Sermons from August 2025
Friends, Move Up Higher! | Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Talking The Text Podcast Westminster Talking the Text for Sunday, August 31, 2025 | Proverbs 25:6-7 and Luke 14:1, 7-14 | with with Donovan Drake, Ashley Higgins, & Stephanie Boaz 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! Sunday In A Word…
Unhealthy Peace | Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Sermon Description In this moving and insightful sermon, Rev. Dr. Donovan Drake draws attention to the urgency and holiness of the present moment, opening with the word “Now!”—the first word in the day’s scripture reading. The message centers around Jesus healing a woman who had been crippled for eighteen years, highlighting how the miracle happened not in the past or future, but now, on the Sabbath. Rev. Drake challenges the congregation to think differently about Sabbath, not as a day to…
Cloud of Witnesses | Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Sermon | Cloud of Witnesses Stephanie Boaz’s sermon on Hebrews 11:29–12:2 reflects on the divisions Jesus spoke of in Luke. While our world is marked by political, social, and cultural divides, true division arises from the choice to follow Christ. The life of faith is not easy—it brings struggle as well as blessing—but we are encouraged by the “great cloud of witnesses” who have gone before us. Like runners cheered on by a stadium crowd, believers are called to run…
Now Faith | Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
This sermon by Donovan A. Drake explores faith through Hebrews 11:1: “Faith is assurance of things hoped for.” Preached during a baptism, it emphasizes raising children in faith rooted in unseen values—compassion, justice, sacrifice, and love. Drake uses a Pulitzer-winning river rescue photo as a metaphor for faith in unseen acts of courage and mercy. He describes Jason Oglesbee, the rescuer—an imperfect man who showed Christ-like love in a moment of selfless action. The sermon includes stories of ordinary people living…
Didn’t See That Coming! | Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
Click this link for archived sermons on the Podcast Player. “Didn’t see that coming!”Eighth Sunday after PentecostAugust 3, 2025Rev. Dr. Donovan Drake Click HERE for the sermon transcript! Luke 12:13-21 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against…