A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho June 18, 2017 Psalm 13 I acknowledge, this psalm is a bit of a bummer. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? It is quite a contrast, in most ways, to the one we heard last week, that was full of turning toward…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho June 10, 2017 Psalm 100 Today we begin a series of sermons on the Psalms. While I’ve preached from the Psalms before, including my very first sermon I preached when you called me as pastor 9 years ago this past week, you are more likely…
Since the movie was released last Thursday, I’ve seen Wonder Woman twice. So far. “Love” isn’t enough of a word for the way I feel about that film. The reverberations it is having in my life are strong. I suspect I will be feeling it’s impact for days to come. That may sound strong for…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Pentecost June 4, 2017 Acts 2:1-4 Galatians 4:1-7 Today we celebrate the birthday of the church, as we remember the day the Spirit descended and helped a bunch of disparate Jesus followers coalesce and come together with one purpose—to proclaim the good news of God,…
After a cowardly, despicable and horrific suicide bombing in Manchester, England the other day, in which young women were targeted, our president said this: “I won’t call them monsters because they would like that term. They would think that’s a great name. I will call them from now on losers, because that’s what they are. They’re…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho May 21, 2017 Galatians 1:13-17; 2:11-21 I don’t know about you, but I grew up thinking of scripture as a straight up “reporting” of events that happened 2,000 years. An account of “just the facts”, without any editorial influence. In some ways, it is, a chronicle…
Acts 15 A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church May 13, 2017 I don’t know if you caught it in last week’s story about Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch he met on the wilderness road. But when the Ethiopian man said, “what is to stop me from being baptized?” the good Presbyterians probably all thought,…
