“Well, it’s been a quiet week in Evansville, Indiana, my hometown.”  We made the national news this week when a racist customer at the Olive Garden on Green River Road requested a white server in place of the server assigned to her table.   The former...

First Presbyterian Church, Evansville Sermons

True Identity (Audio)

Here, at First Pres, we do our best to give you a little more than you might expect at other churches on a Sunday morning.  It’s not because we’re trying to proclaim ourselves better than others.  It’s just that you’ve come to expect a little more...

Possessor? Or Possessed? (Audio)

If you don’t know this about me by now, then you probably have not been paying attention.  I have a thing for mountains and for mountaintops.  I am crazy for the mountains and when I see the Rockies, or the Alleghenies, or the Smokeys, or Ben Moor on...

Long Strange Trip (Audio)

The religious landscape in the United States is in the midst of a dramatic change.  While many of us can remember a time when Sunday meant getting up and going to church without fail, with no excuse being tolerated and no explanation of why a Sunday...

Truth, Power, and the Inconvenience of the Gospel (Audio)

The story that Mark offers us on this Sunday morning is troublesome.  We’re dealing with an exorcism and that is troubling territory for proper Presbyterians.  We have far less trouble with healing stories.  After all, we have known those who were ill...

Demons and Devils?....Really? (Audio)

Telling a story is not as easy as it may appear, but we all like a good story told well.  Sometimes it has nothing to do with the subject of the story.  Uninteresting stories can become interesting simply by the way they are shared.  Apparently...

Let Me Tell You a Story (Audio)

Four weeks ago, Jesus was born. Three weeks ago, Jesus was,perhaps, two years old and the wise men visited. Last week, Jesus was an adult and went to the river to be baptized by John. And this week, Jesus is beginning his public ministry. I told you...

Legality and Grace (Audio)

It does not take us long, as children, to learn that life is full of rules.  This discovery is usually made when we inadvertently and unintentionally break one of the rules we know nothing about.  These can be rules about being at the table (“don’t...

Breaking the Rules (Audio)

We have come to that moment in advent - at which we arrive every year - when the focus for the morning centers on John the Baptist. For generations, John the Baptist has been viewed as a “warm-up act” for the arrival of Jesus.  Yes, John is important...

An Old Man's Song (Audio)

If you’ve spent any amount of time around Evansville in the last twenty years or so, you have seen more than enough of your share of these.  It used to be that the orange cones only blossomed in the spring.  But now, the orange cones seem to be...

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