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- 20th Sunday after Pentecost – October 26, 2025 - Luke 18:9-14 Has anyone ever said you look like someone else…or that someone else looks like you? How does this make you feel? Be thankful you are not Kayla Nicole… A media personality and the ex-girlfriend of NFL star Travis Kelce. How would you like to be compared to Taylor Swift? Probably not so much…and …
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- 19th Sunday after Pentecost – October 19, 2025 - Luke 18:1-8 I don’t have a prayer! There’s no way I’m ever going to… Get a date with her/him. Get on the varsity team. Get a loan for that house…or get a loan to start my small business. Get into the college I prefer. Win this lawsuit. Avoid this penalty. Get justice. We get the …
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- 18th Sunday after Pentecost – October 12, 2025 - Luke 17:11-19 Like every other kid who received a 10-dollar bill or a shirt for their birthday… I was expected to send a thank you note to Grandma. But it never felt like a natural outpouring of my gratitude. It felt like an obligation…an obligation I would gladly give $10 to get out of. So …
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- 17th Sunday after Pentecost: October 5, 2025 - Luke 17:5-10 When I was a little boy…I was given a small necklace…in Sunday school. It was a Christian necklace…but it held…not a little gold cross or a silver Jesus fish Ichthus symbol…No. Hanging from this gold chain was a small…clear…plastic orb… That contained within it a tiny round seed. OK…You see where this is …
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- 16th Sunday after Pentecost – September 28, 2025 - Luke 16:19-31 This morning…Luke introduces two characters. Two really different guys. One is rich…well-dressed…well-fed…secure in a gated home. Interesting…he’s never given a name. He is defined only by his wealth and possessions. The other…lays outside of the gate. His name is Lazarus. (Not Mary and Martha’s brother…not that Lazarus). We do not know why …
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- 15th Sunday after Pentecost – September 21, 2025 - Luke 16:1-13 Jesus tells this little parable about a dishonest manager who…upon hearing that his boss was going to fire him… Goes to all his boss’s debtors and gives them a break on their debts. He forgives them much of what they owe. You know…so he could gain friends in the business before he’s cut …
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- 14th Sunday after Pentecost – September 14, 2025 - Luke 15:1-10 Forty-years later…in an essay in The Boston Globe…Kim Costigan recently wrote of the days she spent with her friend Kathy and her family. I felt lucky…part of something special. There was a type of freedom and little worry about teenage mischief. The daily presence of parents and dinner on the table. It gave …
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- 13th Sunday after Pentecost – September 7, 2025 - Luke 14:25-33 Jesus knew how to gather a crowd. The Gospel of Luke portrays him as a magnetic presence. Large groups of people were drawn to his teaching. No doubt some scratched their heads when they heard one of his parables…and then laughed out loud when they got the point. People with physical and emotional …
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- 12th Sunday after Pentecost – August 31, 2025 - Luke 14:1, 7-14 Seating charts are the Rubik’s Cube of event planning. Few tasks are more comically daunting…or more fraught with peril… Then deciding who sits next to whom at a wedding reception… It’s a delicate dance of diplomacy…requiring the wisdom of Solomon…the creativity of Picasso and…the conflict-resolution skills of a hostage negotiator. A wedding …
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- 11th Sunday after Pentecost – August 24, 2025 - Luke 13:10-17 Remember the Blue Laws? Some fifty or more years ago in the United States? No matter where you went on Sundays…most everything was closed. The doors of sanctuaries were open and it was expected everyone who was anyone had their entire family with them in a pew. Laws throughout the United States banned …
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