Views from the Valley
Pastor Mary Jo's Sermons from Charlotte Valley Presbyterian Church
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Pastor Mary Jo Koehler serves the Charlotte Valley Presbyterian Church in Davenport, New York. She has served parishes in Kentucky, New York, Iowa (she originates from Iowa), and Wyoming. The church is a small, loving congregation nestled in a valley of the foothills of the Catskill mountains. Sunday worship services are held at 10:00 a.m. Coffee hour follows worship on the second Sunday of the month.
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Sunday, May 10, 2026 — MOTHER’S DAY John 14:15-21 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows…
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Sunday, May 3, 2026 John 14:1-14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare…
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Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, …
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Scripture Text: Luke 24:13-35 Luke 24:13-35 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their…
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John 20:19-31 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were locked where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then…
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Matthew 28:1-10 1After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2And suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His appearance was…
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Scripture: The Gospel of John, Chapters 18 and 19 Our text for tonight is quite obviously a long one, involving many people coming from many places in the life of Jesus. Whenever I read it, I ponder each character’s involvement and wonder: “What were they thinking? How did they become who they were, and what…
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Matthew 21:1-11 Don’t you just love it when people come along and stir things up? Well, maybe you do and maybe you don’t. I must say that in just about every group, there’s someone who likes to stir things up. And though stirring is necessary to keep things from becoming too predictable and unchallenged, there…
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John 11:1-45 What a tender story we have here of a family of people who clearly loved, and were greatly loved, by Jesus. People who were close to the man, and as family among themselves, were also family to Jesus. We see Jesus moved and disturbed, crying real tears, in ways we have never seen…
