Bonus audio track of our choir singing “From the Ashes of Dead Stars:” And the sermon audio here (don’t mind the blips from congregational discussion): I spent all week asking people about self-denial, and I got all kinds of answers. The most popular answers were mentions of food and diets. Apparently when we…
Month: February 2018
Sermons from FRC Schenectady
These are some past sermons preached in my last call. I’m posting them here to keep track of them, while eliminating the separate “Sermon” tab on my website to make room for other things. “Claiming the Reign of Christ in Chaotic Times,” a sermon from Colossians 1:11-20, preached Nov. 20, 2016 at First Reformed Church…
Resistance and Maladjustment – a sermon on Mark 1:9-15
In December of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech at Western Michigan University that is considerably less well-known than “I Have a Dream” or some of his other remarkable public addresses. In it he says, “There are certain technical words within every academic discipline that soon become stereotypes and cliches. Modern psychology…
Sparkly Jesus and the Unexpected Visitors – a sermon on Mark 9:2-9
This passage from the gospel of Mark, called the transfiguration, is a story that has been puzzling pastors and theological scholars for centuries. It’s a bizarre tale. But I’m delighted to tell you that I’ve finally found an explanation, thanks to the Super Bowl. It’s a Tide commercial! Obviously, I jest, and I do…
“All Things to All People” – a sermon on 1 Corinthians 9:16-23
When I was searching the internet for images for the bulletin cover this week, I plugged in “all things to all people.” I got the picture that appears on your bulletins today, of course, and some others that quote this passage from 1 Corinthians. But far more of the images that came up on…
