A sermon preached at Southminster June 27, 2010 Luke 8:26-39 Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a…
A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian May 16, 2010 Acts 16:16-40 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These…
A sermon preached at Southminster May 9, 2010 Revelation 21:1-6 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as…
I didn’t preach today, but I do invite you to listen to what the youth had to say about their 30 Hour Famine experience. Audio can be found here at http://www.spcboise.org. But I did teach the Adult Sunday School class and we are working on the Book of Revelation. Today we talked about the 7…
Isaiah 65:17-25 For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight. I will rejoice…
Luke 15:1-32 Southminster Presbyterian Church March 14, 2010 We all know this story. And we keep telling it again and again because it is so true. We know prodigal sons and daughters. We are prodigal sons and daughters. Don’t let our familiarity with this text keep us from hearing it as God’s new and living…
Psalm 27 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not…
A Sermon preached at Southminster January 31, 2010 Mark 12:1-27 Much like last week’s text, our passage from Mark’s gospel has some similarities to other gospel texts, but is, in my hearing, a little harsher than the versions told in Luke 20 and Matthew 21. I had a hard time trying to figure out why…
Mark 8:1-26 A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church January 24, 2010 In addition to preaching the texts as they appear in our Year of the Bible reading schedule, I’m trying to preach texts that don’t ever appear in the lectionary. Some of the texts we’ve heard have been, quite frankly, weird, and it is…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church January 10, 2010 Proverbs 1:1-16, 20-23 “The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight, for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity; to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the…
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