by Stephen Phelps | May 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
Texts on Sunday, May 29, 2005 — prior to Memorial Day Luke 7: 1-10; Acts 15: 6-15, 19 One of “Robert’s Rules” was very much in the news this week, though I heard no newscaster make the connection. Can a simple majority stop debate and press its...
by Stephen Phelps | May 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
Texts on Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2005Numbers 11: 24-30; Acts 2: 1-21 If there’s a word yet unheard in this Pentecost story after so many seasons–a word still waiting for your attention after the birthday-of-the-church kazoos and party whistles are...
by Stephen Phelps | May 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
(in the series Psalms in the Key of Easter) Texts for Sunday, May 8, 2005Psalm 68 1-10, 32-35; Luke 8: 19-25 We bring to a close today our Eastertide meditations on the Psalms. For the most part, the words we have attended to fed the soul as her fears and her hopes...
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
(in the series Psalms in the Key of Easter) Texts for Sunday, April 24, 2005Luke 6: 17-23 Psalm 84 In this little course on the Psalms, we have now learned two words that lie deep on the heart of wisdom, refuge and righteousness. The meaning of taking refuge in the...
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 3, 2005 | Uncategorized
April 3, 2005Reading: John 21: 1-14Rev. Stephen H. Phelps Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. When the fishing disciples see the man on the beach but do not know who he is; when Mary Magdalene sees the risen One, and supposes...
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