Weak Days | Donovan Drake Preaching | Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost | 09.13.26

---

Are You Ready For Sunday…

Living out the word

Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions. – Romans 14:1

• When have you experienced the best “welcome”? 
• When have you worked to “welcome”? 
• How can you practice a more inclusive and intentional welcome? (“taste and see”) 

---

Talking the Text Podcast

Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, September 13, 2026 | Romans 14:1-12 | with Donovan Drake, Guy D. Griffith, Ashley Higgins, and Sarah Bird Kneff.

Talking the Text: your weekly resource for deeper insights into the Sunday scripture. Gain a richer understanding of the pastors’ reflections and prepare your heart and mind for worship with this valuable tool. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to enhance your spiritual journey every week!

---

Worship Bulletin & Transcript

The entire sermon transcript will be available the week following the sermon.

---

Worship Services

8:30 & 11 a.m. Recorded Services

The full worship service recordings will be posted here after each service.

---

Sermon Podcast

The sermon podcast will be posted here after the worship services.

---

Scripture

Romans 14:1-12

14:1 Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.

14:2 Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.

14:3 Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat, for God has welcomed them.

14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on slaves of another? It is before their own lord that they stand or fall. And they will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

14:5 Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike. Let all be fully convinced in their own minds.

14:6 Those who observe the day, observe it for the Lord. Also those who eat, eat for the Lord, since they give thanks to God; while those who abstain, abstain for the Lord and give thanks to God.

14:7 For we do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves.

14:8 If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

14:9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

14:10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

14:11 For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."

14:12 So then, each one of us will be held accountable to God.