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Sermon archive for category: Rev. Sarah Phelps

Sermons by Rev. Sarah Phelps

Persistence in Prayer

Persistence in Prayer

July 24, 2016 Rev. Sarah Phelps

Luke 11:1-13
The last few years that I was living in California, I belonged to a group of ministers who met twice a month to do Bible study as we prepared for upcoming sermons. When this passage from Luke about prayer came up in the lectionary, one of my colleagues who serves as a hospice chaplain told us about a woman he had worked with a few months ago. He said that as they talked about her faith and prayer life, she had told him that she didn’t feel like God was listening to her prayers.

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A New Creation Is Everything

A New Creation Is Everything

July 3, 2016 Rev. Sarah Phelps

Galatians 6:7-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Spend any length of time in waiting rooms at the doctor’s office or the hairdresser and pick up the piles of magazines around you. You can easily come away with “5 new ways to find your passion in life and unlock your life’s true purpose.” Self-actualization is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country. But when I read today’s lesson from Galatians, I’m reminded that for Paul there’s only one thing that gives life real purpose, and it’s pretty much the opposite of self-actualization.

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Judgment and Grace

Judgment and Grace

June 12, 2016 Rev. Sarah Phelps

Luke 7:36-8:3; 1 Kings 21:1-10, 15-21a
Over the course of 18 years in ordained ministry, it’s remarkable how many times in the midst of adult education classes I’ve heard people say that they much prefer the New Testament to the Old Testament, because the Old Testament God is a God of punishment and vengeance, they say, where the New Testament God is a God of forgiveness and love…

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Good Friday (2016)

Good Friday (2016)

March 25, 2016 Rev. Sarah Phelps

John 18:1-19:42
One of the best-known hymns of the American South is a hymn for Good Friday, and it begins with both a declaration and a question:

What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul,
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul.

This and most of our Good Friday hymns call the crucifixion of Christ both a dreadful curse and an act of unfathomable generosity and love…

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Not To Be Served But To Serve

Not To Be Served But To Serve

October 18, 2015 Rev. Sarah Phelps

Mark 10:35-45
In 2007 the Washington Post ran a story about a man playing the violin at a Washington DC Metro stop during the morning rush hour. A reporter with a hidden video camera taped the reactions of commuters passing by…

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Grief of the Absence of God

Grief of the Absence of God

August 2, 2015 Rev. Sarah Phelps

Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:24-35

About seventeen years ago, during my very first year of ordained ministry at a little church in Mountain View California, a man knocked on the door of the church office, late one Friday afternoon…

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David and Goliath

David and Goliath

June 21, 2015 Rev. Sarah Phelps

1 Samuel 17:1a, 4-7, 32-49
The David and Goliath story is one of those biblical references that’s crossed over into secular culture in a big way. An unranked sports team takes on a national championship winner…

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