by Stephen Phelps | Jan 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, January 24, 2010Psalm 121; 2 Corinthians 4: 7-18 Look at the Psalm we opened this celebration with. God will not let your foot be moved? The sun shall not strike you by day? The Lord will keep you from...
by Stephen Phelps | Jan 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, January 10, 2010Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 I hope that you might hear what I hear when Isaiah is read. When the poet opens his mouth, I wish you to know that his audience is a band of exiles in...
by Stephen Phelps | Jan 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, January 3, 2010Matthew 2: 1-12 It’s the first Sunday of a new year. Ah! The clean, fresh air! We seem more willing to trust this date—oh-one/oh-one!—to bring new energy to life than Christmas or any...
by Stephen Phelps | Dec 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on the First Sunday after Christmas Matthew 2: 13-23 Some years ago, Garrison Keillor’s “News from Lake Wobegon” told of a very old widow from Chicago who undertook to place a proper stone...
by Stephen Phelps | Dec 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Christmas Eve 2009 John 1: 1-14 How many and different are the reasons that we have come here tonight. Part for the perfect topping on the Christmas cake. Part to float down the river of tradition in...
by Stephen Phelps | Dec 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Advent Four, Sunday, December 20, 2009 Luke 1: 39-56 Philippians 2: 5-8 The Magnificat is not a mother’s psalm especially, nor even a woman’s. It sounds like many others. Psalm 107 and 98 and 147 use some of...
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