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Most Sunday sermons are on this page soon after they are preached. For sermons before July 2005 please call the church at 726-4681 or contact info@idlewildchurch.org.

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Audio

MP3s and podcasts are not available at this time. Please check back for updates.

Sermons and services are available on CD. Call the church office, 901-726-4681. (There is a small shipping/handling fee.)

Radio and Web

Each Sunday Idlewild's 11:00 service is broadcast live on WREC-AM 600 radio in Memphis. WREC also has live streaming audio on their Website at www.wrecradio.com/pages/listen/

"Questions from the Floor" Sermons (Summer 2004)

There have been many requests for these sermons:

• Who Goes to Heaven?
  Stephen R. Montgomery
  July 11, 2004
  
• Do Presbyterians Believe in Predestination?
  Stephen R. Montgomery
  July 18, 2004
  
• How Do We Make a Difference in a World Overwhelmed by Need?
  Margaret Burnett
  July 25, 2004
  
• Why Do Bad Things Happen?
  Stephen R. Montgomery
  August 1, 2004
  
• We Hear a Lot About Being Kind to Those Outside the Church: How Can We Be Kind to Those Inside the Church?
  Stephen R. Montgomery
  August 15, 2004
  
• How Can We Move Beyond Fundamentalism? Beyond Liberalism?
  Stephen R. Montgomery
  August 22, 2004
  
• What Should a Child Do to Be Faithful?
  Stephen R. Montgomery
  August 29, 2004

A Note about Sermons from the Pastor

As one of those technophobes who has been dragged kicking and screaming into the computer age, I have been hesitant to place sermons on our Web page. Sermons are to be heard and experienced, and not read. Sermons always have a context — that context being the shared life of a congregation, the pastoral relationships that have developed, and the overall life of the city in which the church dwells. Thus, I write sermons to be preached and heard, and not read, for it is when they are preached and heard that they (hopefully) come alive. When reading a sermon, one misses inflections, gestures, voice modulations and so much more that make a sermon a sermon.

That said, I know that I have been shaped by reading sermons, thus I offer these to you. As my good friend and former interim here at Idlewild, Roland Perdue, said, "Read these at your own peril, and imagine how much better it is to be here and hear."

--Stephen R. Montgomery

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Updated 6.30.08

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Idlewild Presbyterian Church (USA)
1750 Union Ave
Memphis TN 38104
901-726-4681