A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA November 17, 2024 Introduction to Worship When people talk about exercising to strengthen their muscles, I think most of them think about lifting weights at the gym, or going for a run—doing that routine, habitual work that builds strength, endurance. If I decided today…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA Dec 17, 2023 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship. Today we are marking the fourth Sunday of Advent and we will hear the Song of Zechariah. He was a priest of the line of Abijah, which stemmed back to the time…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA by Rev. Marci Auld Glass October 31, 2021 Romans 15:13-14 1 Chronicles 29:1-22 The Books of 1st and 2nd Chronicles were written as one book, with the intent to tell the story of God’s people from the beginning of time through the beginning of…
Job 14:7-15 Job 19:23-27 A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho. July 17, 2016 We are in the middle of the Book of Job, the parable prose poem that addresses what happens after tragedy strikes. For Job, who has lost his family, his flocks, his fields, his everything—Job’s first response is to…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho November 29, 2015 2 Kings 22:1-10, 23:1-3 As we talked about last week, God’s love song to us is long, and has many verses. And we need all of those verses. As the intro video reminded us, Israel and Judah split, the Northern kingdom…
The news has been bringing me down lately. I know there is always bad news out there. And I know to monitor my intake of it. I know to look for stories that reflect something other than the fear mongering or the dregs of human behavior in which some media channels tend to traffic. This…
Glass Overflowing 