The Prayer of Family

A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church on July 17, 2022 Matthew 6:9-13 Romans 8:12-17, 28-30 We decided to do a whole series on the Lord’s Prayer for a few reasons.   Partly because we get a lot of questions about why we at Calvary say the version of the Lord’s Prayer we do each…

Babel

A Pentecost sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church by Rev. Marci Auld Glass June 5, 2022 Acts 2:1-21 Gen 11:1-11   Diversity. Is it a good word or a bad word for you? Diversity is a complicated ideal. As globalization, and the movement of people across the planet expands—some moving for economic opportunities, others moving…

The Prophets: Hearing the Bad News

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…

Dissolve Like Salt

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…