There’s No Place Like Home

There’s No Place Like Home

A Sermon on Mark 6:1-6a by Meg Peery McLaughlin For the Installation of Pen Peery at First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte November 4, 2012 He left that place and came to his home town, and his disciples followed him. On the Sabbath he began to teach in the...

A Life of Service

A Sermon on  Mark 9:30-37 The Rev. Kenneth E. Kovacs September 23, 2012 – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Catonsville Presbyterian Church   It was not their finest hour.  Like last week, we find Jesus and his disciples “on the way,” touring through the...

Choosing

After a six year season in which the Peace, Unity, and Purity Administrative Commission of the Presbytery of Tropical Florida studied and prayed together, but was unable to engage the presbytery in transforming dialogue, the AC was asked to craft a “Gracious...

Rethinking Morality

Sermon – “Rethinking Morality” Preached by Dr. Daniel R. Anderson-Little Mark 7:1-23 February 12, 2012   Cole Porter’s great jazz standard “Anything Goes” begins with these words: In olden days a glimpse of stockings Was looked on as something shocking, Now,...

Boo Radley’s Porch

Boo Radley’s Porch A Sermon on Mark 1:40-45 The Rev. Dr. David A. Van Dyke The House of Hope Presbyterian Church Saint Paul, Minnesota February 12, 2012 The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Prayer:   In the quietness of these moments, O God, startle us by your presence....

Strong Medicine

Dr. Brian Blount  Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary Address to the Covenant Network GA Luncheon June 27, 2004 The set up for my talk this morning begins in Caesarea Philippi with Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Messiah. I won’t read the...

What Makes You Cry?

2001 Covenant Conference Evening Worship, November 2, 2001  Sermon  What Makes You Cry?  Mark 9:38-50; Numbers 11:24-30 J. Oscar McCloud Associate Pastor, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church New York City It was a Thursday evening in April 32 years ago. My family and I...

Knowing What’s Important

Knowing What’s Important Sermon for East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh 5 November 2000  Mark 12: 28-34; Lev. 19: 1-7, 13-21, 37  Pamela Byers Elder, Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, and Executive Director, Covenant Network of Presbyterians...