Covenantal Calling: A sermon for Confirmation Sunday on Genesis 35:9-15 and John 15:9-17

Genesis 35:9-15
John 15:9-17

The worship video for these sermon is cued at the end of the manuscript or the entire video can be found on YouTube.

A few months ago a conversation started in a Facebook group for Presbyterian leaders about one pastor’s struggle to get a mouse out of the church kitchen.  The church didn’t want to use poison near food.  They didn’t want a trap that might hurt the mouse. The exterminator was too expensive. And on and on and on.  One witty, and maybe even tired, colleague suggested, “Just baptize and confirm it. Then you’ll never see it again. At least that’s how it works at my church.”

That’s one of those sad-funny ones, isn’t it?

In celebration of Confirmation, I share a picture of my own confirmation class. I’m the one with the shoulder length perm, white dress with a black belt, standing next to the Rev. Dr. Roy McCormick of Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Indialantic, FL. (1990)
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