Being Blessed / Being Blessing

(in the series Psalms in the Key of Easter) Texts for Sunday, April 24, 2005Luke 6: 17-23 Psalm 84 In this little course on the Psalms, we have now learned two words that lie deep on the heart of wisdom, refuge and righteousness. The meaning of taking refuge in the...

How You Know It Is the Lord

April 3, 2005Reading:   John 21: 1-14Rev. Stephen H. Phelps Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. When the fishing disciples see the man on the beach but do not know who he is; when Mary Magdalene sees the risen One, and supposes...

Whom Do You Seek?

Texts for Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005Matthew 16: 21-25 & John 20: 1-18 Whom do you seek? Take care not to have an answer at the ready.  Your life depends on it. Throughout this past Lent, we have listened in half a dozen ways to how the life of a Christian is...

Becoming Who You Are: To Die For

Palm SundayMarch 20, 2005Readings: Isaiah 50: 4-9; Luke 19: 28-44Rev. Stephen H. Phelps Download a PDF of this text As this worship service closes today, we will be singing “Ride on! Ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp, ride on to die . . .” I have no desire to reset...

The Big Game

Texts on The Transfiguration of the Lord, February 6, 2005Mark 9: 2-8; 2 Corinthians 3: 12-18 Download a PDF of this text When Peter senses the awesome power of his mountaintop experience, he wants to build a church up there. How like all religion through the ages: a...

When You Pass Through the Waters

Texts on Sunday, January 9, 2005Isaiah 43: 1-11; Matthew 3: 1-2, 13-17 Download a PDF of this text “When through the deep waters I call thee to goThe rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;For I will be near thee, thy troubles to bless,And sanctify to thee they deepest...