Look Up! Show Up!

An Epiphany sermon preached Jan 3, 2021 at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California. Matthew 2:1-12 Isaiah 60:1-6 Today we are celebrating Epiphany. This is an ancient Christian celebration, dating at least as far back as the 300’s. Epiphany is one of my favorite days in the year of church life. This word comes…

The Big Reveal

Here is the sermon I would have preached on Jan 8, if we hadn’t canceled worship for the day because of weather. We will still speak about Baptism and Epiphany on Saturday, Jan 14, but I’m writing a different sermon for that day. Luke 3:1-22 Two of my favorite “churchy” holidays fall in the same…

Home By Another Way

Ephesians 3:1-6 Matt. 2:1-12 A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Boise, ID January 4, 2009 Today we are celebrating Epiphany. This is an ancient Christian celebration, dating at least as far back as the 300’s. And it is the day we celebrate the arrival of the magi, or the Eastern Wise men who came…