Monthly Archives: March, 2015
March 29, 2015, Palm Sunday – The Reading of the Passion.
There was no sermon. Here is a recording of the congregation reading the story of the Passion: 110806_001
March 22, 2015, Lent 5 – The God Who Gets His Hands Dirty
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110730_001 It is very easy and pleasant to be a gardener in the wintertime. You get to sit by the stove with a cup of tea and look through garden catalogs, and draw garden maps, and fill in order forms for seeds and plants. And the bonus is …
March 15, 2015, Lent 4 – Living with Fiery Snakes
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110723_001 If you were one of those man-on-the-street reporters, and you went around and asked random people, “How would you describe Christians, what makes a Christian different from other people?” you’d get a wide variety of answers. You would almost certainly find people who didn’t have a positive …
March 8, 2015, Lent 3 – Beyond Bingo
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110716_001 A church that we attended a long time ago once found itself in a dilemma. We had a wonderful young woman working with our youth group. And this young woman’s mother, who wasn’t even a member of the church, gave a gift to the church, a beautiful …
March 1, 2015, Lent 2 – Come and Die
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110709_001 There is a scene in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” that is, I think, one of the best bits of acting I have ever seen. I think about it often, though the scene is probably less than a minute long. I’m sure pretty much everyone here …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 