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...
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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