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Dangerous Feasts… Rev. Dee Ledger, October 15, 2017
Think for a minute about the last time that you hosted a party at your house. Maybe it was just a small gathering of friends, or perhaps it was a large shin-dig, a celebration of some special event in your family, or an occasion that marked a birthday, an anniversary, a retirement, or a promotion. … [Read More]
Raising our Lament…Rev. Dee Ledger, October 8th, 2017
There are times when God and I are not on speaking terms. At these times, we have an understanding, God and I. When I see a week unfold like this past week, I will not speak too quickly of God’s loving heart or God’s compassion for this world. I can’t. It is too soon for… [Read More]
Changed Minds, Changed Lives…Rev. Dee Ledger, October 1, 2017
Several years ago, I attended an ordination in which a very unusual event happened. The ordinand, a young man being officially ordained into Christian ministry, had a pie gently thrown into his face. At the time, I remember thinking that the one doing the pie throwing had performed an audacious and somewhat foolish act. At… [Read More]
An Angel at Our Back; Rev. Dee Ledger, September 17, 2017
When working on a dementia unit, I learned through the nursing staff and others, how reassuring it can be to remind patients of their own history, their own past. When dementia and other diseases try to strip humans of their identity, memory photos, songs, memory-books, and stories either of happier times or of struggles overcome… [Read More]
Pain Relief for Humankind, Rev. Dee Ledger, September 10, 2017
As many of you are aware, addiction to prescription painkillers is on the rise. The same drugs that can alleviate suffering can also become the agents for suffering. The government estimates that roughly 1.9 million Americans were hooked on opiates in 2013.[1] And many of those opiates were initially prescribed by doctors for legitimate pain… [Read More]
What We Can Learn From Animals…A Message for Animal Blessing Sunday, Rev. Dee Ledger, September 3, 2017
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”(Genesis… [Read More]
There Arose a New King… Preached by Rev. Dee Ledger, August 27, 2017
We remember Joseph, don’t we? Not the Joseph who is husband to Mary, but the Old Testament Joseph, the one with the coat of many colors who was thrown in a pit by his brothers and then sold to a caravan of merchants on the way to Egypt? The slave who was framed by Potiphar’s… [Read More]
Words Matter… Rev. Dee Ledger, August 20, 2017
Fresh water… it is something that is sorely lacking in many parts of the world. Something that we sometimes, maybe often, take for granted. Water that we use for drinking, bathing, and cleaning dishes or clothes. Water that we do not have to travel very far to get; water that is available upon demand—our demand. … [Read More]
Pit Promises: A Sermon Preached on the Day of Baptism for Quinn Olivia Rost, Rev. Dee Ledger, August 13, 2017
When someone you love is in a pit, you are usually in one too. It doesn’t matter if you are the parent or the beloved spouse, or the good friend, or the teacher, or cousin twice-removed, the caregiver, or the concerned neighbor, when someone whom you dearly love is in a pit, you are too…. [Read More]
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