This is the statement I recorded to air at the beginning of Calvary’s worship service for Jan 10, 2021. I didn’t change the sermon I had already written and recorded. Maybe I should have. Who knows. But I know that I’ve preached about these things before, and will preach about them again. Here’s the statement:…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA November 15, 2020 Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18 How did your parents discipline you? Was it different than how you raised your own kids, or how you saw your friends disciplining their kids? I don’t recall facing discipline a lot as a child. It’s possible I’m…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. November 1, 2020 Matthew 5:1-16 There is a scene in a Monty Python movie about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Apparently it was difficult for the characters to hear what Jesus was saying. Big crowd, no sound system. I’ll likely always think of it when…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian on November 24, 2019 2 Kings 22:1-10, [14-20]; 23:1-3 Next week we begin our Star Wars themed Advent series. Here’s a teaser: As the intro video reminded us with a quick history lesson, Israel and Judah split, the Northern kingdom fell to Assyria. King Hezekiah instituted reforms, but…
Welcome to In God We Trust Dot Com, your one stop shopping site for all resources so that you can show the world that you really trust God, like a lot, like more than those other people. Let’s get started, shall we? First, do you really trust God? It is an important question to ponder…
This morning I read Trump’s former personal attorney, and convicted felon Michael D Cohen’s testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. You can read it here. This morning I’m listening to it. I’m struck by a few comments he made, and which have come up in questioning too. Mr. Trump is an enigma.…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho November 4, 2018 2 Kings 5:1-19 I love this story. It is full of conflict and juxtaposition and surprise agents. People who have—kings and commanders—are contrasted with people who have nothing—foreign slave girls and servants. People who are in the faith—like the king of Israel—are…
Content warning–this post is about sexual assault and rape. I am fortunate. While not all of my dates in my youth were great, all of my dates were safe, consensual, and respectful. When I told boys to stop, they did. Even if a few of them spent time trying to convince me to change…
Our president has recently followed through on campaign pledges to ‘make America safe again’ (or is it great again? I can’t remember) by increasing the deportations of “bad hombres“. In reality, this just means people who are living here without legal documentation, as mothers are being separated from their American born children, and Immigration Customs…
Today I participated in the Boise Women’s March on Idaho, one of hundreds of marches around the world. Many have asked why we marched. The crowd in Boise was somewhere over 5,000 people (I’ve been to lots of marches here and this was, by far, the largest) and I suspect there were 5,000 different reasons…
