A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church, Boise, Idaho Feb 19, 2012 Today is Transfiguration Sunday. Each year, before we enter the Season of Lent, we spend some time looking at the texts of Jesus’ transfiguration—when he takes a few of his disciples and goes up on the mountainside. Matthew, Mark, and Luke each tell…
A Sermon preached Feb 12, 2012 at Southminster Presbyterian Church Boise, Idaho Mark 1:40-45 2 Kings 5:1-15 Privilege is a nice thing when you have it, right? Naaman’s life with leprosy was much easier than the man who talks with Jesus, right? They were both lepers, but Naaman was a leper with privilege. And while…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, ID Jan 22, 2012 Jonah 3:1-10 Mark 1:14-20 Our lectionary readings for this year will take us through Mark’s gospel. As you may be noticing, Mark is a man of few words. Where you and I, or Luke and Matthew, would offer more details, Mark is…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Jan 15, 2012 for Baptism of the Lord Gen 1:1-4 Mark 1:4-13 The Christian New Year didn’t begin on January 1. We began our liturgical New Year on the first Sunday of Advent, right after Thanksgiving. Our year begins in preparation for Jesus’ birth and Christ’s return. After…
A sermon preached on Christ the King Sunday, Nov 20, 2011 at Southminster Presbyterian Church, Boise, Idaho. Matt 25:31-46 Ezekiel 34:11-16 This morning is Christ the King Sunday. It is a day to pause at the end of the church calendar of “ordinary time”, before we head into the season of Advent next week. And…
A sermon preached Nov 13, 2011 at Southminster Presbyterian Church, Boise, Idaho. Matthew 25:14-30 I shared this text with the people who gathered Tuesday night for Committees, and their first reaction was that this parable prompted an “Occupy Jerusalem” tendency in them. Much like the people who have been camping outside Wall Street to protest…
A sermon preached November 6, 2011 at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho. Joshua 24:1-25 In our text this morning, Joshua tells the people their story as God sees it. Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond…
A Sermon Preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church October 30, 2011 Joshua 3:1-17 Today is the day we celebrate Reformation Sunday, the day in October 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 complaints to the door of the Cathedral in Wittenberg. (As an aside, looking out at the doors to our church, the Building and Grounds…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Oct 23, 2011 Deuteronomy 34 (Please watch this short clip before you read the rest of the sermon.) Those were Martin Luther King Jr’s final words from the sermon he preached the night before he was assassinated in Memphis. I have seen the Promised Land. For him, it…
A sermon preached October 16, 2011 at Southminster Presbyterian Church, Boise, Idaho Exodus 33:12-23 Moses had a different relationship with God than just about anyone in the Scriptural record, other than Jesus. Certainly different encounters with God than I have had. Before the passage you heard this morning, God had told Moses, “your people are…
Glass Overflowing 