Category: Sermons

(mp3 AUDIO: first click Continue Reading) Sermon-2/19/12 Mark 9:2-9 “Moving Beyond the Mountaintop” The lectionary always ends the season of Epiphany with the Transfiguration of the Lord passage in one of the gospels.  This year we read Mark’s version.  He … Continue reading →

sermon-2/12/12 Newport Presbyterian Church “Spiritual Athletes” I Cor. 9:24-27 Reading the Apostle Paul is hard work.  He has written soaring passages that touch the heart.  “Love is patient and kind. ..”  “If God is for us, who is against us.. … Continue reading →

sermon-1/29/12 Newport Presbyterian Church Mark 1:21-28   The Gospel of Mark starts out with a bang.  The author of this gospel does not seem very interested in the virgin birth of Jesus.  In fact, there is no birth narrative at … Continue reading →

Sermon-1/1/12 Luke 2:22-40 This scripture passage in Luke two is the perfect scripture to read after celebrating Christmas. Last week we read about the angels singing in the fields and the birth of a baby. Both are magical events in … Continue reading →

Sermon-12/24/11 Luke 2:1-20 Here it is, Christmas Eve and we are back at the manger and out in the fields with the shepherds. This story in Luke is so familiar, so beloved, that it is hard to hear it with … Continue reading →

Sermon-12/11/11 John 1:6-9, 19-28 This third Sunday of Advent we get John. Note he is not called John the Baptist as in Matthew or John the baptizer as in Mark. In the fourth gospel he is just John. His main … Continue reading →

Sermon – 12/4/2011 2 Peter 3:8-15a Presbyterian minister Beth Tanner, dealing with the second coming of Christ, writes, “It seems like foolishness to anticipate its long delay some two thousand years later. In my work with college students, they express … Continue reading →

Sermon-11/20/11 Matt. 25:31-46 The liturgical year that began with kings, three kings or Magi to be exact, now ends with a king on the throne: Christ the King sitting in judgment. The whole liturgical year builds to this Sunday’s affirmation … Continue reading →

Sermon-11/13/11 Matt. 5:38-48 Jim Wallis, perhaps the most important voice of Christian conscience in the United States these days, gave a few facts in his weekly email-zine called Sojomail. Here is what he wrote on Oct. 6th of this year: … Continue reading →