A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA March 6 2022 Luke 4:1-13 Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Both texts for the first day of Lent are about wandering. Whether it is 40 years, in the case of Israel, or 40 days in the case of Jesus, both of them beg the question—what does wandering…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church on July 6, 2014. Genesis 28:10-19a Dreams are a weird business. Cultures have been interpreting dreams from ancient days. There are numerous dream accounts in scripture, other than this dream of Jacob’s. There are dreams interpreted in the ancient story of Gilgamesh. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung made…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church March 13, 2011 Gen 2:15-17, 3:1-7 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of…
Glass Overflowing 