Archive for June 2025
Where Is Your Faith? by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Luke 8:22-25, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, June 22, 2025.
I love this passage of Scripture. I’m deeply grateful for Luke to include it in his Gospel. He’s the only one who presents this story in this way. There are similar accounts in the other Gospels. It might even be the same story, but Luke is the only one that nuances it this way. I…
Read MorePresent and Favorable by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Matthew 5:13-16, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, June 15, 2025.
None of the lectionary passages really do fit Father’s Day, in my opinion, which is fine, so I went off-script and picked the passage you just heard, where Jesus says to his disciples, and says to us, “You are the salt of the earth. This is what you are. You are the light of the world.…
Read MoreOn the Road by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, June 1, 2025, at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Mark 10: 46-52
On the road. No, I’m not going to sing Willie Nelson. I’m never going to beat Willie. On the road. I love this story. Now I’m going to tell you why. There’s more than one reason. Let’s begin with that concept of road. The Greek word is “hodos,” it’s pronounced HO-dose. And it is a critically important part of the…
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