Category: FPC Rolla

Preached at First Presbyterian Church of Rolla. Based on Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:47-58; Proverbs 9:1-6. Dan Brown wrote a series of books about Robert Langdon, a fictional Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology. In The Lost Symbol, Langdon tells his class, “Don’t tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god…

Preached at First Presbyterian Church of Rolla. Based on 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19; Ephesians 1:3-14. For as long as humans have owned material goods, we have been concerned about passing them on to our children. We see the next generation as a continuation of the work we have done in the world and hope that what…

Preached at First Presbyterian Church of Rolla. Based on John 15:26-16:15, Acts 2:1-21. When I was in grad school, I took a course one semester titled, “A Differential Geometric Approach to Nonlinear Control.” The course started with a discussion of manifolds, diffeomorphisms, Lie brackets and Lie derivatives, and so forth. For about six weeks, I…

See also the post with the video. Based on John 12:20-33. Every year when I go elk hunting, I disconnect from all email and voicemail for about a week. Last fall when I checked my messages, I discovered that I had missed a message from Mark, an engineer at Ameren’s Technology Applications Center in Champaign…

I haven’t blogged much recently. Among other things, I have been busy with the course on preaching that I’m taking this semester. If you would like to provide anonymous feedback on the sermon, please visit: https://forms.gle/eEUkkFJmwzGCAGq98

Preached for December 27, 2020, at First Presbyterian Church of Rolla. Based on Galatians 4:4-7 and Luke 2:22-40. https://faith.jonathankimball.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Sermon20201227.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

First Sunday of Advent. Based on Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37. https://faith.jonathankimball.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sermon20201129.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download