Mount Calvary Sermons

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2014 PHIL 4:1-9   This week has been full of occupational hazards for me.  We all have them, don’t we.  Postal workers have to deal with vicious dogs, salespeople have to handle angry customers, and office workers have to tackle temperamental copiers and phone systems.  And for preachers the occupational hazard is preaching on a topic and then all the following week, facing situations where your sermon comes back to haunt you.  So, last week, if you were here or if you listened online, you’ll remember it was week 1 of our annual stewardship campaign, and I talked about how everything in all creation is God’s rightful property and we don’t actually own anything – we’re just the managers of God’s stuff.   So, the power went out in my garage (sorry, that’s God’s garage that I look after).  I called out an electrician.  He was there for less than an hour, changed a part which had blown o