An Easter sermon at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California March 31, 2024 Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary. I don’t know about you, but many of my friends are not religious. Or, I should say, they are formerly religious. And I’m professionally religious, which leads to interesting conversations.…
While I was out of town last week, protesters showed up and disrupted worship at Calvary. They came to a Bible study and started yelling terrible things at participants. They yelled at people trying to enter the sanctuary for worship. We received good support from the SF Police Department, and positive media coverage, which led…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church June 18, 2023 Philemon Introduction to Worship We are continuing our Short and Sweet sermon series. Today is the Letter of Philemon. And hearing it all, from the salutation to the close, we get the reminder that Paul wrote letters—actual letters—to people he knew and loved and some…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California August 1, 2021 Ephesians 4:1-16 We don’t know much about the origins of this letter. It likely wasn’t written by Paul, even though his name is on it. The vocabulary and understanding of the church is not quite the same as the letters we…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California January 31 2021 Mark 1:21-28 There’s a word that the author of Mark’s gospel uses over and over again—immediately. English translators, in an effort to make his language easier on our ears, often leave it out. As they do in this passage. But, as…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho July 5 2020 Genesis 25:19-34 As a mother of sons, not twins, but sons, I confess that this passage gives me pause. My boys are wonderful young men, and I can’t quite imagine Elliott trying to buy Alden’s birthright for a chicken burrito, but I…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho June 7 2020 Gen 1:1–2:4 Welcome to Trinity Saturday, which is where the lectionary writers punish preachers who had so much fun last week on Pentecost Sunday by expecting us to make the Doctrine of the Trinity clear for each of you. Just kidding. I…
This is what I said this morning in committee. After hearing considerable testimony against this bill, the committee voted along party lines to send it to the House. My name is Marci Glass, and I am the pastor of Southminster Presbyterian Church on the Boise bench. I am here to urge you to vote against…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho June 24, 2018 1 John 1 Who, exactly, was Jesus? Was he a teacher who said some cool stuff, a healer who healed some folk, but was pretty much just like you and me—maybe a wiser version of the best of humanity? Was he God,…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho June 18, 2017 Psalm 13 I acknowledge, this psalm is a bit of a bummer. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? It is quite a contrast, in most ways, to the one we heard last week, that was full of turning toward…
Glass Overflowing 