Summer Worship at Calvary

Peace and Perseverance in Poetry: A Time and A Place 

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2025 AT 10AM


Summer Sermon Series:
Peace and Perseverance in Poetry

This four-week summer series highlights three biblical books—Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. These texts are not narratives; they are poetry, and like all poetry, they communicate in language aimed as much at the heart as at the head. As we ponder these ancient texts, may we find the peace and the perseverance to live a life of faith and love.


Wisdom, the Master Builder

Through ancient rhythms of growing and dying, giving and receiving, losing and saving, holding and letting go, God created a pattern and a season for the world. Times for work and times for rest were included in that first creation story. We live, however, in a time when the lines between work and play, busy and rest have become increasingly blurred. How can we find a time and a place for everything required of us?

Our next Worship Service on Sunday, August 17:
"A Time and A Place"

:
:
:
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

Thank you for joining us for Worship! 

10am Sunday Worship Livestream

SUBSCRIBE   Spotify Podcast      Apple Podcast

Please enjoy last week's service,
next week's service (08.17) will be uploaded Sunday morning before 10am.

Sunday, August 17 at 10am

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11; 3:1-17


The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,

  vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

What do people gain from all the toil

  at which they toil under the sun?

A generation goes, and a generation comes,

  but the earth remains for ever.

The sun rises and the sun goes down,

  and hurries to the place where it rises.

The wind blows to the south,

  and goes round to the north;

round and round goes the wind,

  and on its circuits the wind returns.

All streams run to the sea,

  but the sea is not full;

to the place where the streams flow,

  there they continue to flow.

All things are wearisome;

  more than one can express;

the eye is not satisfied with seeing,

  or the ear filled with hearing.

What has been is what will be,

  and what has been done is what will be done;

  there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said,

  ‘See, this is new’?

It has already been,

  in the ages before us.

The people of long ago are not remembered,

  nor will there be any remembrance

of people yet to come

  by those who come after them.


For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

a time to tear, and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace.


What gain have the workers from their toil? I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.

Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

Previous Sermons

A bunch of geese in the sky flying in formation, text reads
By Rev. Marci Glass August 10, 2025
Our scripture passage from the Book of Proverbs talks about the place of Wisdom in God's creation, and in God's creating. Wisdom is often a gift we receive later in life, and can feel somber to us, because of how long it took us to learn her lessons. But Wisdom is a joyful character in scripture, delighting in the worl
A beautiful sky that has the text
August 3, 2025
God's word continues to guide and instruct us still today. The Proverbs talk about wisdom and its importance. How can we be wise and faithful people of God?
Rainbow stained glass that says
By Rev. Victor Floyd July 27, 2025
In its final chapters, Revelation gives us a vision of a world healed, restored, and bursting with light. The New Jerusalem is not as an escape plan but a divine promise for this world—where there are no temples of exclusion, no gates shut to the outsider, and no more night for the weary. God’s justice includes rivers
Show More

Join us for Bible Study

Join us for Men's Bible Study. Click to email David Barnes for Zoom info

Music

Add Your Voice


Calvary enjoys a long and treasured legacy as a center for great music in San Francisco. Through weekly liturgies, regular concerts featuring our choir and orchestra and guest musicians, and as an essential venue for the many arts organizations who perform in our historic sanctuary, that rich tradition is vibrantly alive today. Our weekly worship services feature our 40-voice Chancel Choir, our 6,155 pipe organ and Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano, professional soloists and other fine guest musicians, children and youth, handbells, and a range of exceptional music you likely won’t encounter in many other places of worship.

Learn More About Our Music Ministry

Enjoy our 2024 Choir Tour of Europe



A group of choir members singing with the music in the pews of the Chapel

More Faith Services at Calvary