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...
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...
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