THEY LAUGHED AT JESUS, TOO Carl Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church June 28, 2015; 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Psalm 30; Mark 5:21-43 “When [Jesus] had entered, he said to them, ‘Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.’ And they laughed at him.” Mark 5:39-40a […]

THE OVERCOMERS Carl Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church June 21, 2015; 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B 1 Samuel 17:4-9, 32-49; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 “David said, ‘The Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine.’” 2 […]

YOU CAN RUN, BUT… Carl Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church June 7, 2015, 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Genesis 3:8-15; 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” Genesis 3:11b What does God sound like? The whoosh of the wind? A deep, booming voice? […]

“CLEAR THE BENCH” Carl Wilton Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church May 10, 2015, Trinity Sunday, Year B Isaiah 6:1-8; John 3:1-17 “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’” Isaiah 6:8 Without a doubt, there’s one book […]