Knox Church Sermons Knox Presbyterian Church

When I was in High School, my choir teacher was very fond of a specific joke that he loved to tell to all the new incoming students. With apologies to my paraphrasing of his comedic talents, it went something like this. “There once was a man who died and ascended to the pearly gates of […]

This is the fourth sermon in the Understanding the Bible series.  Throughout, I’ve tried to be honest about the limitations of this rapid journey through the Bible.  Today, I will probably do the greatest injustice to Scripture as we cover about 1300 years of history and several hundred pages in the average Bible…in about 15 minutes.  In most […]

This is Part 3 of our Understanding the Bible series.  In Part 1, I introduced an idea of understanding the Bible through a foundational story:  the Creation of a Covenant between God and the world, the breaking of that Covenant, and the repair and restoration of that Covenant—a story we see spring up again and again.  […]

Today, admittedly quickly and simply, I will tell the story of the Exodus.  Parts of it will be familiar to some of you:  you’ll hear about crossing the Red Sea, wandering in the wilderness, manna from heaven and water from a rock, commandments given by God on Mount Sinai and a golden calf made down in the […]