Sermons Archive

Sermons from 2007:

Nov. 25, 2007		Jesus, Remember Me
Nov. 18, 2007		When Will it Happen?
Nov. 5, 2007		Saints in Community
October 28, 2007		The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
October 21, 2007		Grace Written on Our Heart
October 14, 2007		Faith Healing
October 7, 2007		How Long?
Sept. 30, 2007		Grace is the Gate
Sept. 9, 2007		A Romance of Grace
Sept. 2, 2007		God is not a Bookkeeper
August 26, 2007		Remove the Yoke from Among You
August 19, 2007		Justice is an Action Verb
August 12, 2007		Faithful People Look Forward to Risk
August 5, 2007		It's Not About What We Possess; It's About What Possesses Us
July 29, 2007		Who is Bargaining with Who?
July 22, 2007		Hospitality is a State of Being
July 15, 2007		A Samaritan's Compassion
July 8, 2007		The Kingdom of God Has Come Near
July 1, 2007		The Simplest Thing
June 17, 2007		Hospitality of God
June 10, 2007		Compassion
June 3, 2007		God in Community
May 20, 2007		Unity in Christ
May 13, 2007		Grace Evokes Hospitality
May 6, 2007		Who are We to Hinder God?
April 29, 2007		Tell Us Plainly
April 8, 2007		So that the Things that are Supposed to Live, Can Live
April 7, 2007		We Had a Funeral Today
April 6, 2007		Shouts of Hosanna on Sunday
April 5, 2007		And So We Wash Each Other
April 1, 2007		A Liminal Time
March 25, 2007		Divine Pedicures and Intimate Invitations (Lindsay Lummun, Yale seminarian, guest preacher)
March 18, 2007	Listen	There was a Man with Two Sons...
March 11, 2007	Listen	True Repentance
March 4, 2007		The Hen and the Fox
February 25, 2007		Thin Places in the Wilderness
February 21, 2007		Rent Hearts are Louder than Trumpets (The Rev. Dearthrice DeWitt, First United Congregational Church, Poughkeepsie, guest preacher)
February 18, 2007		Epipany Never Ends
February 4, 2007		Make Us Part of the Catching and of Being Caught
January 28, 2007		Someday is not in the vocabulary of God
January 14, 2007		Nothing can separate us from the love of God
January 7, 2007		Thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water

Sermons from 2006 (in .pdf format):

December 24, 2006	God's Promise
December 17, 2006	What Should We Do?
December 10, 2006	In the Wilderness
December 3, 2006	Signs of the Time
November 26, 2006	Transforming Kingship
November 19, 2006	Transforming our Time
November 12, 2006	Transforming our Gifts
November 5, 2006	Transforming our Life
October 29, 2006	Transforming our Blindness
October 22, 2006	Transforming Leadership
October 15, 2006	A Transforming Journey
October 11, 2006	What is to Prevent Me?
October 8, 2006	None of God's Children are Rats (winner of Hines Award)
October 1, 2006	Who is Outside our Circle?
September 24, 2006	Welcome Someone Like This
September 17, 2006	Who Do You Say That Jesus Is?
September 10, 2006	Meeting the Other
September 3, 2006	The Style of our Lives
August 27, 2006	Words of Eternal Life
August 20, 2006	True Food
August 13, 2006	A Place For the Hungry
August 6, 2006	We Aren't Called to Build Tents
July 30, 2006	Another Kind of King
July 23, 2006	Sabbath Rest
July 16, 2006	The Goat Doesn't Get to Vote
July 9, 2006	Just Who Does He Think He Is?
July 2, 2006	Nothing ... Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God
June 25, 2006	Shock and Awe
June 18, 2006	The Mustard Seed
June 11, 2006	Trinity Sunday
April 23, 2006	John 20:19-29
April 2, 2006	The Ten Commandments
March 26, 2006	The Feeding of the 5,000
February 19, 2006	Mark 2, 1-12

Sermons from 2005:

January 30, 2005 The Unusual Voices of Hope

February 6, 2005 Patiently Waiting for God's Presence

February 27, 2005 The Hope of Truth-Telling

March 20, 2005 Walking on Both Sides

March 24, 2005 A Maundy Thursday Meditation

March 25, 2005 "It is Finished"

March 26, 2005 Pass it On (A glimmer of Hope Throughout History)

March 27, 2005 Love So Great

Sermons from 2004:

January 11, 2004	Baptism and the Spirit of God at work
January 25, 2004	The Meaning of Community
February 8, 2004	The (Mis)use of Worldly Power in the Name of God
February 22, 2004	Getting Close to God
April 8, 2004	God's New Covenant
April 11, 2004	The New Life of Resurrection
April 18, 2004	Christianity and Cultural Change
October 3, 2004	Household Chores of the Christian Community
October 10, 2004	We are all "foreigners" and one in Christ
October 24, 2004	Juan Diego and the message of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Sermons from 2003:

January 1, 2003	A New Year's Gift to the City of Poughkeepsie
January 5, 2003	The Magi and Matthew's Vision of Unity
January 24, 2003	Rev. Phillips' Prayer at the Martin Luther King Breakfast
February 9, 2003	The Civil Rights Movement: Reflections of Betty Olson
February 28, 2003	The Civil Rights Movement: Reflections of Loyd Lee
March 5, 2003	Ash Wednesday
March 30, 2003	Not all wars are the same

Sermons from 2002:

January 6, 2002	The Three Kings and King of the Jews
January 20, 2002	Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 26, 2002	Ida B. Wells (Deacon Mary Gregorius)
February 3, 2002	Absalom Jones
February 10, 2002	Capital Campaign
February 13, 2002	Ash Wednesday
February 17, 2002	Lent I, Galilee to Jerusalem Sunday
February 24, 2002	Lent II, Entry to Jerusalem Sunday
March 3, 2002	Lent III, Cleansing the Temple Sunday
March 10, 2002	Lent IV, Last Supper Sunday
March 24, 2002	Lent VI, Crucifixion Sunday
March 29, 2002	Good Friday (Missing the Mark)
March 31, 2002	Easter Day (Living a Resurrected Life)
April 7, 2002	Doubting Thomas (Deacon Mary Gregorius)
April 21, 2002	Living a Life "Perissos" (Abundant Life)
April 28, 2002	Early Christian "Market Share" and John's Gospel
May 12, 2002	Endowment Sunday
May 19, 2002	Pentecost Sunday
June 2, 2002	The Church's Ministry of Forgiveness
June 9, 2002	Faith Comes First (Deacon Mary Gregorius)
June 16, 2002	Reconciliation and Building Community
June 23, 2002	The Truth Will Come Out
June 30, 2002	Paul's "New Life" for North American Christians
July 7, 2002	Baptism of Serena Sophia Lewis
August 4, 2002	Amateur Christians
August 11, 2002	Theology and Johann Sebastian Bach
September 8, 2002	Where is God in all of this?
September 15, 2002	Is your slip showing?
September 29, 2002	Founders' Day, St. Paul's Church
October 13, 2002	A Different Wedding Robe?
October 20, 2002	Render unto Caesar ...
October 27, 2002	Love your neighbor ... is it that simple? (Deacon Mary Gregorius)
November 3, 2002	All Saints' Day
November 10, 2002	The Five Foolish Bridesmaids
November 17, 2002	Tending our Treasure - The Capital Campaign
November 24, 2002	Matthew's "Kingdom of Heaven"
December 1, 2002	God's call to Mary ... and to us (Deacon Mary Gregorius)
December 8, 2002	The Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe
December 15, 2002	Mary and the Gift of Faith
December 22, 2002	Finding our true "Home"
December 24, 2002	(Christmas Eve) - Glad Tidings for All of Us

Sermons from 2001:

October 7, 2001	Intensely Patriotic Times
October 21, 2001	Reflections from St. Peter's Chapel (Deacon Mary Gregorius)
October 28, 2001	Stewardship


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