Knox Church Sermons

Humbug to Hallelujah, part 1 30.11.2025 ↓

“Marley was dead…”  Those are the opening words of the old Charles Dickens play A Christmas Carol, the story that has been told and retold until “Scrooge” has become synonymous with a miserly, joyless person, and if you want to sound like a grumpy, joyless downer at Christmas, everyone knows you use Scrooge’s phrase, say it with […]

The Bible in Six Verses: Isaiah 12 16.11.2025 ↓

Trust Me is the name of a brilliant short story written some decades ago by John Updike.  In a dozen or so pages, he weaves together several stories about Harold, who explores the mysteries of trust.  We meet 4 year old Harold at the edge of the swimming pool with his father’s arms outstretched; we follow […]

Not Quickly Shaken 09.11.2025 ↓

This morning’s sermon takes us to the city of Thessalonica on the shores of the Aegean Sea in Macedonia.  It is around 51CE. What drove my scripture choice today was the lectionary.  That’s the cycle of readings in the Presbyterian Church that gets us through the Bible every three years.  Most of the time in […]

Divine Disruptions – Faith Stories You Have to Hear! 05.10.2025 ↓

Over the next four weeks we’re going to be in a sermon series about growing in your relationship with God.  This growth happens in different ways for different kinds of people, and we’re going to focus on prayer, mission, music, and community.  We hope that you’ll connect with at least one if not several of […]

Welcome Home 07.09.2025 ↓

Today’s sermon is called Welcome Home. Craig Barnes is a retired pastor and President of Princeton Seminary, and the author of several books.  One of those books is called Searching for Home.  In that book, Barnes tells his own story of how “home” and “family” are complicated.  When Craig was a teenager, his own father walked […]

The Cross as the Power of God 31.08.2025 ↓

For all of the reasons indicated in my introduction it seems like today is a good day to talk a bit about church and think about who we’ve been, who we are, and who we are becoming together here at Knox.  More and more these days, we seem to hear new members and visitors who […]

Heartbreak, Grief, Loss. God Understands 13.07.2025 ↓

Over the last several weeks we’ve been talking about prophets in these Sunday morning sermons:  Deborah, Jeremiah, Amos…Jana will continue the series later this month and today we come to Hosea. I like the book of Hosea.  When I first read Hosea, I was moved to discover that God cares about regular human struggles like […]

May God Shed Grace on Thee 06.07.2025 ↓

On these days when our members have been on their Civil Rights journey, I want to call your attention to a quotation that our travelers saw on a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama; it was one of Dr. King’s favorites:  “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream…”   It is a biblical […]

Trust in God 22.06.2025 ↓

Even before last night’s news about Iran, I have been thinking, praying, wrestling with the amount of violence in our daily news cycle. Today I will share with you a story from the Book of Judges that I hope will be helpful. The point is rather simple: that Christian can be realists with respect to […]