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Westminster Presbyterian Church, Alexandria VA — 586 episodes
Let's Take a Beat
The View from Mt Nebo
Interpreting an Incident of Violence
A Dignified Death
The End of an Era
An Exodus to a New Creation
A New Law
A New Wilderness
A New Moses
250
Arguing with God
Slow of Speech
Liberator and Lawgiver
A Tale of Three Gazes
Being the Village
Inside the Camp
Miles to Go
Honor Your Father and Your Mother
Is Christ the Only Way?
The Bible for Confirmands (and Others)
All Things in Common?
Unseen and Unheard
Alive to God
Reflections
Once For All
Lift Your Voice
A Horn of Oil
Enter My Rest
Blessed to Be a Blessing
Privacy
It Is Good For Us to Be Here
Salt of the Earth
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Light Has Already Shined
Gifts and Graces
Join the Triumph
Inheritance
What Happens Next
Baby in Distress
Reflection
Homily
The Weight and Hope on Joseph
Singing Mary's Song
When Hope Trembles
The End of the Matter
Remember Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth
Harmony Way
For Good
Sleep, Dearie, Sleep
What I Got
The Value of a Friend
A Measure of Finding
Joy in Enjoyment
Pessimistic or Wise?
Crown of Glory
Glad
Oxygen Masks
What Is the Life to Come?
Why the Church?
What Is Humanity?
What Is Salvation?
Queen Vashti
Reuben
Laban and Leah
Michal
Gamaliel
Who Is the Holy Spirit?
Who Is Jesus Christ?
Who Is God?
With Reverence
How Do We Know God?
Make Your Bed
From God or Not?
Obligation
Little Cat Feet
Reflections
Stones
Restoration
Not One Lost
No
Wait
The Grand Inquisitor
A Mountain, a Vision, and a Book
Should Faith Be Rational?
You Who Laugh
Youth Sunday: Coming Home
I Corinthians 13
What Unites Us
The Common Good
Professor Harold Hill Appears in the Bible
Mangers and Magi
Radiant Baby
Christmas Eve Homily
Jesus and Me
From Bethlehem
Zephaniah's Lamp
Pledged
Not of This Time
Not From This World
What We Treasure
Seek and Pray: An Election Sermon
Shhoulding Ourselves
Greatness
Possessions
King of the Hill
Competition
Can We Be Followers of Christ in Our Complex World?
Bearing the Cross
One-Hit Wonders
Far More
Within
The Leader's Wisdom
Bread of Life
Prayground
Out on the Water
The Hopefulness of Crowds
Snared
Except
God is Love
Armor in the Armoire
Seed Growing Secretly
Binding the Strong Man
Share
Truth
Bonus Moms
Chosen
Abide
The Good Shepherd
Come and See
Cooperation
The First Witness
A Young Donkey
A Green Day
Lifted Up
A Lenten Lament
Taking Jesus Aside
Greater Than
A Place at the Table
Healing
Prevailing
Calling
First Words
The Cosmic Setting
Before the Soup Gets Cold
Christmas Eve Homily
The Worst Pageant Ever
No End
Simply a Witness
Minster Ways
Hope-Colored Glasses
May the People Blossom
A Code of Honor
Flood Stage
Walking About Westminster
Whose Coin Is It Anyway?
Remembering Leah
A People and a Place
A Communion Homily
Remembering Rachel
The Power to Wait It Out
Binding and Loosing
Shouting Down Satan
Jacob's Dream
Rebekah Why I?
Rebekah I Am
Honorably Named
Genesis 22, Again
Lucid Realism
Laughing with Sarah
Irreconcilable Faith
Be Bold
The Faith We Create
Beginning with Absence
Giving Up Power
The Quiet Breath
How You Can Fall in Love with the Bible
Wo Helped Me Fall in Love with the Bible
The Week of Gracious Living
Tell the Story
How I Fell in Love with the Bible
Love Beyond Sight
Delight
My God, Why?
Jesus Wept
The Parents of the Man Born Blind
The Samaritan Woman
Nicodemus
Tempted by the Future
The Right Headline
Ash Wednesday Meditation
Tempted by the Past
The Love Gospel
City on a Hill
Blessed Are You When
Would You Rather
Come and See
The Upside of Anger
Home By Another Way
All Aglow
Christmas Eve Homily - 8 PM
Christmas Eve Reflections
Christmas Eve Homily - 11 AM
Royalty and Manger Dust
Advent Burro
The Simple Act of Getting Dressed
Youth Sunday: Lessons from Exile
The Haves and Have Naughts
What the Perishable Remember
WPC and Commitment
WPC and the Future
The More I Wonder
WPC and the Present
The Journey Home
Anyone of Your Kin
With All Your Heart
Welcome Home
Searched and Known
How the Turn Tables
Between Fight & Flight
The Song of the Vineyard
Come, Let Us Reason Together
Old Barns
Be Amenable
A Famine of Hearing
Land Weighted Down
Permission to Compromise
Elijah's Mantle
A Still, Small Voice
A Little Lower Than the Angels
The Source of Courage
Make Our Home
Who Are We To Hinder God?
Tabitha
From the Heart
A Sermon for Bible Sunday
Newness of Life
Meditation
Loved Them To The End
Motifs of Crucifixion: Substitution
Motifs of Crucifixion: Descent Into Hell
Youth Sunday
Motifs of Crucifixion: Christus Victor
Remain Breakable
The Grand Inquisitor
Meditation
Motifs of Crucifixion: The Great Assize
Both/And
Motifs of Crucifixion
Anyway, Whose Line Is It?
Motifs of Crucifixion: Blood Sacrifice
Motifs of Crucifixion: Exodus
Sleight of Hand
Grace and Truth
"In Favor with God and Man"
Homily
What Child Is This?
Don't Call Me Surely
Yeats and Malachi
A Thrill of Hope
Daniel's Vision
The Cross and the Rectification of All Things
Heroic Struggle
The Cross and the Gravity of Sin
A Stewardship Benediction
Contending with the Almighty
A Horse With No Mane
The Godlessness of the Cross
The Primacy of the Cross
Wisdom Manifest
When Covid Met Delta
Privilege and Responsibility
Keep Your Eyes on the Field
Filled with the Holy Spirit
Characters with Character: Joseph of Arimathea
Characters with Character: Elizabeth
Characters with Character: Uriah the Hittite
Characters with Character: Abigail
Characters with Character: Lois
Characters with Character: Lydia
Characters with Character: Daughters of Zelophehad
Characters with Character: Miriam
Going Across to the Other Side
Help from the Sanctuary
The Beginning of the Beginning
Life with Honor
The Testimony of God Is Greater
Faith Conquers the World
We Love Because God First Loved Us
God Is Greater Than Our Hearts
An Ode to the Darkness
After Covid
An Easter Prayer
The Paradox of Palm Sunday
OPA!
Wisdom from "Equus"
After Times
The Simple Concept of Taking Up the Cross
Leaving the Ark
Through Thick and Thin
"Many" Is Not "All"
The Most Important Power Jesus Has
At Hand: What the Coming of Christ Means and Doesn't Mean
Eli and Ancestry
In the Spirit
Now Made Known
Check the Boxes
To Their Own Towns
The Biography of the Virgin Birth
All Decked Up
Keeping Watch
The Least of These
The Parable of the Talents
A Post-Election Sermon
Stewardship in a Time of Coronavirus
Status Quo
Think on These Things
Two or Three
The Parable of the Sower
How Do You End a Parable?
God Intended It for Good
Judah Drawing Near
Blocked from Behind
In the Beginning...
Unity Redux
Joseph: The Pit and the Rope
Jacob's Holy Limp
Rachel and Leah
Rebekah
Isaac's Comfort
Nobody's Perfect
He himself carried the fire and the knife…
Race, Westminster, and "Lord of the Conscience"
Unfinished Ceilings
Land, Descendants, and Blessing
Beginnings
The Parable of the Innkeeper
Touches on the Fringe
The Finest of Materials
Imago Dei
1 Peter and the Grapes of Wrath
All of Us Are Witnesses
Easters
What You Signed Up For
The Will of Grace
A Run-On Sentence
The Ant and the Sluggard
Face to the Wall
Count Our Days
If You Are
Light to All the House
The Beatitudes
Leaps and Bounds
Change My Name
Let It Be So Now
Eliot and the Magi
Joseph and Three Dreams
Sweet the Timber
Privily
Leaps and Bounds
The Hours
Four Texts and a Promise
Why Give?
Be Humble
Why Organized Religion?
Why Ask Why?
Why Mission?
Why Learn?
Why Worship?
When We Disagree
The Sons of Sceva Scurry
Your Time Has Come
Innumerable Grains of Sand
The Relentless Return
Freedom Bound
When Compromise Enhances
What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith
When Christians Hold Power
When God Isn't Finished
When Change Is Rooted in Continuity
Reflections on Mom: In Life and Death
Pentecost
This Passage is No Picnic
Emergence, See?
Who Am I That I Could Hinder God?
The Shepherd
Now That I Can Dance
The Story We Don't Tell Enough
The Empty Tomb
Sermons in Stones
Construing the Cross: The Serpent
Construing the Cross: The Tree
Construing the Cross: Deliverance
Construing the Cross: Scapegoat
Construing the Cross: Sacrifice
Love Your Enemies?
Above and Be Woe
Glory Days
What the Church Cannot Do
Love for What You Hate
The Wedding at Cana
Please and Thank You
The Worship Life of Herod the King
Everything Is Everything
Such a Deal of Wonder(Christmas Eve)
Hopes and Fears
Rejoice! Again?
We Live If You Stand Firm
Grace and Peace
Watching
The Folly of the Cross
Why Tithe?
Why Give?
Why Join?
Many Possessions
Why Westminster?
Leafblowing in the Wind
Why Church? [PDF only]
Wisdom
Speaking Up
Simplicity
House Hunters
Wise Mind
Waiting on Tables and the Power of Grace
Ordinary People: The Mother of Rufus
Ordinary People: AKA Justus
Ordinary People: Joseph of Arimathea
Ordinary People: The Centurion at the Cross
Ordinary People: Huldah
Ordinary People: Orpah
Ordinary People: Paltiel
Veja Du and the Evil of Two Lessers
Ordinary People: Lot's Wife
Precious and Precise
In the Year that King Uzziah Died
Waiting to Exhale
Ascension?
What We Know
The Unpleasant Experience of Being Pruned
Youth Sunday
Disbelieving for Joy
The First to Announce
The Last One to Flee
Calm
Alliance and Defiance
Psalm 23
Not We Ourselves
The Mantle
When the Fever Left
The Seasons of a Congregation
The Absurdity of Grace
Getting to Know You
Presented in the Temple
The Beginning of the Good News
Christmas Eve Homily 2017
In and Above the World
Glory to God
Advent(ageous)
Above Every Name That Is Named
The Case for Free Trade
Reflections on Remembrance Sunday
What the Wise Consider
Page 451
Where Does Westminster Fit Within Christianity Today?
24 Karat Magic
Understanding and Engaging Those With Dementia (Deacon Event)
The Ten Commandments
Authority Issues
Knowing History
Through the Sea
Summed Up
The Burning Bush
Q&A
Words Matter
The Pit and the Rope
Ultimate Fighting Discipleship
Rachel and Leah
A Ladder Set Upon the Earth
Jacob and Esau
Isaac and Rebekah
Leaders and People in a Democracy
Considering Hagar
Love Sent
The Two Directions of Creation
Ready to Activate
The Last Memory
Two Sermons in One
Orating or Bestriding
Youth Sunday 2017
I Want to Preach Resurrection, Too
Forgiving and Retaining at Easter
Before the Great Commission
The Poet Thinks About the Donkey
If You Had Been Here
A Risk on the Part of God
Oh, the Water
The Value of Geography
Good for Food
Call and Response
Turn the Other Cheek
The Sermon on the Mount
Phrases
From the Mount, a Sermon
When Jesus Began
Heavy Lifting
A Time for Every Matter
Christmas Day Scripture and Readings
Christmas Eve 8 PM Service Homily
Christmas Eve 11AM Service: "Treasure These Words"
Joseph and the Moral Imagination
A Pesky, Little Translation Note
From the Stump of Jesse
Keeping Watch
The Restoration of the Ordinary
A Word of Caution and a Word of Hope
Who Knew?
Are You A Good Person?
The Judge and the Widow
Ten Lepers
How Did We Get Here?
Shrewd
The Searcher
Philemon
Awkward Dinner Parties
Bent Out of Shape
A Long Division Problem
Does God Breathe Through the Jewels in the Attic?
Jewels in the Attic?: Ideas Have Consequences
Jewels in the Attic? Money Matters
Jewels in the Attic? The Social Safety Net
Jewels in the Attic? Speech and Conduct
Souls and Trolls
Jewels in the Attic? The Qualifications of Leaders
Jewels in the Attic?: A Hint of Equality
Are There Jewels in the Attic?
Confirming the Welfare Plan
Licking the Water
"A Very Great Imponderable"
Pentecost Babel
Being Prayed For
The Peace That Is No Peace
Youth Sunday
Unsnatched
The Christ is In the Details
It Was Not Just Thomas
The Call
Good Friday Reflection
Maundy Thursday Reflection
Who Made the Eyes?
The Earth Is Not Too Low
"I Didn't Know They Made Churches Like This Anymore"
Many Sunnes
All Wood to Resound
The Loss of Wonder
Touched My Mouth: A Sermon for Ordination of Officers
From Heaven to Earth
The Wedding at Cana
More Than Key, Roosevelt, Memorial, or Wilson
A Striking Mode of Life
The One Childhood Story of Jesus in the Bible
Has Not
Thomas Boswell's Christmas
The Speech That Linus Didn't Give
Stand Up and Raise Your Heads
Emerson's Divinity School Address Revisited
The Leaf
Westminster at 75: Entrusted
Westminster at 75: Does Mainline Christianity Have a Future?
Westminster at 75: Always Re-forming
Westminster at 75: Our Impossible Possibility
Westminster At 75: "All Things to All People?"
Westminster at 75: How Shall They Hear?
Westminster at 75: To-Dos and To-Dont's
Westminster at 75: Cards on the Window Sill
A Word Fitly Spoken
Christ and Culture: What Now?
Christ the Transformer of Culture
Christ and Culture in Paradox
Christ Above Culture
The Christ of Culture
Christ Against Culture
Christ and Culture: An Overview
Conflicts of Interest
You're Invited
The Ambiguity of Eloquence
Vision Problems
The Pace of Change