by Stephen Phelps | Dec 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text for Advent Three, December 13, 2009Luke 1: 26-38 The actual words, few and simple, came to me during a conversation with my very close friend John near the end of my seminary training. “Interpretation is...
by Stephen Phelps | Dec 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Advent 2, December 6, 2009 Luke 3: 1-6 Luke would have loved the movies. Can’t you see the storyboard for Chapter 3?: “1. Long shot of Milky Way galaxy tracking in fast on Planet Earth. 2. With voice...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
(Originally titled Eternal Return) download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Advent One, November 29, 2009Luke 21: 25-36 The decade from Hell,” is the handle the current Time Magazine gives to the otherwise nameless ten years now passing over....
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, November 15, 2009Psalm 88 Ten years ago this month, I joined a weekly conversation underway with prisoners at Attica since just after the rebellion there in 1971. About a dozen men in greens gather in a...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, November 8, 2009 Genesis 1: 1-5 and John 1: 1-5 Søren Kierkegaard told a parable about this peculiar event we’re in right here, right now—a sermon. The gist of it is that ordinarily you suppose...
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, November 1, 2009 Luke 14: 12-24 Today—November 1—they call All Saints Day. It’s the day that Halloween is “een” to, the evening of All Hallows. It’s the Christian day of...
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