Category Archives: Sermons
April 13, 2014, Palm Sunday – A Meditation
To listen to this sermon, click here: 131014_001 I have a bunny named Nell, who has been living in our kitchen for the winter. A few days ago I was cleaning out her cage I found an ad in the newspaper for a program called “Luggage with Love.” It is run by a group called …
April 6, 2014, Lent 5 – Deacon Rick Littlejohn guest speaker.
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March 30, 2014, Lent 4 – The Song of Judgment
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130930_001 Yesterday the Youth Group went to see the new movie version of the story of “Noah”. It is definitely a modern take on the story, and Aronofsky, the director went beyond taking liberties with the story; he basically re-invented it, complete with rock monsters and epic battle …
March 23, 2014, Lent 3 – Washing Away History
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130923_001 People tend to go through life lugging the burden of human history on their backs. No matter who you are, in some way or in many ways the events of the past intrude themselves into your present. On a global scale, we can see that with warfare …
March 16, 2014, Lent 2 – Being Born
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130916_001 Three of our children have had birthdays in the last week, so Carroll and I have been doing a lot of remembering about those days all those years ago when our sons Gabe and Isaac and Colin came into the world. You know we have had ten …
March 9, 2014, Lent 1 – The One Who Knows Us
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130909_001 There are two kinds of people in the world: people who spend a lot of time and energy every day worrying about their weight, and people who don’t have to worry about it. The first group of people fight a continual battle with the temptation to eat …
March 5, 2014, Ash Wednesday – Unpacking for the Journey
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130906_001 The complete text of the sermon is not available, but here is an outline: Packing for a trip – depends on how you are traveling — car, train, plane Lent is a journey of the heart, an inner journey, a private journey the Father, who sees in …
March 2, 2014, Last Sunday of Epiphany – Mountain Top Experiences
To listen to the sermon, click here: 130902_001 Christianity is a very down-to-earth faith. We live our Christian lives in the stress and rush of the day-to-day world. We practice being disciples of Christ in our relationships with family and friends, in our work, in our illnesses and all the other troubles and complications of …
February 23, 2014, Epiphany 7 – Becoming Perfect
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130827_001 Today we finish reading the long teaching that we began two weeks ago. Jesus said he had come to fulfill the law completely. But obeying the law isn’t what you’ve been taught, he told them, just following a bunch of rules about what you can or can’t …
February 16, 2014, Epiphany 6 – Choose Life
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130819_001 Carroll and I like to watch detective shows sometimes; they’re very exciting. And I imagine we’ve all had the experience of watching a really exciting episode, and things look really desperate, and then you see the words “to be continued….” This sermon is going to be a …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 