A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA May 14, 2023 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship. Today is Mother’s Day, which is not a liturgical holiday, not a church holiday, per se. And it is a complicated day. It will not be the focus of worship, but it…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA May 7, 2023 Introduction to Worship Today we begin a sermon series on the book of Romans, which is my favorite letter Paul wrote to the churches. It contains my favorite chapter in the whole of scripture. And it is a book where Paul…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA April 30, 2023 Introduction to Worship Welcome to worship this morning. We are glad you are here. One of the things we’ll be talking about today is how sometimes things get lost in translation. When Jackie Chan was first filming movies in the US…
An Easter sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA April 9, 2023 Matthew 28:1-10 Introduction to Worship: Good morning, and Easter blessings to you. Thank you for joining us for worship this day. The story of Easter is ultimately a reminder that even when we think we know how a story is…
A sermon preached at the Sunrise service on Easter morning at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA April 9, 2023 John 20:1-18 Introduction to Worship: Good morning, and Easter blessings to you. Thank you for joining us for worship this day. The story of Easter is ultimately a reminder that even when we think…
A Palm Sunday sermon from Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California. April 2, 2023 Matthew 21:1-17 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary Presbyterian Church. We are glad you are here, both in person and online. It is a good day to be together in prayer and worship, because the…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church March 19, 2023 Ezra 2:64-70 and 3:11-13 Intro to Worship: In scripture, you sometimes get to hear different perspectives of the same story. Today in worship, we’ll hear a story from the Book of Ezra about how the Hebrew people came home from exile in Babylon and rebuilt…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA January 1, 2023 Isaiah 43:16-21 2 Corinthians 5:16 and 17 How many of you are people who like to make resolutions at the New Year? A number of years ago, I got weary of not lasting past January 18 with my new me resolutions.…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA November 13, 2022 Micah 1:2-5; 6:1-8 Introduction to Worship: Today we are hearing from the Prophet Micah, who talks about what is required of us in our lives of faith. Before we look at what he says, let’s start with what Mary Oliver says…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 9, 2022 Exodus 19:3-7, 20:1-17 Introduction to Worship: Today, we’ll be hearing the 10 Commandments. Do you know what the ten of them are? Don’t worry. It isn’t a quiz. Some of them are about our relationship with God. Worship only God and…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 2, 2022 Exodus 14:5-7, 10-14, 19-29 Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship. We’re glad you’re with us. Today we’ll be celebrating World Communion Sunday, when we acknowledge and celebrate that we are part of a global family of faith. And…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California Sept 18, 2022 Genesis 12:1-9, Genesis 15:1-6 Introduction Look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. That is God’s instruction to Abram in the story we’ll hear today. God is reminding him that he will be a…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Sept 11, 2022 Genesis 6:5-22; 8:6-12; 9:8-17 Introduction to Worship Today we begin our program year, our Homecoming Sunday, with the story of Noah and the flood. To our modern ears, it seems crazy to say that the entire earth was flooded. There is…
Genesis 3:8-13 1 Samuel 8:4-22 Our Lord’s Prayer sermon series continues this morning with “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”. I spent a fair amount of time this week wondering why I hadn’t generously let either Victor or Joann preach this one. We’ll talk both about the temptation part and the…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Aug 14, 2022 Matt 6:9-15 Matt 18:15-35 Today we are continuing our sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer. Last week, Joann spoke about asking God forgiveness. Today we get the other half of that sentence—where we talk about why we forgive others. So let’s…
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