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Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church Psalm 90 December 30, 2018 INTRODUCTION This is an in-between time. We’re still in the Christmas season, but all the present have been open. And we’re just a day and a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Jeff Garrison Homily for Nicky Pipkin’s Funeral December 22, 2018 Psalm 100 I first met Nicky at the beginning of the 4th Grade when we were both assigned to Miss Freeman’s classroom. A shy boy, he was by far the … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church Christmas Eve 2018 John 1:1-14 Throughout Advent, we’ve been reading traditional seasonal passages about the coming and birth of Christ using the various Christian traditions outlined by Richard Foster in Streams of Living Water … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church Luke 2:8-20 December 23, 2018 This Advent and Christmas season we have explored the traditional passages of the season through the lens provided in Richard Foster’s book, Streams of Living Waters. Foster outlines … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church Luke 3:1-20 December 16, 2018 Let’s watch a video…[1] Those of us who anticipate the coming of something great during this season may, once again, be sucked in by Madison Avenue. If … Continue reading
A version of this article of mine appeared in the Presbyterian Outlook, volume 181, #42 (December 20, 1999. The elevator inside the over-sized Coca-Cola bottle whisks us up to the fourth floor. As we step out and back into the 1930’s, … Continue reading
Joseph D. Small, Flawed Church, Faithful God: A Reformed Ecclesiology for the Real World (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018), 242 pages including indexes and bibliography. It has been suggested that ecclesiology, the doctrine of the church, is the weak link … Continue reading
I was scheduled to preach at an anniversary service for a church in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Sunday, September 23. Unfortunately, I was not able to make it as all the roads had flooded thanks to hurricane Florence. Furthermore, the … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church Matthew 1:18-25 December 9, 2018 This Advent and Christmas season we’re exploring seasonal scripture passages through the lens of various traditions in which we encounter and respond to God. As I pointed … Continue reading
Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again? A Memoir (New York: Harpers, 2018) , 347 pages including five appendices and no illustrations except an ink figure of a dog drawn by Beetle, the author’s daughter, while I waited for … Continue reading
A blessing for Walt and Carol Walt and Carol, when you first came here, I am sure you had no idea what this place would hold: the joy and laughter, the celebration of holidays, the seriousness of the study of … Continue reading
Jeff Garrison Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church December 2, 2018 Luke 1:46-55 The sanctuary at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church is magical this time of the year. I hope you have a chance, when driving by at night, to enjoy our trees … Continue reading