A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Sept 8, 2018 Gen 6:5-22, Gen 8:6-12, Gen 9: 8-17 Our Narrative Lectionary year begins today, not with the story of creation in Genesis, but with a story of destruction. This story, where the earth is buried and drowned under the waters of a divine…
Easter Sermon April 16, 2017 Luke 24:1-12 The gospel writers don’t agree about every detail as they tell the story of Jesus. There are some big differences, in fact. And that doesn’t bother me too much. Each of the gospel writers sees different things in the story of Jesus. And that’s okay. Honestly, it…
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…
