Peace for the Contrite Heart

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…

Open Hearted Advent

A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church December 4, 2016 Advent 2 Joel 2:12-13, 28-29 The Book of Joel is best read in one sitting. I invite you to look through it this week. It’s a lovely story of destruction, fit for people recovering from Thanksgiving holidays with family. Locusts invade and destroy the land.…