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! “Friends, move up higher!”Twelfth…
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…
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…
