A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho November 25, 2012 Philippians 3:4b-14 Today is Christ the King Sunday. In the church calendar, it is the day we mark the end of the church year. Next week we’ll begin a new year with the First Sunday in Advent, which is the four week…
A sermon preached Nov 18, 2012 at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho 1 Samuel 1:4-20 Mark 12:41-44 and 13:1-8 Nothing says Thanksgiving like Jesus predicting wars and the destruction of a temple, does it? Now, I know that Thanksgiving is not a liturgical holiday, it is a secular holiday, but still. Before we can…
Also posted at Political Theology. How the mighty have fallen… How many of you thought that phrase was from Shakespeare or maybe Homer? It’s okay. You’re not alone. This phrase has taken on a life of its own in American culture. But before we uttered it about David Petraeus, or Lance Armstrong, or any other…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho October 28, 2012 Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 Don’t you just love Amos? He’s the theological equivalent of the old man telling the kids to get off of his lawn. He doesn’t want people to like him. He doesn’t consider his words for whether or not they…
Despite the title of this post, I promise it is not entirely political. But I’ve been thinking about my body. Because I’ve been running again, by which I mean I have been very slowly jogging for short bursts before my oxygen runs out and I collapse in a pathetic heap. And I have a love/hate…
Here is the prompt from over at Revgals today: “You probably have, like me, a study full of books. Maybe they spill into another room. They go with you in the car to appointments when you might have some dead space in your schedule. In my study, the books are double-stacked and in somewhat precarious…
This is one of my entries for the Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual for 2014. Acts 17:16-34 Paul shares the Good News of the Gospel with a crowd of Athenians in the marketplace and his rhetoric is masterful. He doesn’t insult them. He doesn’t scare them. He invites them to see something familiar in a new…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my struggle with the narrow categories of “pro-life” and “pro-choice”. You can read that post here. I received some comments from people who questioned how I could take God’s command to choose life seriously if I were in favor of legal abortions. And this weekend, I received a…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho October 14, 2012. Mark 10:17-31 Before we get into this text this morning, I want to make sure we are clear about how we fit in this passage. It is easy, I think, from the stresses of our own lives, to not feel rich. None…
Here is the prompt from RevGalBlogPals. So, let’s get on with a Random Friday Five. 1. Tell us a moment of blessing that you have experienced in the past week. This has been a busy, busy week. But I have managed to make it to all three District soccer games for Alden and Elliott’s City…
Glass Overflowing 