“The battles the Greek heroes had to fight were against their enemies.  The battles their Jewish counterparts had to fight were against themselves: their fears, their hesitations, their sense of unwor...  Read More

I am a less than enthusiastic negotiator. Before I went to seminary I spent some time working with Central American refugees in Mexico.  There were many challenges but the hardest one for me was engag...  Read More

No less an authority than The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette as Revised and Expanded by Letitia Baldridge, provides one hundred and twenty seven pages of instruction regarding weddings and ...  Read More

January 12, 2025 Baptism of the Lord  Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church Isaiah 43:1-7Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 “Our Redemption Story” Melissa K. Smith Ebenezer Scrooge has one of the best redemption arcs in...  Read More

December 24, 2024  Christmas EveLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchLuke 2:1-20“An Antidote to Pantophobia”Douglas T. KingFor most of us in this room that melody delivers a vibrant memory of the Charlie B...  Read More

December 22, 2024  Fourth Sunday of AdventLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchLuke 1:26-38“Two Morphemes to Change the World”Douglas T. King Over the years there have been some famous newspaper headlines ...  Read More

December 1, 2024 First Sunday of Advent Ladue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchJohn 1:1-142 Corinthians 5:16-21“Waiting Together”Melissa K. Smith Advent means “to come” – we know and celebrate it as the cele...  Read More

November 24, 2024  Christ the King/Commitment SundayLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchLuke 4:1-13 and Luke 23:32-43“A Powerful Reversal”Douglas T. King “Every tree was in full flower.  Every fruit was r...  Read More

November 17, 2024 Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Ladue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchLuke 1:46-551 Samuel 2:1-10“Rooted in the Faithfulness of God”Melissa K. Smith I don’t like platitudes. Their opti...  Read More

November 10th 2024  Twenty-Fifth Sunday After PentecostLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchPsalm 20 and Psalm 91:1-6“A Resource Worth Cultivating”Douglas T. King We have a dwindling resource in this count...  Read More

November 3rd 2024  All Saints’ SundayLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchExodus 17:1-7 and Revelation 21:1-4“Party Invitations for Everyone”Douglas T. King There is an old Jewish folktale that I am going ...  Read More

October 27, 2024 Reformation Sunday Ladue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchPsalm 34:1-8Mark 10:46-52“Reformed and Always Reforming by the Word of God”Melissa K. Smith 507 years ago, the Church changed foreve...  Read More