St. Philip the Deacon is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) located in Plymouth, Minnesota, a western suburb of Minneapolis. Our mission is to “Reach Out. Proclaim. Inspire.” We invite you to join us as partners in the Gospel, carrying out the work God has called each of us to do in God's world. God bless you. Includes sermons from our Sunday morning 9:45 worship services.
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The Faith & Life Lectures are open and welcoming public forums where nationally known speakers reflect on how Christian faith intersects with different dimensions of everyday life. Past speakers have included William Willimon, Gregory Boyle, Hilary Lunke, Richard Stearns, Marilynne Robinson, Dr. Timothy Johnson, Kevin Kling, Rick Steves and Glennon Melton. The series is a community service of St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth, Minnesota.
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Respect Life Radio, hosted by Deacon Geoff Bennett of Catholic Charities in Denver.
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Events and happenings at Cathedral Bookstore. Cathedral Book Store is a non-profit 501(c)(3) located inside the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Nov 3rd, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - All Saints DayBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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RLR Interview with Dr. Andrew Abela - Superhabits: The Universal System for a Successful Life
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"For too many of us, life is harder than it needs to be. We have forgotten the ancient system of “super habits” — a specific set of habits for making decisions, managing our emotions and dealing with other people that fosters lives of greater ease, happiness and power," writes Dr. Andrew Abela in his new book Superhabits: The Universal System for a…
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RLR Interview with Ed Van Buskirk: If U Love Me
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"The Ten Commandments are all about relationships. The first three commandments pertain to our relationship with God...and the next seven pertain to our relationships with one another," explains Ed Van Buskirk, Founder and President of If U Love Me. Established in 2018 by Ed, If U Love Me is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the truth…
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Oct 27th, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - Reformation SundayBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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RLR Interview with Emma Waters: Pro-Natalism is Not Enough
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"Reducing babies to one among various competing goods—a child, a yacht or a house—reinforces our society’s disinclination to value them as ends," writes Emma Waters in her new article called "Pro-Natalism is Not Enough" on the First Things website. "Civilization depends on individuals recognizing that building a family and nurturing children is an …
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Oct 20th, 2024 - Pastor Makayla Dahleen - 22nd Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Makayla Dahleen
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RLR Interview with Ruth Berghorst: Contemplating the Seven Sorrows of Mary
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"Our Lady faced so many more trials and sorrows than we will ever face in our lives," Ruth Berghorst shares, drawing from her personal devotion and insights from her latest book, Contemplating the Seven Sorrows of Mary, co-authored with Dr. Joseph Hollcraft. Ruth explains how devotion to Mary’s sorrows reveals a path to overcoming temptations and t…
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Oct 13th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - 21st Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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Lorie Line is a Christian musician and recording artist.By Lorie Line
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RLR Interview with Dr. Regis Martin: March to Martyrdom: Seven Letters on Sanctity from St. Ignatius of Antioch
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"The teaching that best describes St. Ignatius of Antioch....is that the only way to find yourself is if you're prepared to lose yourself and to give everything over to God," explains Dr. Regis Martin. Drawing from his latest book, March to Martyrdom: Seven Letters on Sanctity from St. Ignatius of Antioch, Dr. Martin highlights three key themes fro…
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Oct 6th, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - 20th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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RLR Interview with Philip F. Lawler: Martyrs in Training
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"God doesn't ask us to do anything we can't do. But that doesn't mean He won't give us some challenges along the way," says Phil Lawler, editor of Catholic World News (CWN). Phil is also the author and editor of 12 books on political and religious topics, with his essays, book reviews, and editorial columns featured in over 100 newspapers across th…
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Sep 29th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - 19th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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RLR Interview with Dr. Anne Hendershott: Keeping Catholicism Weird in Crisis Magazine
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"They act like we're the evil ones, the subversive ones," says Anne Hendershott, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. "They call us the bad people, the evil people when they are the ones promoting evil." Dr. Hendershott is the author of The Politics of Envy…
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Sep 22nd, 2024 - Pastor Makayla Dahleen - 18th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Makayla Dahleen
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RLR Interview with Vicki Owens: Emmaus Catholic Hospice
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"We are unapologetically Catholic and we bring our faith with us to every interaction with patients, their families and neighbors," said Vicki Owens, MS, BSN, RN is a nurse and has provided exceptional health care in the Denver area for over 42 years. Vicki is currently the Chief Executive and Nursing Officer for Emmaus Catholic Hospice in Denver, …
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Sep 15th, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 17th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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RLR Interview with Jim Valois: The Inspiring Story of Charlene Marie Richard
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Jim Valois holds a B.A. in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. His articles and book reviews have been featured in The Wanderer Newspaper, Soul Magazine (World Apostolate of Fatima, USA), and Catholic Life Magazine. He is the author of Our Lady's Prophecies and reverted to the Catholic faith from Evangelicalism while studying at Fr…
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Sep 8th, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 16th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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RLR Interview with Ed Van Buskirk: If U Love Me, a Catholic apostolate dedicated to teaching the wisdom of the Ten Commandments
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"Early primers for learning how to read included the 10 Commandments... but in 1980, someone had a problem with it and raised it to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the 10 Commandments should not be part of the public space. Now there's something really critically missing now," said Ed Van Buskirk, the Founder and President of If U Love Me, a Ca…
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Sep 1st, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - 15th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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RLR Interview with David Deavel - Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West
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"If you don't know what you're talking about, you won't be able to convince anyone to take you seriously, no matter how pious you seem or how good your works are. If people can see that you lack understanding, they won't listen," asserts David Paul Deavel, an Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas-Houston. Prof. Deavel is a…
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Aug 25th, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 14th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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RLR Interview with Patrick O'Hearn: The Holy Eucharist is Not Loved
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“It's like the more we worship ourselves, and we certainly see this on social media, the less we worship God,” says Patrick O'Hearn, a devout Catholic, husband and father. "Most of the time I'm just telling Jesus what I think, even complaining to him. How often do I say to the Lord "What do you want from me? What do you need from me?" In his new ne…
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Aug 18th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - 13th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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Aug 12th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - 12th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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RLR Interview with Leila Miller: It’s Good to Preach to the Choir
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“Then finally I started to realize that the Catholics that I interact with are dying to know more about the faith. We have so many Catholics in America that if we simply get them on fire for the truth, we’d win the whole rest of the world because we really have a gold mine just with the people who are Catholic in in in sitting in the pews,” said Le…
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RLR Interview with Suellen Brewster: Does People Pleasing Lead to Holiness?
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"The Lord put it on my heart to write this article after He showed it to me and revealed it to my heart that this was a fault that I have and that it's something that's keeping me from being closer to Him and doing His will in my life," said Suellen Brewster, author of the new article "Does People Pleasing Lead to Holiness at catholicexchange.com. …
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Aug 4th, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - 11th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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RLR interview with Doug Mainwaring: LifeSiteNews.com
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"I think if more and more people could argue these issues from a child's perspective, we might be able to change some hearts," said Doug Mainwaring, author of a new article at LifeSiteNews.com about Scholastic's new "pride" guide calling on children as young as kindergarten to become involved in the LGBTQA+ effort. "Timeless truths are being discar…
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Jul 28th, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 10th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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RLR interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Flee from Heresy
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"Society is lost and confused about God, morality, and eternity," said Bishop Schneider in his new book Flee from Heresy. "Catholics face persecution, from outside and inside the Church, for living their Faith. In his newest book, Bishop Athanasius Schneider — raised among persecuted Catholics in the Soviet Union — offers a systematic treatment of …
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Jul 21st, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - 9th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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Patti Maguire Armstrong: Nine Points of Advice to Fight the Devil
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"If you're worried about everyone liking you so you don't say anything, then it's yourself you are worried about and caring about. It takes courage to speak up," says Patti (Maguire) Armstrong in this week's podcast. "Leave it to God and pray to the Holy Spirit. I don't know where to begin. I don't know who I'm supposed to sit next to but God does.…
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Jul 14th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - 8th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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"There is no political, cultural or economic solution to the crisis we're facing because the crisis is not political, cultural or economic because it's spiritual. We're losing a spiritual battle. We're losing a war for the soul of the West. Everything else flows from that," says Michael Warren Davis, author of the upcoming book After Christendom. "…
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Jul 7th, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 7th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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Jul 1st, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - 6th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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Robert Trussel: The Logic that God Exists, a handbook on belief in God through simple reason to bring you peace
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"As you get older, if you believe in a God who has promised us a life everlasting, it changes everything. It changes your anxiety level," said Robert Trussel, author of the new book The Logic that God Exists, a handbook on belief in God through simple reason to bring you peace. "If you believe that you're on a path toward eternal bliss and everlast…
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Bill Donohue - Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of our Moral Crisis
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"The Catholic Church talks about the complementarity of men and women, the extent to which men and women compliment each other. Neither one is better than the other but they're different," says Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. "But we live…
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Jun 23rd, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 5th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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"Every child is a gift from God, no matter how they're here," said Sarah Stula, an attorney in Kansas City. "The point is where do we go from here to protect unborn life?" Stula recently authored an article in First Things called "Evangelical America and IVF" in response to the February decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that ruled that human em…
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Jun 16th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - 4th Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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Karen Hall - The Sound of Silence: The Life and Cancelling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest
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"When you ask people who knew him to describe him, the first word out of their mouth is 'brilliant.' We throw that word around a lot but he was literally brilliant. The thing that made him so incredible was that scholars could talk to him about ancient languages but someone like me could talk to him about bass fishing and Nascar," said Karen Hall a…
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Jun 9th, 2024 - Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson - 3rd Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Valerie Strand Patterson
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Kristen Van Uden Theriault - The Mother Cabrini Companion, A Spiritual Journey with a Courageous Woman of God
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"Mother Cabrini was incredibly politically savvy, more so than you would typically expect from a nun," said Kristen Van Uden Theriault, the author of The Mother Cabrini Companion, A Spiritual Journey with a Courageous Woman of God. "Her life of service is a testament that she wasn't doing this for herself, but for the glory of God." Theriault has d…
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Jun 2nd, 2024 - Pastor Tim Westermeyer - 2nd Sunday after PentecostBy Pastor Tim Westermeyer
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John Michael Talbot - Late Have I Loved You
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One night, I was out on the road with a band and I had an encounter with Jesus and it changed me," said John Michael Talbot, GRAMMY / DOVE Award winning Christian Music pioneer who has just released his first autobiography titled Late Have I Loved You. "I started reading the early Church Fathers and I saw the primitive expressions of what we now ca…
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May 26th, 2024 - Pastor Mark Schmid - Holy TrinityBy Pastor Mark Schmid
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Dale Ahlquist - Localism: Coming Home to the Catholic Social Teaching
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"G.K. Chesterton wrote about everything. He defended God against a godless society, defended Christianity specifically against other religions and then ended up defending the Catholic faith against, well, everything else," said Dale Ahlquist, author of six books, editor of 16 more, public speaker, Evangelical convert to Catholicism and Catholic apo…
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