A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church April 29, 2018 Acts 17:22-31 I love this story. I love the idea of people arguing over ideas, and debating differences. I know not everyone shares my enjoyment of disagreement. I know many people prefer an absence of conflict. There was, and is, however, a tradition in Judaism…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho April 17, 2016 Acts 17:1-9 1 Thessalonians 1 Darleen G. gave me a book that I have shared with many of my clergy friends. It is a mildly irreverent paraphrase of the bible by Mark Russell called, “God is Disappointed in You”, and he condenses…
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…
Acts 17:22-31 And Paul suggests that one of the reasons we were created by this now known God was so we “would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us”. I love this. What a gift. How would we live life differently…
Glass Overflowing 