by Stephen Phelps | Oct 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, October 10, 2010Luke 12: 49-56 Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, but division . . . father against son, mother against daughter.” Why read such a hard saying on this day, while...
by Stephen Phelps | Oct 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, October 3, 2010 Luke 13: 22-30 In a few minutes, First Church will celebrate the reception of new members, and we will ask our brothers and sisters three questions. I want to think about the first of...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, September 12, 2010 Luke 14: 1-11 If you have studied the Old Testament with me, a hand swooping through the air like this, down and up and down, may bring to mind the whole arc of ancient Israel’s...
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, September 5, 2010 Luke 12: 57—13:9 Where does what is new come from—the act or attitude or thought not rolling like a wheel in the ruts of our past, but new? The question is bigger than it appears. It...
by Stephen Phelps | Aug 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, August 15, 2010Deuteronomy 30: 11-14 & Luke 12: 8-12 In his autobiography, Carl Jung tells of a patient whose cure came so fast that his editor footnotes the fact: “This case is distinguished . . ....
by Stephen Phelps | Aug 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, August 8, 2010Luke 11: 52–12:7 In the year 1737, in the city of Northampton, Massachusetts, the great divine Jonathan Edwards was delivering his sermon when the balcony of that very full church...
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