Whom Do You Seek?

by | Mar 27, 2005 | Uncategorized

Texts for Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005Matthew 16: 21-25 & John 20: 1-18 Whom do you seek? Take care not to have an answer at the ready.  Your life depends on it. Throughout this past Lent, we have listened in half a dozen ways to how the life of a Christian...

Becoming Who You Are: To Die For

by | Mar 20, 2005 | Uncategorized

Palm SundayMarch 20, 2005Readings: Isaiah 50: 4-9; Luke 19: 28-44Rev. Stephen H. Phelps Download a PDF of this text As this worship service closes today, we will be singing “Ride on! Ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp, ride on to die . . .” I have no desire...

The Big Game

by | Feb 6, 2005 | Uncategorized

Texts on The Transfiguration of the Lord, February 6, 2005Mark 9: 2-8; 2 Corinthians 3: 12-18 Download a PDF of this text When Peter senses the awesome power of his mountaintop experience, he wants to build a church up there. How like all religion through the ages: a...

When You Pass Through the Waters

by | Jan 9, 2005 | Uncategorized

Texts on Sunday, January 9, 2005Isaiah 43: 1-11; Matthew 3: 1-2, 13-17 Download a PDF of this text “When through the deep waters I call thee to goThe rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;For I will be near thee, thy troubles to bless,And sanctify to thee they...

Parables of Growth: The Prodigal

by | Nov 14, 2004 | Uncategorized

Download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, November 14, 2004Malachi 3: 7-12 ; Luke 15: 11-31 Remember the joke about the Joke Teller’s Club? They got tired of the time it took to tell the old jokes, so they assigned each a number. A member would stand to tell a...