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St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC

Sermon podcasts of St. Patrick Presbyterian Church in Collierville, TN (from 2017 forward). Check out our old podcast for sermons prior to 2017 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/st-patrick-presbyterian-church/id860820566?mt=2

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40:12

As You Wish

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/24

We all know the classic trope about a genie who grants the wish a bit too literally. Perhaps it’s exploiting an interpretive loophole. A middle-aged man asks that his wife become half his age, and he’s instantly turned into a 90-year-old. Or maybe the genie isn’t dolling out just deserts to wicked men but is victimizing them unprovoked. One commercial shows a man asking for long life who then gets turned into the Energizer Bunny. In other versions, the wisher gets exactly what he wants for, but then

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40:12

As You Wish

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/24

We all know the classic trope about a genie who grants the wish a bit too literally. Perhaps it’s exploiting an interpretive loophole. A middle-aged man asks that his wife become half his age, and he’s instantly turned into a 90-year-old. Or maybe the genie isn’t dolling out just deserts to wicked men but is victimizing them unprovoked. One commercial shows a man asking for long life who then gets turned into the Energizer Bunny. In other versions, the wisher gets exactly what he wants for, but then

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42:13

Walking Around Joy

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/17

On Wednesday afternoon, I blew in later than expected to get ready for our Community Group to arrive at our home. It was pouring down rain, buckets of rain. (My weather app said to expect flash flood warnings.) I was thinking about the three large packs of chicken thighs I was planning to grill and staring at the quart of heavy cream, chicken stock, white wine, a stack of sage leaves from my garden and shallots, all on the counter by my stove, that would make up the quasi-French sauce (a sage cream

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42:13

Walking Around Joy

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/17

On Wednesday afternoon, I blew in later than expected to get ready for our Community Group to arrive at our home. It was pouring down rain, buckets of rain. (My weather app said to expect flash flood warnings.) I was thinking about the three large packs of chicken thighs I was planning to grill and staring at the quart of heavy cream, chicken stock, white wine, a stack of sage leaves from my garden and shallots, all on the counter by my stove, that would make up the quasi-French sauce (a sage cream

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41:11

No Greater Joy

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/10

It may feel a bit jolting to shift our focus from national politics back to mundane life in the local polis, to our own homes. Yet, as Samuel Johnson famously observed, “To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor.” Even in 1750, this was not a new or novel idea. “The return home” forms the basic premise of the book of Genesis, Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, and just about every other story you can think of. “Domestic tranquility” is even at the heart of our Constitution. So, why do we

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41:11

No Greater Joy

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/10

It may feel a bit jolting to shift our focus from national politics back to mundane life in the local polis, to our own homes. Yet, as Samuel Johnson famously observed, “To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor.” Even in 1750, this was not a new or novel idea. “The return home” forms the basic premise of the book of Genesis, Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, and just about every other story you can think of. “Domestic tranquility” is even at the heart of our Constitution. So, why do we

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32:09

Joy Unspeakable

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/03

I sometimes wonder if joy is not the new apologetic for a world that no longer believes in rational argument. I read this week a story about David Barrett. He was an Anglican missionary who studied evangelism globally. He was giving a talk to a group of influential businessmen. During his talk, a gentleman raised his hand and asked, “Professor Barrett, can you tell us what’s the most effective missionary tool the church has.” Barrett replied, “Based on our research, I’d have to say the answer is

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32:09

Joy Unspeakable

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/11/03

I sometimes wonder if joy is not the new apologetic for a world that no longer believes in rational argument. I read this week a story about David Barrett. He was an Anglican missionary who studied evangelism globally. He was giving a talk to a group of influential businessmen. During his talk, a gentleman raised his hand and asked, “Professor Barrett, can you tell us what’s the most effective missionary tool the church has.” Barrett replied, “Based on our research, I’d have to say the answer is

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32:47

Joy and Sorrow

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/27

There is this incredible scene in our text in Ezra this week. It is about God’s people coming back from Exile. Home! They are finally back to their own land. The first thing they do is to begin spiritual formation, which means they reinstate the annual feasts God commanded. The first one is the feast of joy, The Feast of Booths, a week-long remembering of God’s faithfulness to them in the wilderness. The crescendo of the celebration is the laying of the foundation of the new temple. Can you imagine

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32:47

Joy and Sorrow

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/27

There is this incredible scene in our text in Ezra this week. It is about God’s people coming back from Exile. Home! They are finally back to their own land. The first thing they do is to begin spiritual formation, which means they reinstate the annual feasts God commanded. The first one is the feast of joy, The Feast of Booths, a week-long remembering of God’s faithfulness to them in the wilderness. The crescendo of the celebration is the laying of the foundation of the new temple. Can you imagine

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30:08

The Serious Business of Heaven

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/20

A couple of weeks ago, I (like many of you) packed my van and headed to the beach. At other places around the state Tennessee and in Mississippi, others were doing the same thing. Our destination was a hallowed beach in Florida where all my children and their children make an annual pilgrimage to be together for a week. It is a lot of work but, really, we do this for joy. We do nothing productive while we’re there—we build sand castles, lay out on the beach and read, swim, eat delicious food, play

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30:08

The Serious Business of Heaven

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/20

A couple of weeks ago, I (like many of you) packed my van and headed to the beach. At other places around the state Tennessee and in Mississippi, others were doing the same thing. Our destination was a hallowed beach in Florida where all my children and their children make an annual pilgrimage to be together for a week. It is a lot of work but, really, we do this for joy. We do nothing productive while we’re there—we build sand castles, lay out on the beach and read, swim, eat delicious food, play

en

25:57

And The Greatest of These Is Love

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/13

Along with everyone else during Covid, I got pretty into making sourdough. I read a lot of recipes and watched a lot of Instagram reels. I bought a cheesecloth. I fed my little starter faithfully and fretted over its temperature, color, and volume. I timed whole Saturdays around its needs until, finally, one glorious evening, I pulled out of our oven my first-ever homegrown sourdough. It was basically flat and kind of a sickly gray color. (Imagine a slightly inflated Olympic discus.) But it tasted

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25:57

And The Greatest of These Is Love

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/13

Along with everyone else during Covid, I got pretty into making sourdough. I read a lot of recipes and watched a lot of Instagram reels. I bought a cheesecloth. I fed my little starter faithfully and fretted over its temperature, color, and volume. I timed whole Saturdays around its needs until, finally, one glorious evening, I pulled out of our oven my first-ever homegrown sourdough. It was basically flat and kind of a sickly gray color. (Imagine a slightly inflated Olympic discus.) But it tasted

en

41:10

'Till We Have Faces

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/06

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12 Maybe you remember with me how that phrase in King James was, “through a glass darkly.” As a child I always imagined myself peering into a glass orb at some magical world, (maybe even Heaven), but not quite making out the shapes. That held some real mystique for me. I had no idea nor care what this could have to do with love, which was still

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41:10

'Till We Have Faces

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/10/06

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12 Maybe you remember with me how that phrase in King James was, “through a glass darkly.” As a child I always imagined myself peering into a glass orb at some magical world, (maybe even Heaven), but not quite making out the shapes. That held some real mystique for me. I had no idea nor care what this could have to do with love, which was still

en

35:02

The School of Charity

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/09/29

I love children—Heaven knows, Teri and I have a passel of them. They do say the funniest things and they are cute, but they are also hard. I remember when they were all young in the house, and it seemed like most of my time at home was spent just trying to keep them alive and safe. The endless work, much of it tedious and mundane, thankless even. Night after night, the same thing—bath, bedtime, stories, cleaning up the messes. When they are little, this is as it should be. They come out of the womb

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35:02

The School of Charity

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/09/29

I love children—Heaven knows, Teri and I have a passel of them. They do say the funniest things and they are cute, but they are also hard. I remember when they were all young in the house, and it seemed like most of my time at home was spent just trying to keep them alive and safe. The endless work, much of it tedious and mundane, thankless even. Night after night, the same thing—bath, bedtime, stories, cleaning up the messes. When they are little, this is as it should be. They come out of the womb

en

33:38

Love Is

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/09/15

There is more written about the love of God in the Bible than just about anything else, and the crazy thing is, it is hardly ever simply defined. It is, however, illustrated a lot! The same is true in our passage this week in 1 Corinthians 13. Love is not so much defined as a few attributes are credited to it, but mostly we are told what love is not. Of course, what makes Christianity unique among religions is the great claim that love itself (that is, the very essence of love) peeled back the veil

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33:38

Love Is

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC ·

2024/09/15

There is more written about the love of God in the Bible than just about anything else, and the crazy thing is, it is hardly ever simply defined. It is, however, illustrated a lot! The same is true in our passage this week in 1 Corinthians 13. Love is not so much defined as a few attributes are credited to it, but mostly we are told what love is not. Of course, what makes Christianity unique among religions is the great claim that love itself (that is, the very essence of love) peeled back the veil

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