As I write this blog, Hurricane Dorian is off the coast of the southeastern United States battering the coastline with 120-mile an hour winds and dumping torrential amounts of rainfall. The pictures coming out of the Bahamas, where Dorian struck earlier this week as a...
Majoring on the Minors Malachi: Because of God’s Love Malachi 3:1-4 and 4:1-6 September 1, 2019 M. Michelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church Eleven weeks ago, we started our summertime journey through the Minor Prophets, and today, we arrive at the twelfth and final one, the prophet Malachi. Malachi writes 450 years...
August 29, 2019 Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear someone bemoan the state of affairs in our public discourse. From family, friends, neighbors, and parishioners alike I hear laments of the incivility, the lack of respect, the name calling, the polarization coming from...
Majoring on the Minors Zechariah: A Purpose-Driven Life Zechariah 14:1-9 August 25, 2019 M. Michelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church Click below to hear the sermon. [audio m4a="https://calvarypres.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sunday-August-25-2019.m4a"][/audio] Leo Tolstoy is regarded as one of the great novelists in world literature. He wrote many books of lasting significance, including War and Peace. Most people...
Within the past month, two stories have appeared in the newspaper that put the randomness of life on vivid display. In one instance, the randomness was tragic; in the other, inspirational. The two events both occurred on beaches, but the beaches were over 5000 miles apart. ...
Majoring on the Minors Haggai Is for Hope Haggai 1:7-11 and 2:1-9 August 18, 2019 M. Michelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church With the conclusion of the prophet Zephaniah, who we read last week, the Minor Prophets take a sharp turn. Up to this point the prophets had been tasked with calling...
This summer I have been preaching through the Minor Prophets. There are twelve of these Old Testament books, and they are called “minor” not because of their relative importance, but because of their length. I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and I’ve learned a lot. ...
Zephaniah: The Day of the Lord Zephaniah 3:14-20 August 11, 2019 M. Michelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church One of the challenges of preaching a sermon series on the Minor Prophets is that prophets have always had a tough job. God doesn’t call prophets to action to spread the word about...
Fall Worship Schedule 2019 “Walking Wet” series Coming this Fall: "Walking Wet". Water plays a central role in the stories of scripture, from the chaotic waters of creation, to the River of Life in Revelation, where chaos is no more. Sometimes there is too much water (think Noah);...
Much has been made of the decline of the Church, particularly mainline churches, over the past several decades. Dropping attendance, inability to maintain buildings and property, loss of influence in the public sphere, the emergence of the “spiritual but not religious”—take your pick, there...