A sermon preached for Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho April 26, 2020 John 20:19-31 We’re moving through the resurrection texts, and today we move to John’s gospel. In John’s gospel, Mary encounters Jesus in the garden, early in the morning. And she goes and tells the disciples, and Peter and John race back to…
A sermon preached at Southminster on May 5, 2019 Acts 10, Ephesians 2 We’re a few weeks after Easter right now. And while the news of the empty tomb and sightings of our risen Lord are good news, being Easter people is hard. Trusting in the truth of resurrection when the lies of death are…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho July 1, 2018 1 John 2:1-14 Last week we heard the first chapter of 1st John. Today we get most of the second chapter. And the theme of koinonia, or fellowship, that began last chapter continues in this one, even if the word does not…
As regular readers may recall, I’ve been on a birth family discovery the past two years, ever since Washington State opened their sealed birth records and I got my original birth certificate in the mail. My birth mother does not want to meet me. And she has asked me not to contact her children, my…
Presidential candidate and former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, wrote a book in 1995 that included a chapter called, “The Restoration of Shame”. He seems to believe that if we spent more time shaming people, we would have a better society. “One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more…
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