Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance, so she ran off to Simon Peter and the […]
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A sermon preached at the Sunday worship service at Church in the Highlands in White Plains, NY, on November 14, 2021. Scripture readings: Daniel 12: 1-3 Mark 13: 1-8 I wonder if any among you, if asked to name your favorite Bible verse, would point […]
The prayer that Jesus instructs his followers to pray is a communal prayer, asking not for God to fill my needs, but for the needs of all in the community to be filled. Not just for God to forgive my sins, but for an economy of mercy to prevail in all our dealings with one another. In short, it is a prayer that requires something those who pray it.
…a lot of us walk around with the first two bars of a symphony in our heads, imagining that someday, when we have a better idea of what comes next, we’ll start to play. Some of the most transformative moments in my life happened when a person or incident gave me the strength or abandonment to haul off and play to the end of that second bar and see what came next.
It’s not that I don’t think staying current on the news is important, [but]…in common with many women and men out there, I’ve been feeling as though current events in politics are directly related to painful and shameful parts of my personal history, events I would rather not be invited to relive
![God Touches Jeremiah's Mouth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55596 [retrieved July 30, 2016]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterBibleJeremiah(cover).GIF.](https://i0.wp.com/thequestionsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/winchesterbiblejeremiahcov-large.jpg?resize=510%2C510&ssl=1)
This sermon was originally preached at Mission Hills UCC, January 31, 2016 Scripture readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30 I love listening to stories of how people first heard their call, first understood what their life’s vocation would be. For most of us, I think, it’s less of […]