A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 13, 2024 1 Samuel 1:9-11, 19-20; 2:1-10 Introduction to Worship: Good morning and welcome to worship here at Calvary Presbyterian Church, both those of you in person and those of you joining us online. We are glad for this time to be together. …
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA October 6, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today we’ll hear a story in the Bible about a time our ancestors decided to worship a golden calf they made instead of worshiping God, even though God had just delivered them out of slavery and was at…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA September 8, 2024 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary for our Homecoming Sunday, as we begin our program year today with a big lunch after worship. Hope you can stay for that. Today also begins a new year in…
A sermon preached at Crown Court Church in London August 11, 2024 Exodus 16:1-18 John 6:35, 41-51 Introduction to Worship Today we continue in John’s Gospel, and Jesus is still talking about bread. I’m okay with that because I talk about bread a lot too. I had to give up gluten for a while when…
A sermon preached at the Crown Court Church of Scotland in London, England August 4, 2024 Introduction to worship I haven’t paid as close attention to the Olympics as I wish I could have, but watching the women’s gymnastics competition, I was thinking about the 2021 olympics, when Simone Biles, one of the greatest gymnasts…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California July 21, 2024 Introduction to Worship When I was in 4th grade, our school got a new principal. The previous principal had been revered and loved, as far as I could see. The new guy—not so much. He showed up and started exerting his…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA July 14, 2024 Daniel 3: Introduction to Worship Good morning. Welcome to worship. We are glad you are with us. I had a different plan for how I was going to open the service today, but then there was another shooting yesterday in our…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, California July 7, 2024 Introduction to Worship Today we are beginning a sermon series through the Book of Daniel. It tells the story of some noble-born boys from Israel who become spoils of war and are taken from Jerusalem to Babylon and trained to be…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco June 30, 2024 Introduction to Worship I just returned home from the choir tour Thursday night, and y’all should be very proud of the music your choir made on your behalf in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Michael and John put together a remarkable program.…
A sermon preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA on June 9, 2024 Introduction to Worship Good morning and welcome to worship at Calvary Presbyterian Church. We are glad you have joined us. As we continue our sermon series on the Book of Psalms, today we’ll look at a song of lament. Lament…
Glass Overflowing 