Promise in Darkness

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…

Journeying by Stages

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…