Sermons on Genesis
10 Aug 2025
9th Sunday after PentecostAugust 10, 2025Hebrews 11.1; Genesis 15.1-6 I’ve been joking with my family that I’m currently in the midst of my “ship era.” Not nearly as catchy as some of Taylor Swift’s eras, but here we are. The reason for this is that I have read back to back books which took place on 17th century Dutch trading ships and then when we were in OBX last week, we wandered around the replica of the QEII and I had to have looked…
27 July 2025
7th Sunday of PentecostJuly 27, 2025Genesis 18.20-32 I have a very odd relationship with our first lesson this morning, because on the one hand it takes me back to just one of the worst days, on the other, there is an element of that worst day that fills me with hope and love, and not that there is a third hand, but on the third hand it also makes me chuckle because in the midst of all those feelings, it was…
23 Feb 2025
7th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 23, 2025Genesis 45.3-11, 15 There are a lot of things I love about living in Virginia. Before this weekend, I would have said the mild winters, but here we are with more snow than I’ve seen in eons, even in Michigan. No, I have come to love so much about living here, but y’all (see? I even love saying y’all now), I have one really big pet peeve, and some of you know this because you’ve…
06 Oct 2024
St. FrancisOctober 6, 2024 Genesis 1.24-31 I think it’s safe to say that we all have some kind of visceral memoryaround experiences with creation; those memories which fill us up, slow ourheart rates, and bring an overwhelming sense of peace because they evoke afeeling, a feeling of being out in nature, our in God’s world and beingentirely at rest in our surroundings. For me, so many of these kinds ofmemories are tangled up in growing up in Michigan. When I…