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A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church, October 31, 2021 John 8:31-36 “Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place. […]
Delivered at the Meeting of the Synod, October 8, 2021 James 1:21-26, Matthew 25:34-40 It’s been a really interesting year, these past 12 months since I was installed as your moderator. It’s a year that I pray won’t be repeated, though I’m afraid that’s little more than wishful thinking on my part. Yet, through it
A sermon preached at King Hill United Presbyterian Church on July 11, 2021. Mark 6:14-29, Amos 7:7-17 Today’s texts are particularly challenging to me. After reading them over a couple of times I was troubled by what they were saying to me so I wrote short descriptions of each. For the text from Amos I
A message delivered as opening devotions for a special called meeting of the Synod of the Pacific, August 16, 2021. I was casting about for some reading to share with you today – someone else’s words that matched my thoughts – when I decided that it would be more to the point to share a
A Sermon Preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church, August 30, 2020 Poor Peter. Once again, he’s standing there wondering; “what did I say wrong?”He’s SO CLOSE;and in the end, he just doesn’t quite get it. Last week we heard his declaration: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Then in today’s text he
Acts 1:1-14 (NRSV) In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many