Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Morning Worship, August 31, 2025Sermon: Doing the Right ThingAccompanying Scripture: Luke 14:1,7-14 Doing the Right Thing Luke 14:1, 7-14 I usually don’t give TV ads much notice. The other night was different. I was curiousabout an ad for debt consolidation. Most of America’s debt is tied to credit cards. Iadmit that in my younger years, I got caught up in the mystical experience of payingwith plastic and the onerous task of paying it off.As many of…

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Morning Worship, August 17, 2025Sermon: Baptism By FireAccompanying Scripture: Luke 12 : 49-56

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Morning Worship, August 3, 2025Sermon: When is Enough Enough?Accompanying Scripture: Luke 12 : 13-21 When is Enough, Enough? Luke12:13-21 Imagine a large pie with small slices of various sizes. Each person gets a slice of the pie, and some get more than others. In fact, the larger the slices for some, the more likely it is thatothers will have nothing. This is the economy of the Roman Empire in the first century. There was a finite…