The Prayer of Deliverance

Genesis 3:8-13 1 Samuel 8:4-22 Our Lord’s Prayer sermon series continues this morning with “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”.  I spent a fair amount of time this week wondering why I hadn’t generously let either Victor or Joann preach this one.  We’ll talk both about the temptation part and the…

The Subtle Temptation

A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Boise, Idaho Matthew 4:1-17 Just last week, you heard the story of Jesus being baptized by John in the Jordan River. God’s voice spoke from heaven about how Jesus was God’s beloved son, in whom God was well pleased. And in the very next verse, with which our…

The Temptations

A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church March 13, 2011 Gen 2:15-17, 3:1-7 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;  but of the tree of…