Knox Presbyterian Church

Listen to the sermon on the “Kingdom Stories: The Pharisee & the Tax Collector”.

Listen to the sermon on the “Kingdom Stories:  Hearers & Doers”.
Matthew 7:24-28 and 21:28-32

The text for this sermon is: Matthew 13: 44-46
These are simple parables, really.
But as I read and studied them both throughout the week, I began to wonder if they do something unlike any of the other parables that Jesus tells. I began to wonder if they unmask the essential crisis of Christian faith in [...]

The text for this sermon is: Matthew 13:31-32
Today’s parable told by Jesus is another farming parable in which someone sows seeds in a field. Let’s hear it again:
He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest [...]

The text for this Sermon is: Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43
This is the 2nd sermon on the parables of Jesus.
Last week we looked at the parable of the Sower. That particular parable told the story of a farmer who sowed seed in a field. The seed landed on four different types of soil, but [...]

The text for this sermon is: Matthew 13:1-9
Today we begin a sermon series on the Parables of Jesus.
Why a sermon series on Parables? Well, one reason is because I’ve never preached a sermon series on them before, so I thought it would be kind of interesting, challenging and even fun. Call me [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I am sure you all came to worship knowing that today is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
I have to tell you that I really struggled with how much to deal with this particular event in today’s worship.
I eventually [...]

Last week we started a sermon series on the Marks of Membership.
The topic for last week’s sermon was “Grow” and I summarized the idea of that aspect of membership by saying:
A member of the church constantly seeks to grow in his/her relationship with God through learning, prayer, and worship, and by committing themselves to [...]

Over the next five weeks – with a short break on September 11th – we’re going to talk about the Marks of Membership.
These detail the variety of things we are called to commit ourselves to as members of a congregation. The list comes from our denomination’s new form of government, and is found in [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed something that is becoming a fairly common trend or problem in society today. I’ve noticed it even in myself. The problem is this…
No matter where we are it seems like we want to be someplace else. We can’t stay focused on what is right [...]