The Prayer of Deliverance

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…

Well Behaved Women

This is a sermon I preached many years ago in chapel at Columbia Theological Seminary, in the days before Marci had a blog.  The story of Ruth is in the Narrative Lectionary this week, and while this is not the sermon I’m preaching Sunday, it still has something to say. Ruth 4:9-10a and 13-17 1st…