by Stephen Phelps | Apr 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
listen to this sermon Text on Good Friday April 2, 2010 John 13: 1-17 Will Christianity pass away? Will some other religion or philosophy take its place? You hear such questions from time to time. The so-called “new atheists” like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins try to...
by Stephen Phelps | Mar 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 21, 2010Mark 6: 1-13 The connection between healing and faith, though well documented, is generally filed under “the placebo effect,” which is, that your medicine works better...
by Stephen Phelps | Mar 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 14, 2010Mark 14: 26-46 When I was thirty-three, trekking deep in the Adirondacks as I do almost every year, a bolt of lightning flew down on a great hemlock under which I meant...
by Stephen Phelps | Feb 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, February 28, 2010Romans 13: 1-10 Many years ago, I spent my working days in the hill towns west of Albany. One January evening, I was talking with a sheriff’s deputy posted up there. He told me that all...
by Stephen Phelps | Feb 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the First Sunday of Lent, February 21, 2010Luke 4: 1-13 Temptation, to judge from the way the word is used, is pretty simple, if pretty bad. There are pleasures and treasures and powers that ought not be sought,...
by Stephen Phelps | Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Transfiguration Sunday, February 14, 2010 Mark 9: 2-10 When you read the Old Testament prophets—Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and more—you notice that two concerns trouble them, and only two: false worship and...
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