Gina N. Brown

St. Paul’s Anglican Church – August 4, 2019 Salutations: To Rev. Ant thank you for the opportunity to share with St. Paul’s To my husband and bestie Isaac in his absence and to my side kick Zahria-Jade who is here with me today. To my Dad, my Mom and John, and Nana Adams and all my family and friends that came out today to support me.  To everyone assembled here today - the Lord be with you! May we bow our heads in prayer: Pray Sermon Topic:  I Bid You Shalom Movement 1:      Sermon Introduction As some of you may be aware, I have fallen in love with Biblical Hebrew.  This affair started on the first day of Ancient Hebrew 101 when my professor sang the first chapter of Genesis, the creation story to us.  It was absolutely beautiful and ethereal. I fell completely in love.  Unfortunately, Biblical Hebrew is not returning my affection and I have the grades to prove it.  However, like most in love I will continue to

This is a critic by Dr. Anna Carter-Florence, Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching, Columbia Theological Seminary, of my sermon "Do You Have Need Of The I Am?" 11 May 2019 Dear Gina, Thank you for your sermon.  I think you have some wonderful gifts for preaching, all of which were out in abundance. Your reverence for Scripture is plain and your engagement with it deep and solid; you really convey to us that the text matters, that it is life-giving and lifesaving to you and to us. Even better, you chose a “greatest hits” text (one that we’ve heard many times before), and your exegetical work made it new and fresh and surprising. Your theological insights have feet-on-the-ground ethical significance. You’re a good storyteller: you condensed a complex and lengthy story (Exodus 1 and 2, leading up to the third chapter) with a sure hand, and kept the liveliness of the story. You understand the gift we need to hear in this Exodus text, and you understand how to offer it.