by Stephen Phelps | Apr 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010Luke 24: 1-35 Have you ever been inside something that’s bigger inside than it is on the outside? You have. Your family, for starters. Unless you’re a Kennedy or a Bush, no family is...
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
listen to this sermon Text on Good Friday April 2, 2010 John 13: 1-17 Will Christianity pass away? Will some other religion or philosophy take its place? You hear such questions from time to time. The so-called “new atheists” like Sam Harris and...
by Stephen Phelps | Mar 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 21, 2010Mark 6: 1-13 The connection between healing and faith, though well documented, is generally filed under “the placebo effect,” which is, that your medicine...
by Stephen Phelps | Mar 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 14, 2010Mark 14: 26-46 When I was thirty-three, trekking deep in the Adirondacks as I do almost every year, a bolt of lightning flew down on a great hemlock under which I meant...
by Stephen Phelps | Feb 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, February 28, 2010Romans 13: 1-10 Many years ago, I spent my working days in the hill towns west of Albany. One January evening, I was talking with a sheriff’s deputy posted up there. He told me that all...
by Stephen Phelps | Feb 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the First Sunday of Lent, February 21, 2010Luke 4: 1-13 Temptation, to judge from the way the word is used, is pretty simple, if pretty bad. There are pleasures and treasures and powers that ought not be sought,...
by Stephen Phelps | Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Transfiguration Sunday, February 14, 2010 Mark 9: 2-10 When you read the Old Testament prophets—Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and more—you notice that two concerns trouble them, and...
by Stephen Phelps | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, January 31, 2010 John 14: 1-7, 25-27 When you were new to New York and its subway, and you were down under headed somewhere, do you remember the tension, feeling you’re not going the right way? Going...
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...
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