Sermons from September 2025
Leviathan, a Creature Without Fear
Leviathan is not a word you hear every day. Or maybe not every week, or month, or maybe we’ve not heard of Leviathan since we were back in high school reading Moby Dick. Leviathan is almost certainly a large mythical sea creature. If we think about large mythical sea creatures at all we likely think of them as large sea monsters who wreak havoc, like Jaws or megalodons or giant squids or godzillas. But that’s giving them a bad press. …
Young Folks as Role Models for Discipleship
Luke 14:25-33 Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus; and he turned and said to them, “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to…
The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Luke 14:1, 7-14 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and…