by Stephen Phelps | May 13, 2012 | sermon 2012, universalism
If you have heard a number of my sermons, you will not be surprised to hear me say that I do not worry about a person who is not a Christian. God is good–so that single piece of information–“not a Christian”– does not move me to alarm about the individual’s well-being, define it how you will. . . If it turns out that I am wrong about heaven and God and judgment, I am pretty sure my defense attorneys will be able to make a good case in the courts of the eternal that I learned my way from the example of Jesus.
by Stephen Phelps | May 6, 2012 | communion, mass incarceratiom, sermon 2012, social justice
Abide.In.Me Texts on Sunday, May 6, 2012 Acts 16: 16-40; John 15: 4-8 In more than half the books of the New Testament, someone is in prison. The word “prison” peppers the whole of Acts. Good people are being stopped, frisked, stripped, flogged, thrown...
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 22, 2012 | environment, interpretation, salvation, sermon 2012, suffering
Great question: Is Job blessed because things turned out well? Can he be happy–be satisfied, have peace, sing “It is well with my soul”–without the happy ending? Is Jesus blessed while he is on the cross, still unaware of what shall come? How critical to your own life–and even to the planet’s–your answer is!
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 8, 2012 | freedom, sermon 2012, spiritual practice, suffering
Download PDF from the Faith in the Future series Since a story is being told at some length, one may wish to read this series from the first, dated Feb 12, 2012, A Love Supreme “Train us, Lord, to fling ourselves upon the impossible, for behind the impossible is...
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 6, 2012 | Holy Week, Lent, sermon 2012, suffering
When in the main a culture is unwilling or unable to ask the question of God’s absence, that people is unwilling and unable to be just, or even to hold the question, What is just?
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