A Meditation/Time of Confession from Sabbath Worship at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on January 24, 2015 selected verses from the Book of Jonah The last time I was flying home from a trip, I was struck by the pronouncement made by the flight attendant as they closed the door. I’d heard it before,…
This is part of the liturgy we are doing tonight at Sabbath Worship. In place of the usual Confession sequence, we will be reading this, responsively: Sacrament of Letting Go by Macrina Wiederkehr Slowly she celebrated the sacrament of letting go. First she surrendered her green, then the orange, yellow, and red finally she…
Our church changed our monthly worship ‘rhythm’ this summer. Once a month, we worship Saturday at 5 pm and then take Sunday as an intentional day of sabbath rest. On the Sunday when we don’t worship, people are invited to be intentional about how they spend their “day off”. It is not another day to…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian in Boise on July 26, 2014. Luke 15:11-32 A friend shared this quote with me a few weeks ago, and it really stuck with me: Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ~ Alice Walker My Sabbath activity tomorrow will…
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…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho May the 4th Be With You, 2014 Acts 2:36-47 I confess I read this passage and don’t recognize the world described. We started today at the end of a long sermon of Peter’s. This sermon will be shorter. I don’t expect crowds of people to…
A guest sermon by Lucy Waechter Webb July 11, 2010 Southminster Presbyterian Church Gen 2:1-4 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all heir multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.…
