Sermons
Sermon: Proper 19 Year C 9/14/2025
Luke 15:1-10: The lost sheep and the lost coin
On Monday mornings at 10:15, a group of us gather either here, in Gleason Hall or in the Parish House at Pewee Valley Presbyterian to read essays from this book: Into the Mess & Other Jesus Stories: Reflections on the Life of Christ[1] by Debie Thomas. We read each essay toget...
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Sermon 13 Pentecost 9/7/2025
Luke 14:25-33; Jeremiah 18:1-11 Hate and Clay
Spirit of the Living God, Fall afresh on me, Spirit of the Living God, Fall afresh on me. Break me, melt me, mold me, fill me. Spirit of the Living God, Fall afresh on me.[1] How many of you stopped listening when Deacon Mary read the words: “Whoever comes to me and does not h...
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Sermon: 8/31/2025 Pentecost 12
Luke 14:1, 7-14
Jeff and I finally watched the film “Wicked” on Friday night. This is a film that I think is considered to be the first half of the origin stories of Glinda the Good Witch and The Wicked Witch of the West, the two witches many of us first met in the 1939 classic, yet terrifyin...
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Sermon: 11 Pentecost 8/24/2025
Luke 13:10-17 The healing of the crippled woman
There are some stories we hear in the Gospels that have a lot going on. Well, let’s be honest, most of them have a lot going on. But some of them bring in too many characters with too many subplots. Today’s Gospel is one of these. Part of the problem with this is we are too fa...
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Sermon: 8/3/2025 8 Pentecost
Luke 12:13-21
My parents were born during the Great Depression, when food and jobs were scarce. They lived their early lives during World War Two, when the Make it Do campaign during the rubber shortage meant rubber and other items were rationed to support the war effort. My dad’s maternal ...
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