A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California Sept 18, 2022 Genesis 12:1-9, Genesis 15:1-6 Introduction Look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. That is God’s instruction to Abram in the story we’ll hear today. God is reminding him that he will be a…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California August 29, 2021 James 1:17-27 One of the Reformers famously referred to the Letter of James as an “epistle of straw’ and thought it should be removed from the canon. I don’t agree with that assessment but I’m not a fan of James’ idea…
My final sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho July 11, 2020 Matthew 3:13-17 Isaiah 42:1-9 For those of you who are liturgically minded, you are maybe wondering why we’re hearing the Baptism of Jesus story in the middle of July. It is a day we celebrate in January, where the blue fabric…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho October 16, 2016 1 Samuel 1:1-11, 19-20; 2:1-11 The Ark of the Covenant resided in Shiloh. It was here that Elkanah and his two wives, Penninah and Hannah, would come to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts. And, each year, as they…
A sermon preached at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on Aug 17, 2014 Genesis 12:1-9 2 Corinthians 5: 1-7, 16-21 I prayed long and hard about which text to read this morning. And I kept returning to the story of Abram. This text is from the early narrative of our ancestors. He’ll go on…
A Meditation from Southminster Presbyterian Church Luke 2:22-40 Our reading this morning from Luke’s gospel picks up right after our Christmas Eve story. Mary and Joseph have presumably returned from Bethlehem to Nazareth, and then when the baby was 8 days old, they named him Jesus as they had been instructed by the angel and…
Glass Overflowing 