Parkview Presbyterian Church

Micah 5: 2-5a; Luke 2: 1-7 Nowhere in the Church year is a place so important and that place is Bethlehem. Bethlehem these days isn’t part of Israel anymore, it is a city of 25,000  with large numbers… Read More

Zephaniah 3: 14-20; Luke 1: 56-67 Advent is about anticipation, but what we anticipate is not always what we get.  Two weeks ago we talked about nervous anticipation, last week it was urgent anticipation. Today we close off… Read More

Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 3:1-6 Like last week we talk about anticipation today as a way of understanding the season of Advent.  Today we focus on urgent anticipation. We cram a lot of events into Advent.  It’s kind of… Read More

Jeremiah 33: 14,15,16; Luke 21: 29-33 What about that fiscal cliff, huh? Everybody is talking about it. Breaking news: “no news on the fiscal cliff.”  It is as if we are about to fall of the face of… Read More

John 1: 1-5; Revelation 1: 4b-8 “All my life’s a circle. Sunrise and sundown. “ Harry Chapin sings this song.  It all comes back around. Life goes in circles, doesn’t, friends.  Thanksgiving day I walked to the river. … Read More

Hebrews 10: 16, 17, 18; Isaiah  12: 1 and 4; Jeremiah 33: 10 and 11 Psalm 147 says: “A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful.”  Ah, thankfulness, that thing we all know we should have… Read More

Matthew 12:38-44 In today’s passage Jesus provides us with a scale of sorts, a scale of how to be religious and to be giving as a religious person.  On the one end of the scale are the scribes… Read More