Parkview Presbyterian Church

Micah: 6: 1, 6, 8; Matthew 5: 3-7, 10, 11,12 Roughly a billion and a half people celebrate the Lunar New year this weekend.  Envelopes of lucky money are being passed around.  Family members are on their best… Read More

Matthew 3:  16,17 ; Acts 10: 34-38, 47,48 Shattering the pecking order We all live with pecking orders in our lives.  The idea of “favorite” is something no culture has been able to get rid of.  As much… Read More

Genesis 1: 1-3; John 1: 10-18 Incarnation We have talked about the first three verses about the Bible and the first chapter of the Gospel of John.  We saw that while Matthew, Mark and Luke in their Gospels… Read More

Isaiah 63:7-9; Mathew 2:12-15 We do not hear about the Coptic Christians of Egypt very much in this country.  We think of Egypt as Muslim and Islam is the religion of the majority. But Egypt had one of… Read More

Isaiah 7: 13,14,15; Luke 2: 1, 3-7 Scarcity In the summer of 1980 I was working as a fulltime youth director at a church in one of the wealthiest part of the Silicon Valley.  I had an advanced… Read More

Isaiah 35: 3-5; Matthew 11: 7-10 Feeble knees and uncomfortable clothes Our texts tell the truth about our lives. They are a kind of mirror.  Isaiah talks about weak hands and feeble knees and how they must be… Read More

Isaiah 21: 1-4, Romans 13:11-12 Dawn or Dusk thinking? Both Isaiah and Romans paint a picture of the dawning if a new age.  As such they are perfect Advent passages.  We go into a new church year today,… Read More