by Stephen Phelps | Dec 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
Christmas Eve 2005Text: Matthew 2: 1-10 A funny thing about Christmas–there isn’t a holiday like it for looking back through memory’s lens. The pictures on our cards and in our minds fetch up scenes from England or Germany in the nineteenth century, or even earlier....
by Stephen Phelps | Nov 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
November 20, 2005Texts: Ezekiel 34: 1-16, 25-31; Matthew 25: 31-46Rev. Stephen H. Phelps This past Thursday evening, the rulers in the House of Misrepresentatives passed a bill to cut student loans for working class families, medicaid for the poor who are sick, food...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 25, 2005 | Uncategorized
(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, September 25, 2005Genesis 41:1–42:5; Luke 9: 13-17 “There is no way you can interpret your own dreams,” a psychotherapist once told me. “They are information in coded form, tales about those feelings and...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, September 18, 2005Genesis 38: 1-30; Matthew 28: 16-20 There’s a phrase people throw about as if it were gospel: The end doesn’t justify the means. No? It had better! When people invoke that little proverb,...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 4, 2005 | Uncategorized
(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, September 4, 2005Genesis 18: 17-33; Luke 13: 1-5 In the meeting room at Attica prison twice each week, fifteen to twenty inmates sit down with four or five volunteers from CEPHAS for a conversation. When I...
by Stephen Phelps | Aug 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
(next in the series Lessons in the Beginning) Texts on Sunday, August 28, 2005Genesis 33: 1-20; Matthew 5: 43-48 I met a bright, open boy yesterday named Jacob. I told him I am a minister and that for some weeks, my church and I have been reading and learning from...
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