Parkview Presbyterian Church

Job 42: 8,10; Mark 10: 46-48 When words fail In our Parkview sermon format we have three moments and dimensions: encounter with the text, connecting with life and finding new meaning. These are all important moments so it… Read More

Mark 10: 14-16; Hebrew 2:6,7 Saint and Sinner I would like to do something slightly unusual and have three popular songs from decades back do much of the talking for this reflection. But let us first look at… Read More

Numbers 11: 26-29; Mark 9:38 In our name A Presbyterian author writes; “ Buechner is my name. It is pronounced Beekner. If someone pronounces it in some foolish way, I have feeling that’s what foolish is me.  If… Read More

Exodus 3: 14,15; Mark 8: 27-30 Changing biographies Last week we talked how we use our words to paint the canvas of our lives and how the painting we paint of our lives has a place within the… Read More

Proverbs 22: 10, 11; Mark 7: 27; James 3:1-12 To speak or not to speak When we read today texts in the program, it seems like mumbo jumbo. And perhaps when you put the text together like that,… Read More

Mark 7: 14,15; James 1: 22-27 Doing good from within I see three questions the lectionary texts make us look at: in our doing are we true to ourselves, true to our faith and true to the facts?… Read More

Genesis 8: 1,8,9; John 3: 8; Acts: 2:1,2 A tale of islands I saw a brief cartoon of about a lonely volcanic island recently. The visuals were great, the camera approaches the island from the sky as in… Read More