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  • More Like the Father

    Luke 15: 11-32 Offered to the United Presbyterian Church of Alpha, NJ on November 1, 2026 Mel Prestamo, Ruling Elder, PCUSA OK. So last week, we talked about the wandering lost Sheep and the Lost Coin. And then very briefly, I introduced the third parable in Luke 15 – that of the Prodigal or as…

  • HOW WE GET LOST: Luke 15: 1-13

    Offered to the United Presbyterian Church of Alpha, NJ October 25, 2026, Mel Prestamo [Ruling Elder, PCUSA] These three parables from Luke 15 can be called the greatest story ever told within the Greatest Story ever told. The Bible Scholar William Barclay has referred to Luke 15 as “the Gospel within the Gospel.” The three…

  • More Like The Father

    Luke 15 / offered to the First Presbyterian Church of Succasunna, NJ Mel Prestamo, Elder, PCUSA Recently, I have been reading a book by Thomas Cahill [I apologize at this posting, I have lost the title of the book – but the credit for the thought belongs to Cahill]. In it he makes a comment…