Knox Presbyterian Church Podcast

Easter Happens

Every year around this time, the same question starts to surface: Did it really happen? Did Jesus actually rise from the dead? Or is Easter just a beautiful story we tell ourselves—something…

Last Words: "Into your hands I commend my spirit"

There’s an old saying that goes like this: People die the way they live. In those final moments—when everything else falls away—what’s left tends to reveal what mattered most all along. What we…

Last Words: "I am thirsty"

We are all thirsty. Not just physically—though we know that feeling too. That dry, empty, can’t-think-about-anything-else kind of thirst. But there’s another kind of thirst we carry every day. A…

Last Words: "Why have you forsaken me?"

A few weeks before Easter, I saw a sign in the window of a gift shop that made me stop in my tracks. It said: “We make Easter easy.” And in a way, that makes perfect sense. Easter is easy. Easter is…

Last Words: "Here is your son"

For the last few weeks, the internet has been captivated by a tiny monkey. A baby macaque named Punch at a zoo in Japan somehow captured millions of hearts. People watched video after video of him…

Last Words: "Today you will be with me in paradise"

Most of us don’t think of ourselves as the kind of people who would end up on a cross. We’re not criminals. We’re not the worst of the worst. We’re not the people everyone else looks at and says,…

Last Words: Father, Forgive Them

Nobody wakes up in the morning hoping they’ll need forgiveness. We don’t want to be the one who messed up. We don’t want to be the one who said too much… or didn’t say enough. We don’t want to be the…

Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

There’s something honest about ashes. Ashes don’t pretend. Ashes don’t perform. Ashes don’t polish themselves up and try to look impressive. Ashes tell the truth. They remind us that we are fragile.…

Sabbath: Faith In a World Made Whole

Most of us are rehearsing something. Not literally, of course. You probably didn’t wake up this morning, grab a script, and start practicing lines in the mirror. But whether we realize it or not,…

Sabbath: Connection for an Isolated World

Last week we talked about how Sabbath restores us spiritually — how it recenters us and reminds us who we are and whose we are. But if we’re honest, there’s another kind of exhaustion many of us…

Sabbath: Worship for a Secular World

Restoration is a powerful thing. Watching something old, worn down, and corroded slowly brought back to life reminds us that damage doesn’t have to be the end of the story. With time, care, and…

Sabbath: Delight for a Dissatisfied World

You were made for joy! Joy is part of what it means to live in Christ.  Happiness is part of what it means to abide in Christ. You and I were made to be connected with Jesus, to be united the way a…

Sabbath: Rest for an Overworking World

Some weeks leave us gasping. We carry too much—news that never lets up, responsibilities that don’t pause, worries that follow us into bed and greet us when we wake. We grip our schedules, our work,…

Sabbath: Peace for an Anxious World

The truth is hurry IS a sickness. Hurry hurts our health – our physical health, our emotional health, our relational health, and yes, our spiritual health.  As the modern psychologist Carl Jung once…

Star Sunday

What Shall We Call Him?: Immanuel (God with Us)

The incarnation takes everything we think we know about God and stands it on its head. But it’s not just that. Beyond the miracle and the mystery of the incarnation itself, there’s another incredibly…

What Shall We Call Him?: Jesus (the Lord Saves)

We all have our ways we like to think of God, don’t we? We all have our own preferred pictures of what we think God is like. We form those pictures from a lot of different places. From books and…

What Shall We Call Him?: King of Kings & Lord of Lords

The word Advent means ‘arrival’ or ‘coming.’ One of the things we celebrate during Advent is Christ’s arrival in Bethlehem—that’s obviously central to the season. But even as we look backward to…

What Shall We Call Him?: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace

Advent gently beckons your gaze toward Bethlehem. Advent reminds us that the great event we long for at Christmas is not Santa’s drop down the chimney, but God’s coming down to us in the birth of…

It's All a Gift: You Can't Outgive God

The greatest gift God gives us is the opportunity to be part of his kingdom. The greatest gift God gives us is opportunity to be part of his kingdom. Here at Knox, the kingdom of God is important to…