6/11/2013
Recently
(early 2013), I discovered the sermons of my college pastor online.
While at Georgetown University (1991-95), I, along with 10-20 other
Georgetown friends, attended Fourth Presbyterian Church, a 10-15 minute
drive from campus through the manicured estates of Northwest Washington,
DC to the leafy suburban neighborhood of Bethesda in Maryland.
We drank in the deep wisdom of our college director, Chuck Jacob (now a
senior pastor at Knox Presbyterian in Ann Arbor, MI) and of Dr. Rob
Norris on Sunday mornings (and at times, classes he taught during the
week days).
When I attended, the US Vice-President Dan Quayle and his family (and
security detail), my Georgetown professor former UN Ambassador Jeanne
Kirkpatrick, and many other well-known names from politics, academia and
media, also attended. Dr. Norris' predecessor was then-chaplain of the
US Senate, Dr. Richard Halverson.
All to say, if all of these accomplished people came Sunday after
Sunday and benefited from Dr. Norris' sermons, maybe we too can find
intellectual as well as spiritual nourishment from these talks?
It does not take long before one is taken in by the profundity and the
humor -- not to mention, the accent! -- of Dr. Norris's exposition.
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