A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA May 12, 2024 Introduction to Worship Good morning. Thank you for joining us this morning for worship, both in person and online. Today is Mother’s Day. And for everyone who celebrates today, we celebrate with you. And for everyone for whom this day is…
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A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA April 14, 2024 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary Presbyterian. We are two weeks out from the celebration of Easter Day, but remain in the season of Easter for another month. And so today we continue our sermon series…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church April 7, 2024 Acts 3:1-16 Introduction to Worship: This morning we are beginning a sermon series on what it is to be Resurrection People. One on level, resurrection does not make sense to us. The people we know die, and we do not see them again this side…
An Easter sermon at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California March 31, 2024 Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary. I don’t know about you, but many of my friends are not religious. Or, I should say, they are formerly religious. And I’m professionally religious, which leads to interesting conversations.…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California March 17, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today in worship, as we wrap up our Lenten sermon series on Planting Peace, we’ll be talking about active nonviolent resistance. If you’re familiar with the work of Martin Luther King, Jr and his leadership in the Civil…
Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary Presbyterian Church. We are glad that you are here. We’re continuing our Lenten sermon series Planting Peace and Sowing Shalom. Working for peace can seem like a tall order. And so as we think about how to live authentic and peaceable lives in what…
Yesterday, I had the honor to preach at the memorial service for a woman who was a lifeline for me in college, and a mentor until the day she died. Those of us who were shaped by her, challenged by her, loved by her, and taught by her will forever walk differently in the world.…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Feb 18, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today we’ll hear a story from the Book of Ephesians about Christ being our cornerstone. When Calvary was founded, 170 years ago this summer, the cornerstone was laid in a very different world, and not even at this…
Ash Wednesday Worship at Calvary Presbyterian in San Francisco February 14, 2024 Welcome to worship this rainy, blustery evening. We are grateful you have joined us. Because life is both beautiful and difficult. There was another mass shooting today. At a parade in Kansas City as people celebrated their Super Bowl win. We grieve. It…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA January 21, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today we’ll hear a story where Jesus tells a crowd full of divided people that a house divided cannot stand. We are called to be a house united. Not a house uniform, where everyone is the same. A…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Jan 7, 2024 Introduction to Worship The four gospels tell the story of Jesus in different ways, but they all agree that Jesus was baptized by John and they agree that his baptism inaugurated the beginning of his public ministry. So, this morning, we’ll…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Dec 24, 2023 Introduction to Worship We are here tonight, at the darkest time of the year to light our candles and sing the stories of our faith. It’s one of my favorite nights of the year. The days are imperceptibly getting longer now…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Dec 17, 2023 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship. Today we are marking the fourth Sunday of Advent and we will hear the Song of Zechariah. He was a priest of the line of Abijah, which stemmed back to the time…
An Advent sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Dec 3, 2023 Introduction to Worship O Holy Night is the hymn from which we came up with our theme for Advent. It came from a French poem “Minuit, Chrétiens” by Placide Cappeau, a wine merchant and leftist from southern France. Educated by…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Nov 19, 2023 Reign of Christ Sunday Introduction to Worship Today in worship we’ll be considering the reign of God and how God’s kingdom is different from human kingdoms. We’ll look at the story of King Josiah, one of our biblical ancestors, who lived…
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