Sermon – May 25, 2008

Pentecost II 2008 Fr. Fred Robinson Dallas Willard, a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, wrote a book titled The Divine Conspiracy. In it he reports that “a pilot was practicing high speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the...

Sermon – April 6th, 2008

He goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. How do you know if you are hearing the voice of God? I think we have all asked that question before at one point or another. Or to put it another way, what does God want me to do…who does he...

Sermon – March 23, 2008 – Easter Sunday

Let me ask you a question. Why is there a Church of the Redeemer here on the corner of Palm and Ringling? Those who have been around here for awhile might tell me that the Church of the Redeemer didn’t start here on this corner, but that we have been in several...

Sermon – March 16, 2008 – Palm Sunday

Sermon delivered at Church of the Redeemer Palm Sunday 2008 Fr. Joseph Scalisi What does the Palm branch mean? Why do we do this stuff anyway? About 150 years before the birth of Christ, the Jewish people were occupied by a foreign power. Not by the Romans but by the...

Sermon – February 24, 2008 – Lent III

A member of our parish gave me a tremendous gift a few weeks ago. The parishioner is a doctor and she told me that after she operated on my vocal chords I would have to be silent for two weeks. She discovered that I had a polyp on my vocal chords. In fact, she called...