A Christmas Eve Meditation from Southminster Presbyterian Church Boise, Idaho Luke 2:1-20 I may have told you this before, but I am a fan of irreverent Christmas Cards. Like this one, with Jesus singing “Happy Birthday to Me”. But my all time favorite one is one I don’t have a copy of. It shows Mary…
A Sermon preached at Southminster, Dec. 13, 2009 Luke 3:1-18 Zeph 3:14-20 While the gospel writers all have different ways to tell the story of Jesus, they ALL begin the story of Jesus by telling us about John the Baptist. Each year we hear about John the Baptist in the Advent readings. It makes sense—Advent…
A Sermon preached at SouthminsterNovember 22, 2009 Acts 12:1-19Psalm 18:1-6, 16-19, 46-50 Today is Christ the King Sunday. This is also the end of our liturgical year. Our new year will begin next Sunday with the first day of Advent. In some ways, it is appropriate that our church year should build toward this. The…
Acts 8:9-25A Sermon preached at SouthminsterNovember 15, 2009 Our text today takes place in the midst of both an exciting and a scary time for the new church. After the passage Ruth preached on last week from Acts 4 about testifying, the followers of Jesus do some amazing things. The authorities are not happy. These…
2 Kings 18 and 19A Sermon preached at SouthminsterNovember 1, 2009 Scripture text: Narrator: Hezekiah was 25 years old when he began to reign. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, just as his ancestor David had done. For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following…
A Sermon preached at Southminster PresbyterianOctober 18, 2009 Job 28:12-281 Kings 3:1-28 We are moving deeper into the history of Israel’s kings as we read through the Bible. Saul has risen and fallen. David rises, and falls as well. But the writers of Samuel and Kings want to make sure we’re reminded that David is…
2 Samuel 12:1-12 A Sermon preached at SouthminsterOctober 4, 2009 World Communion Sunday Our reading today is from a text that will be coming up this week in Year of the Bible. Second Samuel opens with the death of King Saul. I don’t think I’ll be giving anything away by saying that David becomes king…
1 Samuel 7:1-17 A Sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church Where is God in victory and defeat? That’s the question I see in this text and I’ve noticed again and again as we’ve read the Old Testament. Is God with us when we succeed? Is God angry with us when we fail? Clearly the writers…
A Sermon Preached at SouthminsterSeptember 20, 2009 1 Samuel 2:26-36 In the Year of the Bible, we start in on reading the narratives of First and Second Samuel this week. Which means you can give yourselves a pat on the back for surviving Joshua and Judges! I love these books and I hope you will…
Judges 3 and 4 A Sermon preached at Southminster September 13, 2009 In a not so surprising development, neither of the passages you heard read this morning from Judges ever appears in the Lectionary cycle of readings. Apparently they think these texts may not need to be preached. And, perhaps they have a point. These…
Glass Overflowing 