June 28, 2026  Fifth Sunday after PentecostLadue Chapel Presbyterian ChurchExodus 17:1-7“The Long Way Around”Douglas T. King  Moses named the place Massah and Meribah which means quarrel and test.  I have often thought that Massah and Meribah would be good names for twin teenagers.  And this story in Exodus has all of the pathos of the tug-of-war that occurs between teenagers and parents.  We all ...

I know that Doug and many other preachers do not follow the lectionary. But for me, especially when I was preaching every Sunday, I found the lectionary a useful discipline. And relevant for today, following the lectionary forces you to deal with ......

Years ago my friend Dean Thompson told me the story of his visit with a parishioner of his, a professor from Cal Tech.  The man in the hospital was dying of AIDS.  He asked Dean to rehearse his faith for him.  Dean, in his weighty voice, told the man of the promises we......

There is a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal, story among preachers that crystallizes the way in which we sometimes misuse scripture in our preaching.  It is about a preacher who reads a text about Paul traveling on a ship and then the preacher proceeds to preach on the great “shi......

I appreciated Doug’s comments about Trinity in this week’s Chapel Bell. And while I don’t want to focus on the theological concept today, I do want us to keep in mind one aspect of Trinity – that of the community illustrated within the Godhead.I have had many conversations over the past......