Archive for July 2025
Two Kinds of Prayer by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Luke 11:1-13 at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 27, 2025.
Some of you are just getting to know me. I mention it quite often because it’s really a big part of who I am. I’m a PK. I’m a preacher’s kid. My dad, Jack Groat, was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Marysville, Ohio for 34 years. One of the topics covered in…
Read MoreThe Power of Music by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Psalm 47 at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 20, 2025.
Musicians and friends and leaders of Urban Strings, we’ve been looking forward to this morning for a long time. I am responsible for the content of this worship service, not the music, but I’m responsible for this. You see a lot of references to music in the service this morning. We’re doing this in celebration…
Read MoreGo and Do Likewise by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Luke 10:25-37 at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 13, 2025.
This isn’t a part of my text, but it just occurred to me as I was listening to Kasie read. GOAT. You know what GOAT stands for? Greatest Of All Time. Somebody said to me, “Groat, you have to go spend a year on a deserted island. You get to take one passage of scripture…
Read MoreJoy Cometh in the Morning by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Psalm 30, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 6, 2025.
The Psalms may well have been collected and arranged in their present form as the hymn book of Israel sometime in the fourth or third century BCE. This is pretty astounding to me. I want it to be astounding to you. The Book of Psalms was arranged primarily as a hymn book, perhaps as far…
Read MoreJesus Calls Us to Follow – So What’s Your Path? by Rev. John Cramton, at Mount Vernon, Ohio based on Luke 9:51-62, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, June 29, 2025.
Let us pray together. Holy God, send your spirit to guide our time together this morning. May the words of my mind and the meditations of all our hearts be pleasing to you, Almighty God, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. Today we find ourselves in the start of what’s already a very warm summer, and we…
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