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“Be Opened,” given by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, September 8, 2024, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, based on Mark 7:31-3 As I mentioned earlier, this story only appears in Mark. It’s not exactly a well-known, considered pivotal passage of scripture. Nevertheless, I really love it. I love this. I’ll read it one more time, not…

“A Clean Heart,” by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, September 1, 2024, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, based on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15 So far in our service I’ve been fairly confident that what I want to happen is happening. As we’ve already touched upon, this is one of our lectionary readings, what we just heard, and my goal…

  There’s No Place Like Home, by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, August 25, 2024, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, based on Psalm 84:1-4 There’s no place like home. I think most people when they hear that probably think of Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” Click your heels three times, I think, and say, “There’s…

A Loaf of Bread, by Rev. Dr. Jay Marshall Groat, on August 18, 2024, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, based on John 6:25-34 Today, last week, the week before, in the lectionary, lots of talk about bread. Lots of talk about bread. We hear Jesus saying things like this – I am the bread of life,…