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Westminster Presbyterian Church, Alexandria VA — 568 episodes

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Honor Your Father and Your Mother

2

Is Christ the Only Way?

3

The Bible for Confirmands (and Others)

4

All Things in Common?

5

Unseen and Unheard

6

Alive to God

7

Reflections

8

Once For All

9

Lift Your Voice

10

A Horn of Oil

11

Enter My Rest

12

Blessed to Be a Blessing

13

Privacy

14

It Is Good For Us to Be Here

15

Salt of the Earth

16

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

17

Light Has Already Shined

18

Gifts and Graces

19

Join the Triumph

20

Inheritance

21

What Happens Next

22

Baby in Distress

23

Reflection

24

Homily

25

The Weight and Hope on Joseph

26

Singing Mary's Song

27

When Hope Trembles

28

The End of the Matter

29

Remember Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth

30

Harmony Way

31

For Good

32

Sleep, Dearie, Sleep

33

What I Got

34

The Value of a Friend

35

A Measure of Finding

36

Joy in Enjoyment

37

Pessimistic or Wise?

38

Crown of Glory

39

Glad

40

Oxygen Masks

41

What Is the Life to Come?

42

Why the Church?

43

What Is Humanity?

44

What Is Salvation?

45

Queen Vashti

46

Reuben

47

Laban and Leah

48

Michal

49

Gamaliel

50

Who Is the Holy Spirit?

51

Who Is Jesus Christ?

52

Who Is God?

53

With Reverence

54

How Do We Know God?

55

Make Your Bed

56

From God or Not?

57

Obligation

58

Little Cat Feet

59

Reflections

60

Stones

61

Restoration

62

Not One Lost

63

No

64

Wait

65

The Grand Inquisitor

66

A Mountain, a Vision, and a Book

67

Should Faith Be Rational?

68

You Who Laugh

69

Youth Sunday: Coming Home

70

I Corinthians 13

71

What Unites Us

72

The Common Good

73

Professor Harold Hill Appears in the Bible

74

Mangers and Magi

75

Radiant Baby

76

Christmas Eve Homily

77

Jesus and Me

78

From Bethlehem

79

Zephaniah's Lamp

80

Pledged

81

Not of This Time

82

Not From This World

83

What We Treasure

84

Seek and Pray: An Election Sermon

85

Shhoulding Ourselves

86

Greatness

87

Possessions

88

King of the Hill

89

Competition

90

Can We Be Followers of Christ in Our Complex World?

91

Bearing the Cross

92

One-Hit Wonders

93

Far More

94

Within

95

The Leader's Wisdom

96

Bread of Life

97

Prayground

98

Out on the Water

99

The Hopefulness of Crowds

100

Snared

101

Except

102

God is Love

103

Armor in the Armoire

104

Seed Growing Secretly

105

Binding the Strong Man

106

Share

107

Truth

108

Bonus Moms

109

Chosen

110

Abide

111

The Good Shepherd

112

Come and See

113

Cooperation

114

The First Witness

115

A Young Donkey

116

A Green Day

117

Lifted Up

118

A Lenten Lament

119

Taking Jesus Aside

120

Greater Than

121

A Place at the Table

122

Healing

123

Prevailing

124

Calling

125

First Words

126

The Cosmic Setting

127

Before the Soup Gets Cold

128

Christmas Eve Homily

129

The Worst Pageant Ever

130

No End

131

Simply a Witness

132

Minster Ways

133

Hope-Colored Glasses

134

May the People Blossom

135

A Code of Honor

136

Flood Stage

137

Walking About Westminster

138

Whose Coin Is It Anyway?

139

Remembering Leah

140

A People and a Place

141

A Communion Homily

142

Remembering Rachel

143

The Power to Wait It Out

144

Binding and Loosing

145

Shouting Down Satan

146

Jacob's Dream

147

Rebekah Why I?

148

Rebekah I Am

149

Honorably Named

150

Genesis 22, Again

151

Lucid Realism

152

Laughing with Sarah

153

Irreconcilable Faith

154

Be Bold

155

The Faith We Create

156

Beginning with Absence

157

Giving Up Power

158

The Quiet Breath

159

How You Can Fall in Love with the Bible

160

Wo Helped Me Fall in Love with the Bible

161

The Week of Gracious Living

162

Tell the Story

163

How I Fell in Love with the Bible

164

Love Beyond Sight

165

Delight

166

My God, Why?

167

Jesus Wept

168

The Parents of the Man Born Blind

169

The Samaritan Woman

170

Nicodemus

171

Tempted by the Future

172

The Right Headline

173

Ash Wednesday Meditation

174

Tempted by the Past

175

The Love Gospel

176

City on a Hill

177

Blessed Are You When

178

Would You Rather

179

Come and See

180

The Upside of Anger

181

Home By Another Way

182

All Aglow

183

Christmas Eve Homily - 8 PM

184

Christmas Eve Reflections

185

Christmas Eve Homily - 11 AM

186

Royalty and Manger Dust

187

Advent Burro

188

The Simple Act of Getting Dressed

189

Youth Sunday: Lessons from Exile

190

The Haves and Have Naughts

191

What the Perishable Remember

192

WPC and Commitment

193

WPC and the Future

194

The More I Wonder

195

WPC and the Present

196

The Journey Home

197

Anyone of Your Kin

198

With All Your Heart

199

Welcome Home

200

Searched and Known

201

How the Turn Tables

202

Between Fight & Flight

203

The Song of the Vineyard

204

Come, Let Us Reason Together

205

Old Barns

206

Be Amenable

207

A Famine of Hearing

208

Land Weighted Down

209

Permission to Compromise

210

Elijah's Mantle

211

A Still, Small Voice

212

A Little Lower Than the Angels

213

The Source of Courage

214

Make Our Home

215

Who Are We To Hinder God?

216

Tabitha

217

From the Heart

218

A Sermon for Bible Sunday

219

Newness of Life

220

Meditation

221

Loved Them To The End

222

Motifs of Crucifixion: Substitution

223

Motifs of Crucifixion: Descent Into Hell

224

Youth Sunday

225

Motifs of Crucifixion: Christus Victor

226

Remain Breakable

227

The Grand Inquisitor

228

Meditation

229

Motifs of Crucifixion: The Great Assize

230

Both/And

231

Motifs of Crucifixion

232

Anyway, Whose Line Is It?

233

Motifs of Crucifixion: Blood Sacrifice

234

Motifs of Crucifixion: Exodus

235

Sleight of Hand

236

Grace and Truth

237

"In Favor with God and Man"

238

Homily

239

What Child Is This?

240

Don't Call Me Surely

241

Yeats and Malachi

242

A Thrill of Hope

243

Daniel's Vision

244

The Cross and the Rectification of All Things

245

Heroic Struggle

246

The Cross and the Gravity of Sin

247

A Stewardship Benediction

248

Contending with the Almighty

249

A Horse With No Mane

250

The Godlessness of the Cross

251

The Primacy of the Cross

252

Wisdom Manifest

253

When Covid Met Delta

254

Privilege and Responsibility

255

Keep Your Eyes on the Field

256

Filled with the Holy Spirit

257

Characters with Character: Joseph of Arimathea

258

Characters with Character: Elizabeth

259

Characters with Character: Uriah the Hittite

260

Characters with Character: Abigail

261

Characters with Character: Lois

262

Characters with Character: Lydia

263

Characters with Character: Daughters of Zelophehad

264

Characters with Character: Miriam

265

Going Across to the Other Side

266

Help from the Sanctuary

267

The Beginning of the Beginning

268

Life with Honor

269

The Testimony of God Is Greater

270

Faith Conquers the World

271

We Love Because God First Loved Us

272

God Is Greater Than Our Hearts

273

An Ode to the Darkness

274

After Covid

275

An Easter Prayer

276

The Paradox of Palm Sunday

277

OPA!

278

Wisdom from "Equus"

279

After Times

280

The Simple Concept of Taking Up the Cross

281

Leaving the Ark

282

Through Thick and Thin

283

"Many" Is Not "All"

284

The Most Important Power Jesus Has

285

At Hand: What the Coming of Christ Means and Doesn't Mean

286

Eli and Ancestry

287

In the Spirit

288

Now Made Known

289

Check the Boxes

290

To Their Own Towns

291

The Biography of the Virgin Birth

292

All Decked Up

293

Keeping Watch

294

The Least of These

295

The Parable of the Talents

296

A Post-Election Sermon

297

Stewardship in a Time of Coronavirus

298

Status Quo

299

Think on These Things

300

Two or Three

301

The Parable of the Sower

302

How Do You End a Parable?

303

God Intended It for Good

304

Judah Drawing Near

305

Blocked from Behind

306

In the Beginning...

307

Unity Redux

308

Joseph: The Pit and the Rope

309

Jacob's Holy Limp

310

Rachel and Leah

311

Rebekah

312

Isaac's Comfort

313

Nobody's Perfect

314

He himself carried the fire and the knife…

315

Race, Westminster, and "Lord of the Conscience"

316

Unfinished Ceilings

317

Land, Descendants, and Blessing

318

Beginnings

319

The Parable of the Innkeeper

320

Touches on the Fringe

321

The Finest of Materials

322

Imago Dei

323

1 Peter and the Grapes of Wrath

324

All of Us Are Witnesses

325

Easters

326

What You Signed Up For

327

The Will of Grace

328

A Run-On Sentence

329

The Ant and the Sluggard

330

Face to the Wall

331

Count Our Days

332

If You Are

333

Light to All the House

334

The Beatitudes

335

Leaps and Bounds

336

Change My Name

337

Let It Be So Now

338

Eliot and the Magi

339

Joseph and Three Dreams

340

Sweet the Timber

341

Privily

342

Leaps and Bounds

343

The Hours

344

Four Texts and a Promise

345

Why Give?

346

Be Humble

347

Why Organized Religion?

348

Why Ask Why?

349

Why Mission?

350

Why Learn?

351

Why Worship?

352

When We Disagree

353

The Sons of Sceva Scurry

354

Your Time Has Come

355

Innumerable Grains of Sand

356

The Relentless Return

357

Freedom Bound

358

When Compromise Enhances

359

What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith

360

When Christians Hold Power

361

When God Isn't Finished

362

When Change Is Rooted in Continuity

363

Reflections on Mom: In Life and Death

364

Pentecost

365

This Passage is No Picnic

366

Emergence, See?

367

Who Am I That I Could Hinder God?

368

The Shepherd

369

Now That I Can Dance

370

The Story We Don't Tell Enough

371

The Empty Tomb

372

Sermons in Stones

373

Construing the Cross: The Serpent

374

Construing the Cross: The Tree

375

Construing the Cross: Deliverance

376

Construing the Cross: Scapegoat

377

Construing the Cross: Sacrifice

378

Love Your Enemies?

379

Above and Be Woe

380

Glory Days

381

What the Church Cannot Do

382

Love for What You Hate

383

The Wedding at Cana

384

Please and Thank You

385

The Worship Life of Herod the King

386

Everything Is Everything

387

Such a Deal of Wonder(Christmas Eve)

388

Hopes and Fears

389

Rejoice! Again?

390

We Live If You Stand Firm

391

Grace and Peace

392

Watching

393

The Folly of the Cross

394

Why Tithe?

395

Why Give?

396

Why Join?

397

Many Possessions

398

Why Westminster?

399

Leafblowing in the Wind

400

Why Church? [PDF only]

401

Wisdom

402

Speaking Up

403

Simplicity

404

House Hunters

405

Wise Mind

406

Waiting on Tables and the Power of Grace

407

Ordinary People: The Mother of Rufus

408

Ordinary People: AKA Justus

409

Ordinary People: Joseph of Arimathea

410

Ordinary People: The Centurion at the Cross

411

Ordinary People: Huldah

412

Ordinary People: Orpah

413

Ordinary People: Paltiel

414

Veja Du and the Evil of Two Lessers

415

Ordinary People: Lot's Wife

416

Precious and Precise

417

In the Year that King Uzziah Died

418

Waiting to Exhale

419

Ascension?

420

What We Know

421

The Unpleasant Experience of Being Pruned

422

Youth Sunday

423

Disbelieving for Joy

424

The First to Announce

425

The Last One to Flee

426

Calm

427

Alliance and Defiance

428

Psalm 23

429

Not We Ourselves

430

The Mantle

431

When the Fever Left

432

The Seasons of a Congregation

433

The Absurdity of Grace

434

Getting to Know You

435

Presented in the Temple

436

The Beginning of the Good News

437

Christmas Eve Homily 2017

438

In and Above the World

439

Glory to God

440

Advent(ageous)

441

Above Every Name That Is Named

442

The Case for Free Trade

443

Reflections on Remembrance Sunday

444

What the Wise Consider

445

Page 451

446

Where Does Westminster Fit Within Christianity Today?

447

24 Karat Magic

448

Understanding and Engaging Those With Dementia (Deacon Event)

449

The Ten Commandments

450

Authority Issues

451

Knowing History

452

Through the Sea

453

Summed Up

454

The Burning Bush

455

Q&A

456

Words Matter

457

The Pit and the Rope

458

Ultimate Fighting Discipleship

459

Rachel and Leah

460

A Ladder Set Upon the Earth

461

Jacob and Esau

462

Isaac and Rebekah

463

Leaders and People in a Democracy

464

Considering Hagar

465

Love Sent

466

The Two Directions of Creation

467

Ready to Activate

468

The Last Memory

469

Two Sermons in One

470

Orating or Bestriding

471

Youth Sunday 2017

472

I Want to Preach Resurrection, Too

473

Forgiving and Retaining at Easter

474

Before the Great Commission

475

The Poet Thinks About the Donkey

476

If You Had Been Here

477

A Risk on the Part of God

478

Oh, the Water

479

The Value of Geography

480

Good for Food

481

Call and Response

482

Turn the Other Cheek

483

The Sermon on the Mount

484

Phrases

485

From the Mount, a Sermon

486

When Jesus Began

487

Heavy Lifting

488

A Time for Every Matter

489

Christmas Day Scripture and Readings

490

Christmas Eve 8 PM Service Homily

491

Christmas Eve 11AM Service: "Treasure These Words"

492

Joseph and the Moral Imagination

493

A Pesky, Little Translation Note

494

From the Stump of Jesse

495

Keeping Watch

496

The Restoration of the Ordinary

497

A Word of Caution and a Word of Hope

498

Who Knew?

499

Are You A Good Person?

500

The Judge and the Widow

501

Ten Lepers

502

How Did We Get Here?

503

Shrewd

504

The Searcher

505

Philemon

506

Awkward Dinner Parties

507

Bent Out of Shape

508

A Long Division Problem

509

Does God Breathe Through the Jewels in the Attic?

510

Jewels in the Attic?: Ideas Have Consequences

511

Jewels in the Attic? Money Matters

512

Jewels in the Attic? The Social Safety Net

513

Jewels in the Attic? Speech and Conduct

514

Souls and Trolls

515

Jewels in the Attic? The Qualifications of Leaders

516

Jewels in the Attic?: A Hint of Equality

517

Are There Jewels in the Attic?

518

Confirming the Welfare Plan

519

Licking the Water

520

"A Very Great Imponderable"

521

Pentecost Babel

522

Being Prayed For

523

The Peace That Is No Peace

524

Youth Sunday

525

Unsnatched

526

The Christ is In the Details

527

It Was Not Just Thomas

528

The Call

529

Good Friday Reflection

530

Maundy Thursday Reflection

531

Who Made the Eyes?

532

The Earth Is Not Too Low

533

"I Didn't Know They Made Churches Like This Anymore"

534

Many Sunnes

535

All Wood to Resound

536

The Loss of Wonder

537

Touched My Mouth: A Sermon for Ordination of Officers

538

From Heaven to Earth

539

More Than Key, Roosevelt, Memorial, or Wilson

540

A Striking Mode of Life

541

The One Childhood Story of Jesus in the Bible

542

Has Not

543

Thomas Boswell's Christmas

544

The Speech That Linus Didn't Give

545

Stand Up and Raise Your Heads

546

Emerson's Divinity School Address Revisited

547

The Leaf

548

Westminster at 75: Entrusted

549

Westminster at 75: Does Mainline Christianity Have a Future?

550

Westminster at 75: Always Re-forming

551

Westminster at 75: Our Impossible Possibility

552

Westminster At 75: "All Things to All People?"

553

Westminster at 75: How Shall They Hear?

554

Westminster at 75: To-Dos and To-Dont's

555

Westminster at 75: Cards on the Window Sill

556

A Word Fitly Spoken

557

Christ and Culture: What Now?

558

Christ the Transformer of Culture

559

Christ and Culture in Paradox

560

Christ Above Culture

561

The Christ of Culture

562

Christ Against Culture

563

Christ and Culture: An Overview

564

Conflicts of Interest

565

You're Invited

566

The Ambiguity of Eloquence

567

Vision Problems

568

The Pace of Change