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Question: How radical is our “sinful nature?” What is our capacity for good?
Our second lesson, as if the first were not confusing enough, is from the second chapter of Genesis, the fall of Adam and Eve. I’m not sure if I need to say this or [...]

Had a wonderful day yesterday being “installed” as the Pastor at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael 
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Here’s my question: So if God is a God of love – always putting value into creation, then what are we to make of all the judgment passages in the Bible?
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Mike says that waiting isn’t going to do it, and at one level I very much agree. But at another level it seems to me that the “new thing” is generated by Spirit and not by us, so we wait . . . while being active.
I’ll have to think about this [...]

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Our gospel lesson this morning is, not surprisingly, the Easter story. I did once threaten to preach a Good Friday sermon on Easter Sunday, but I really was only kidding. So, from the gospel of Luke, I would like you [...]

Elizabeth Hoffman Alexander

Our second scripture lesson will be very familiar. Its from the 19th chapter of the gospel according to St. Luke. I’d like to read you the beginning of the passage which starts back chapter 9, verse 51.
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go [...]