Posts with the category “sermons”

Anybody worried about what I am going to do with this text?  I know, me too  It feels like only Anne Peacock could do something productive with all this endless talk of grain.  But let’s see how we do...  Read More

There is a topic I can make fifty arguments for and fifty arguments against each and every day.  Depending on the day and which way the wind blows I can land on one side or the other.  So, what is thi...  Read More

I wasn’t there, but I heard that Mark Davis made quite the “to do” about his high school graduation. He ascended the stairs to the stage in the gym. He received his diploma, he shook hands with the pr...  Read More

I have always loved the comic “Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson.  For those of you unfamiliar with it, it tells the story of a remarkably precocious, spiky-haired six-year-old boy named Calvin and...  Read More

Palm/Passion Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week and the sign that the season of Lent is ending. As we end one season, another begins and in a week’s time we will be in the season of Eastertide – ...  Read More

Years ago, I saw a play entitled, “When I Come to Die.”  It told the story of a man named Damon on death row who is given what should be a lethal injection but lives.  Far from being elated when he di...  Read More

In her dark, ironic, and compelling short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Conner tells of a grandmother who is prideful, superficial, self-important, and judgmental on her best days.  ...  Read More

June 8, 2025  The Day of PentecostLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchActs 2:1-18“The Trinity: Breaking Down Barriers”Douglas T. King“If a lion could talk, we should not be able to understand him.”  These...  Read More

June 1, 2025  Seventh Sunday of EasterLadue Chapel Presbyterian Church“The Trinity: Inviting Intimacy”Douglas T. KingBack in the day, before security concerns precluded it, the gates at airport termin...  Read More