A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA November 3, 2024 Introduction to Worship: How is it with your soul? As you may have heard, there’s an election this week. No big deal, right? I have a low pitched hum in my head that pops up when I’m stressed, as if my…
Introduction to Worship As you may have already read in the bulletin, today is Reformation Sunday. Our prayer of confession, and other pieces in the service today date from the early years of the Reformation—back in the mid 16th century. Some of our music today was written by early Reformers as well. On this last Sunday…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 13, 2024 1 Samuel 1:9-11, 19-20; 2:1-10 Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship here at Calvary Presbyterian Church, both those of you in person and those of you joining us online. We are glad for this time to be together. …
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 6, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today we’ll hear a story in the Bible about a time our ancestors decided to worship a golden calf they made instead of worshiping God, even though God had just delivered them out of slavery and was at…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA September 8, 2024 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary for our Homecoming Sunday, as we begin our program year today with a big lunch after worship. Hope you can stay for that. Today also begins a new year in…
A sermon preached at Crown Court Church in London August 11, 2024 Exodus 16:1-18 John 6:35, 41-51 Introduction to Worship Today we continue in John’s Gospel, and Jesus is still talking about bread. I’m okay with that because I talk about bread a lot too. I had to give up gluten for a while when…
A sermon preached at the Crown Court Church of Scotland in London, England August 4, 2024 Introduction to worship I haven’t paid as close attention to the Olympics as I wish I could have, but watching the women’s gymnastics competition, I was thinking about the 2021 olympics, when Simone Biles, one of the greatest gymnasts…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California July 21, 2024 Introduction to Worship When I was in 4th grade, our school got a new principal. The previous principal had been revered and loved, as far as I could see. The new guy—not so much. He showed up and started exerting his…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA July 14, 2024 Daniel 3: Introduction to Worship Good morning. Welcome to worship. We are glad you are with us. I had a different plan for how I was going to open the service today, but then there was another shooting yesterday in our…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California July 7, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today we are beginning a sermon series through the Book of Daniel. It tells the story of some noble-born boys from Israel who become spoils of war and are taken from Jerusalem to Babylon and trained to be…
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