THE OVERLOOK Carlos E. Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16; Luke 16:19-31   “But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received                     your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things;                        but now he is comforted here, and you are in […]

TO HEAL THE SIN-SICK SOUL Carlos E. Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church September 22, 2013; 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Jeremiah 8:18-9:1; 1 John 1:4-2:2   “Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?                Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?” Jeremiah 8:22   […]

GOD’S MATH Carlos E. Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church September 15, 2013; 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Luke 15:1-10   “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave          the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost […]

MAKING DREAMERS Carlos E. Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church September 8, 2013, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C — Non-Lectionary sermon Genesis 37:17b-27; Acts 2:14-21   “They said to one  another, ‘Here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him        and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say […]

“TABLE MANNERS” Carlos E. Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Psalm 81:1, 10-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14   “But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place…” Luke 14:10a   Chances are, every one of you — except for the very youngest — has been to […]