St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC

About 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

Publisher

St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jan 2017

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

395 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Costly Love

   Costly Love There are different ways to view anything. For instance, you can read the Bible like a story, and it looks something like this: Creation-Fall-Redemption-Restoration. Another way we read the Bible is thematically, considering major themes that show our need for the gospel, and it looks like this: Who is God? What is sin? Who is Jesus? How do we receive the gospel? Both are ways of looking at the Bible, and both get at essential truth. We need both to get a fuller picture of the glory of the Gospel. In a similar manner, our text this Sunday reflects a different perspective on what God was doing in Thessalonica and how Paul made disciples who then made disciples. If last week we saw a flyover of the explosion of the church Paul planted, this week we go inside the living room of Jason and see what happened up close and personal in seeing Christ being formed in the souls of people. It can only be described as costly love. You can feel the tension, see and hear the pain Paul feels in his body from the beating he received in Philippi, and see the strong images Paul uses to describe pouring out his life for the people. Costly love indeed! Join us this Sunday as we consider gospel ministry up close and personal, which is the only way the gospel goes forth. If you are new and interested in knowing more about St. Patrick, consider joining us in the Sunday School hour for St. Patrick Essentials. Or we also have a class studying Leviticus, and, of course classes for all ages for our children.

2. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Simple Church

   Simple ChurchI love to make gravy. Especially breakfast gravy. I suppose it is what introduced me to my love of making sauces. The idea of starting with some kind of meat juices or drippings, adding other flavorings, and then thickening it and reducing it to come up with something that sets off a piece of meat or makes a biscuit and scrambled eggs something special. My love for sauces would come later, but gravy—breakfast gravy—was my introduction to a whole other world of culinary delightfulness. My mother made the best breakfast gravy I have ever tasted. It was special. When I moved off to Mississippi to go to school, plant a church, and start a family, I started thinking about making gravy myself. I had a growing brood of children, and they loved grandmother's breakfasts. So I called her on the phone and asked her how to make it—bacon drippings, scraping the fond off the bottom, flour until it browned, milk, and stir continually. I tried it a few times, and it was a disaster. I couldn't understand her instructions because I had no categories for what happened to flour when you added milk. On a trip to Memphis, I told my mother she was going to have to show me because I couldn't get what was happening. (There were no YouTube videos then, only a living tradition!) And she did. My mother took me by the hand and said, "Look!" It was a revelation—just watching her one time turned information into knowledge and later into expertise. Paul in our passage says something he never said about any other church he planted! They were examples, models, or the pattern of what the living community of God's people ought to look like, and because of that our antennas should go up. It all starts with how Paul discipled a new group of converts who believed the gospel when he preached at the synagogue. That got them started, but where they were formed was in a man named Jason's house. There, with a small group of people, Paul took them by the hand and said, "Look!" And then he left, and while he was gone, the church just took off. It was simple but profound. We will talk about that this Sunday! Remember, Sunday School for all ages is back in swing at 9:15, as well as St. Patrick 101 for those new and interested in our vision and values.

3. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Eucatastrophe - The Feel of Ministry

   Eucatastrophe- The Feel of Ministry It may seem strange to start a sermon series with such an unusual title — and yet, what if the word you're looking for to describe what a book is about isn't available to you? That happened to Tolkien when he was trying to describe what happens in a fairy story. You know the plot of the fairy story, and for that matter every great story that has ever moved you: it feels like a tragedy for most of the story, and then suddenly, out of nowhere (if the storyteller knows their craft), an unlooked-for rescue comes, and you have a happy ending. That, Tolkien says, is a eucatastrophe, or good catastrophe. There is a sudden turn, and Tolkien describes it like this: "…it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur… giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world." (J. R. R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories) He goes on to say the story of redemption is the ultimate eucatastrophe — and it's true. The disciples certainly felt this as they watched Jesus die, only later to see him alive and experience joy beyond the walls of the world. Such joy turned the world upside down. Well, this week we will see Paul experience an eucatastrophe; indeed, the Thessalonian church is born out of it. The whole book is pastoral, and one of the first and earliest letters Paul wrote. I can't wait to begin this journey deeper into the mystery of grace! Also remember, Sunday School for all ages and St. Patrick 101 both start this Sunday. If you're new to St. Patrick, I hope you'll join us for this class — and for our Newcomers Feast after worship.

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