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  • Jesus On The Edge

    Luke 17: 11-19 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder, PCUSA Offered to the Wharton Hungarian Church on October 9, 2022. Recently as we have been going through the Gospel of Luke, as we follow along the Lectionary for this year, we have been treated to some of Jesus’ most well know parables and stories. However, today’s text…

  • The Law Upon Our Hearts

    Luke 14: 1, 7-14 / Psalm 112 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder, PCUSA Offered to the Wharton Hungarian Church, Wharton, NJ on June 19, 2022 I have a concern about being in fear of the Lord. Psalm 111 tells us that Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. In other words, I am uncomfortable…

  • Lazarus and the Rich Man

    Luke 16: 19-31 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder, PCUSA Offered to the Wharton Hungarian Church of Wharton, NJ on September 25, 2022 I want to start my message today by commenting that Luke’s retelling of Jesus’ parables is unique in its richness. We have here today the parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus. This parable…

  • What can we learn from the Unscrupulous Steward?

    Luke 16: 1-13 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder, PCUSA Offered to the First Presbyterian Church of Franklin, NJ on September 9, 2022 This is a difficult parable to understand. I think more than just a few of us scratch our heads and wonder, “What is Jesus telling us here? What does he mean by the “children…

  • How Should We Do This Welcoming Thing?

    Genesis 18: 1-8 / Luke 10: 38-42 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder, PCUSA Offered to the First Church of Hanover, NJ on July 17, 2022 The two passages from the Old and New Testaments this morning make a curious juxtaposition of ways of being “Welcoming”. We see Abraham in this story from Genesis observes three travelers…

  • Go and Do Likewise

    Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder PCUSA Offered to the Community Presbyterian Church of Chester, NJ on July 10, 2022 The last time I visited with you was back in February of this year and the lectionary that Sunday was from Luke 6 about the Golden Rule – “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate…

  • Luke 15

    This is a two-part sermon series offered to the Wharton Hungarian Church of Wharton, NJ in June of 2022 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder PCUSA Part 1: Finding the Lost The Bible is referred to as the greatest story ever told. These three parables of Luke 15 can be called the greatest story within the greatest…

  • Who Will listen if Someone Is Raised from the Dead?

    Luke 16: 19-31 Offered by Elder Mel Prestamo PCUSA to the congregation of the Wharton United Community Congregation Today’s lectionary begins with another of Jesus’ many parables which in one way or another deal with affluence and wealth. This series of parables begins in Luke 12 with a person calling out to Jesus from the…

  • Sending Workers into the Harvest

    Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20 Mel Prestamo, Elder PCUSA In this passage in Luke this morning, we see Jesus considering the task he has at hand. Jesus is looking ahead at the many opportunities and possibilities that lie before him in his ministry. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” At the same time,…