A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian ChurchAug 30, 2009 Joshua 1 For those of you who have persevered through your Year of the Bible readings, I would like to congratulate you on finishing the Pentateuch! That is the Greek Word for the first five books of the Bible. In Hebrew, they’re referred to as the…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church August 23, 2009 Luke 18:35-43 Blindness is a popular image in scripture. The psalmist tells us: The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. And Isaiah is fond of using blindness as a metaphor:…
A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian ChurchAug 9, 2009 Numbers 11 One problem we have as 21st Century Americans reading the Hebrew Scriptures is that we are very linear people. We like things to be in order. A happens. Then B. Then C. And then we read our Bibles. Genesis, then Exodus, then Leviticus, and…
A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian ChurchJuly 26, 2009 Leviticus 16:29-34Romans 3:19-31 I selected these texts from our Year of the Bible readings because they are each, in their own way, about atonement. Atonement is an interesting word. It isn’t a translation of Greek, Hebrew, or Latin. It is a word made up by William…
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