by Stephen Phelps | Oct 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, October 12, 2008 Exodus 32: 1-14; Philippians 4: 1-13 At the point that the wilderness wanderers of Exodus beg Aaron to make them gods, they have been on an awesome emotional...
by Stephen Phelps | Oct 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, October 5, 2008Isaiah 5: 1-8 and Matthew 21: 33-46 When Jesus started to tell his parable—There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it— the listeners cannot have missed his...
by Stephen Phelps | Jul 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, July 20, 2008Genesis 1: 1-3 and John 1: 1-5 Our texts for today begin “in the beginning.” In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void....
by Stephen Phelps | May 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts for Worship at the Annual Meeting of the Presbytery of Western New YorkMay 27, 2008Psalm 133, Ephesians 4: 1-6, John 17: 20-23 I ‘ve been reading a lot in the field of organizational development and leadership...
by Stephen Phelps | May 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, May 4, 2008 Luke 24: 44-53 and Acts 1: 3-14 There are two Ascension stories, and Luke tells both of them. One in the last chapter of Luke, the other in the first chapter of Acts....
by Stephen Phelps | Apr 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this text listen to this sermon Texts on Sunday, April 6, 2008 Isaiah 6: 6-13; Luke 24: 13-35 Those first disciples are pretty happy about Jesus’ resurrection. The early church is pretty happy about resurrection. Maybe your...
by Stephen Phelps | Mar 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this text Text on Good Friday, March 21, 2008Luke 23: 32-38 “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr In the words you have just heard, up to that perfect benediction, “Father,...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, September 30, 2007Colossians 3: 1-11; Jeremiah 32: 1-15 Some from my church will recognize the phrase, “the sine-wave method of teaching the Older Testament.” I use this method in my classes to help...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 16, 2007 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, September 16, 2007Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18; Luke 10: 25-42 “I wish to create around myself conditions in which a man would be continually reminded of the sense and aim of his existence by an...
by Stephen Phelps | Aug 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
next in the series from the Elisha cycle download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, August 26, 20072 Kings 6: 24—7:17 These stories from the Elisha cycle overwhelm me with their energy. In spite of, or perhaps because of, their fabulous nature,...
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