A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 9, 2022 Exodus 19:3-7, 20:1-17 Introduction to Worship: Today, we’ll be hearing the 10 Commandments. Do you know what the ten of them are? Don’t worry. It isn’t a quiz. Some of them are about our relationship with God. Worship only God and…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 2, 2022 Exodus 14:5-7, 10-14, 19-29 Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship. We’re glad you’re with us. Today we’ll be celebrating World Communion Sunday, when we acknowledge and celebrate that we are part of a global family of faith. And…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California Aug 30, 2020 Exodus 3:1-15 Matthew 16:21-28 About what are you curious? I confess to being more curious about things in the future, things that haven’t happened yet. “What would happen if we did this…..” I learned to be curious about things around me…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church on May 27, 2018 Exodus 3:1-17 Today we begin a sermon series about Moses. We will only hit some highlights (and a few lowlights). If you don’t know much about Moses, other than that he looked a lot like Charlton Heston, I hope it will inspire you to…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian in Boise, ID on October 25, 2014. Deut 34 This weekend is when we remember the Protestant Reformation. Almost 500 years ago, Martin Luther posted some complaints about the medieval church on Twitter. No, on his Facebook page. No, that’s not quite right either. He wrote them down on…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Sept 14, 2014 Exodus 14:19-31 I’m sure there are many interesting parts of this story, but I confess I had a hard time focusing on anything after this sentence: “The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them; and the pillar…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church on June 28, 2014 (This was at our Saturday Evening Sabbath Service. We’ll be doing this, instead of Sunday worship, the last week of each month.) Exodus 18:13-27 Thank you for being here tonight. I truly am grateful for your willingness to try something very different. I know…
This is one of my contributions to the Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual 2014. Exodus 1:8 to 2:10 I wonder if Pharaoh ever had second thoughts about killing the Hebrew peoples’ boy babies instead of their girl babies. Because if you read this story, the men aren’t much of a problem. They are slaves. They are…
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