through thoughtful, practical preaching, I aim to help others walk that span—to see how the truth of Scripture still speaks, still challenges, and still transforms.
So together, we build and cross that bridge—discovering that the wisdom of the Bible is not distant or outdated, but present, personal, and powerfully relevant for our lives today.
I currently serve as Rector of Prince of Peace Anglican Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, within the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh (ADP) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).