by Stephen Phelps | Dec 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on the Fourth Sunday in Advent, December 21, 2008Luke 1: 5-25; 1 Samuel 1: 1-20 The Hebrew Bible opens with a story about creation. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth . . .” ...
by Stephen Phelps | Dec 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on the Second Sunday in Advent December 7, 2008Isaiah 7: 1-4, 10-16 and Matthew 1: 1-25 “A gentle woman housed God in her womb and asked as its price peace for the world, salvation for those who are lost,...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on the First Sunday of Advent, November 30, 2008 Romans 1: 1-7; Mark 1: 1-11 Today is the first Sunday of Advent. We call it a time of preparation or waiting. But waiting and preparing for what? Christmas? The...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Christ the King Sunday, November 23, 2008Ezekiel 34: 1-16; Matthew 25: 31-46 Before I read from the prophet Ezekiel, a reminder about his audience. The destruction of Jerusalem is done. The city is burned, the...
by Stephen Phelps | Oct 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, October 12, 2008 Exodus 32: 1-14; Philippians 4: 1-13 At the point that the wilderness wanderers of Exodus beg Aaron to make them gods, they have been on an awesome emotional...
by Stephen Phelps | Oct 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, October 5, 2008Isaiah 5: 1-8 and Matthew 21: 33-46 When Jesus started to tell his parable—There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it— the listeners cannot have missed his...
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