Stained

A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California August 29, 2021 James 1:17-27 One of the Reformers famously referred to the Letter of James as an “epistle of straw’ and thought it should be removed from the canon. I don’t agree with that assessment but I’m not a fan of James’ idea…

What Are You Doing With Those Hands???

A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on September 2, 2012. James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-23 We do so much with our hands. We write down grocery lists and love letters. We dig in the garden and we make apple pies. We caress our loved ones and we can play a piano.…