Rev. Liz Goodman, Lenox & Monterey UCC: Recent Episodes
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Monterey Church: Elizabeth Goodman, produces the weekly preaching of Rev. Elizabeth Goodman, pastor of the Monterey United Church of Christ (UCC). Mindful of the challenges of today, Rev. Goodman approaches scripture with wisdom and wonder in the hope of hearing the word of God who still speaks and in the faith that it will, as ever, enlighten our path and guide our steps from life to life.
All who wander are not lost--but some are, or so it seems. Here's how to be found in your wandering.
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Who's feasting at the table with you in glory?
Think bigger.
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Tabitha spent her time making tunics for widows, not the sort of thing that will make you great in the eyes of the world. But often a life that touches deeply a few lives amounts to something greater still.
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This one puzzles over the cross, which is itself the puzzle of human existence and the Christian faith.
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We have a standard of measuring those who would rule us, a ruler beyond the ruler. The ones these days aren't measuring up.
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It could be that to claim citizenship in the Kingdom of God we put at risk out citizenship in the kingdoms of this world.
Rest assured, this is to trade up.
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With heroes like the ones our popular culture has imagned, who needs villains?
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You have heard it said the gospel isn't political, is but a personal matter. But I say unto you, can't it be both?
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The Transfiguraton is a vision of the end broken into time, enered into the middle that might encourage is our living--and Lord knows we need encouragement, and moreover courage, these days.
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Reasons for fretting are rife. Reasons for faith?
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The Holy Spirit is with the people.
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Take a minunte. Consider yourself. Then do the works of love.
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Good news to the poor? Check.
Recovery of sight to the blind? Check.
Day of vengeance for our God? Not so much.
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This is a talk I prepared for a 2024 honoring of MLK Day, which I reworked for a gathering in 2025.
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Those empty cisterns need to be filled.
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Fire isn't settled as to its meaning in scripture. So be not afraid.
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Some get, some don't. Is that okay with you?
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Christmas harks us to a gauzy past. It should rather poress us into an imperitive future.
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And all flesh shall see it together!
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Melodious Accord came to Church on the Hill to sing in Advent.
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"What is truth?" Pilate asks, not recognizing that truth is there in the room with him.
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Jesus' counsel was clear: resist, don't revolt. Time for rebuilding for the sake of better justice is coming.
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The poor widow wasn't to be praised. Rather, the Tample was to be shamed. We're not morally upright when we cooperate with power structures that exploit. Jesus meant something else altogether.
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We will be forgotten. We are remembered.
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This last encounter of Jesus' ministry wastes no time. Bartimeaus is ready to go.
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You say you want a revolution? Well, we all want to change the world. But is revolution our best option?
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Possessing instread of allowing yourself to be possessed: you might lack this one thing too.
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This one goes out to Thomas Hobbes, Mark Lilla, Jeffery Goldberg, and my next door neighbor from long ago whose name I can't remember but whose question to me I do.
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You catch more flies with honey than vwith vinegar. So why does Jesus front with vinegar?
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Can indeed the Lord dwell on earth?
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Jesus can take it. He seems actually to really want to take it.
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People love their gardens--and some are even willing to work for them. Others just want a hammock to swing in.
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An ironic podcast, offered in the hope that in its mechanical reproduction it doesn't too much decay.
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John understands the power of the people to be the source of temptation, doing the devil's work, as it were.
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Take your rest. God's purpose is being accomplished.
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When your power to act is frustrated by liomitation, consider if God's love rather than some terrible offense.
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It's happening. Do you not perceive it? Do you not want to join in on it?
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We're back in Ordinary Time, the steady of walk of faith through the many weeks of the season after Pentecost. With this, we take a breather following many litugical high points. Just in time for some summer rest.
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Trinity Sunday: the annual reminder that this isn't a doctine, it's a dynamic.
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Who loses when we bring such calous disregard to our institutions?
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For those who are cut off or isolatyed or cast out of all generation, the Church is a body for new possiblity.
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Taking up the cross isn't to hammer others with it but to excercise a willingness to be the one hanging from it.
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Requesting to see the wounds isn't doubt, and isn't morbiod fascination. It's Thomas leading us away from his own nationalism into real faith.
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Happy Easter!
Now, let's get going.
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The day is surely coming, but until it's here this will do.
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The church gathers for what may be, and by this we give occasion for it to be. Impossible love! Imperitive love.
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Time offers a different sort of temple in which the church can gather. It requires a lot less maintanance.
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Who requires the suffering of Christ? We've often gotten that important quesiton wrong.
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Maybe it's time to changeg our minds about God, that God isn't about ruin but about repair.
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Sometimes what's shiny objects to our refusal to allow it to be more than that.
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We all want to change the world. The question is what end we'd hope such change will bring about.
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We're not usually this sick, but sometimes we do really need strong mediine.
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Your attention is your most precious resource. Pay it to something worthy.
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The call is coming from inside the house--or not.
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This is a special edition of the podcast, a talk I will give at a concert in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. near his birthday..
The Magi should frighten us--for how do they know what they know, and how do we know what this new revelation makes known and how do we know we can trust it? When orthodoxy falls by the wayside, how do you find a new--and true--way?
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Here's a homily to follow the gospel readings of the nativity.
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The Virgin Birth: maybe the queston shouldn't be whether it's true but should be, "If it's true, what does it mean?"
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Advent is so short; Advent is so long!
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Repentance might sound scary. It's so much more than that.
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Advent begins adventure. And there's no going back.
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The end of the church year brings us to what endures: love.
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The question is whether we're going for with the mission or burying it for safe keeping.
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Would you take a course in the art of following.
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God's sovereinty is one more scanalandous claim of the Christian faith. History provides so many reasons to think otherwise.
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Here's a sermon about true signs as opposed to graven images.
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Church as sanctuary. Is this purpose enough to save us?
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Will you do what you say you won't, or will you refuse but come around eventually?
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Fairness or grace: which do you want? Becasue you can't have both.,
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The forgiven must forgive.
It could have been a much shorter sermon that it is.
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How to be community with out butting in. That's a tough one.
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God begs us to pay our attention to what's worthy of it.
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When religious people are short on faith.
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God plays in the world as sufficiency. Enough can be a blessing.
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Following Jesus won't necessarily make your life easier or your relationships better. Some social structures would rather you compromise the truth than live into it.
You've been warned.
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Sarah laughed, gave birth to Laughter, making us sons and daughters of laughter. So laugh it up, Fuzzball. Let your lung be filled with God.
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As we embark into Ordinary Time, we'll be spending it together, which is itself the point.
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Authority is the power to name what's real.
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Prepared for surprise: the church is full of contradictions.
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The ten-day wait between Jesus ascending and the Holy Spirit: we endure it once again.
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The church isn't abut heroics, it's about creating communities where heroics are less in demand.
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Jesus is going, but he is also staying.
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The gospel has embodied imperitives.
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Hope comes calling, so get ready to move.
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Is it possible Jesus got attached to this life?
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Jesus has come to complete the creation as it is not yet finished. It's going well, of course. But it could be better.
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God can be not a lot to go on it, but enough.
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God's people are always called out of the familair. And God's people are also always out there.
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Lent is a good time to put it all back together, these shards of knowledge and suspicion, into a whole renewed wisdom.
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It's Transfiguration Sunday, and maybe we're ready.
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The church: we're supposed to be doing something, right?
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You get what you get, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get upset.
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When you don't know what you think you should know, it's hard to learn what you need to know.
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You can't always get what you want. But with Jesus as beloved, we get what we need.
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Christmas has become a monster of a season, but what it comes down to is almost embarrasingly basic.
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Jesus is painfully, disappointingly local in his saving work. And the woirld's need is massive, endless. How will this possibly do?
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John helps us anticipate Jesus. But he didn't get everything about the one for whom we wait quite right.
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Advent present us with the challenge of hope--a full recogntion of what's dreadful about the world while also fully assured that God is coming, while also here, to restore, renew, and reign in love.
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We've reached the end of the church year, Christ the King Sunday, a tricky feast day.
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Jesus warns that the world won't go easy on us. Isaiah envisions a new reality that will have worked all that out. Ours is to persevere toward this point.
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Prayer is a moemnt alone with your God, and sometimes that's as hard a things as there is.
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Jacob made progress, leaving Esau behind. Are we okay with that?
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God's presence shows up in places least expected and places where we perhaps we least want to be.
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Where there is, turns out, either nothing or everything.
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Look for hopeless causes for the right of redemption might be yours.
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The church has squandered our wealth. What now to do?
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Freedom is a terrible bruned. No wonder so many seek a cage.
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The old ship of Zion moves slowly, but there's room for everyone.
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Keeping the sabbath is as much about liberation as it is about rest.
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Jesus is tough to match moods with in August. Let's see if we can try,.
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A moment arrives, and all your readying must be done. Now you just receive.
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Teach us to pray, the disciples said. Not how, or why, what to pray. Instead simply, Teach us to pray.
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Be the Good Samaritan. Be the man who set out. There will come opporutnities for you be one or the other, and both make for good.
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...and the what is the why. Sharing Jesus' love isn't a means to an end, it's the manifestation of the end. You don't get a rpize for doing it, it is itself the prize. Love. Love in action.
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The end is decided but how you get there is another question.
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The church is more weed than wheat, as if right. Monterey Church, UCC
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Not all who wander are lost. But some are.
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Peter is pulling a thread that could unravel the whole garment...
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You aren't that. So listen in peace and reassurance.
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If nothing else, respond: words to live by.
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Palm Sunday is supposed to be a plesant celebration. I'm sorry to say, however...
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Embarrassing, intimate, smelling is indiscrimate--but also exclusive. With its insistence on the body, smelling demands, "You had to be there."
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I wonder where you are in this familiar story.
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Time to get serious. No more Airbnb for us. Time to plant roots and bear fruit.
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Bread and circus, please! But we don't live by bread alone.
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Jesus and the twelve were hardly the gods they were enacting to be--and this is very much the point.
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A close encounter with the holy can really leave us feeling ugly. Best to avoid it then?
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It would come to be called the "fullness of time." More coloquially, it's the 1st century AD. So, why now for God to act so radically in Christ? What made it the right time? Monterey Church, UCC
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It might be a tough thing to manage these days, but moments of joy will find us, enlighten us. Look for these moments and treasure them in your hearts.
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The magi were expecting probably something quite different...?
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The 2nd Sunday after Christmas is maybe the worst Sunday to find ourselves back online for worship. But here we are...
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Christmas isn't a holiday for nostalgia, it's a holiday to press us more deeply into today and the future that how live now will bring.
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John was great at being a herald. He fell short of being the messiah.
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The coming of the son of man coincides with a lot of trouble. So, is it good news that we've got a lot of trouble these days?
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The last Sunday of the church year is a good time to wonder whether we're up for another trip around the calendar.
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Numbers are down in congregations across the county, maybe across the country. Endurance is the name of the game for the faithful. So, who's with me?
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The widow might have been happy to give her last penny to the Temple. Jesus wasn't happy for her.
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Jesus urges us to be as children. So what's stopping us from doing that?
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Revolution? Resignation? Some mysterious third way?
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Hell is other people--or maybe that's the kingdom of heaven.
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Pay attention to the things that make your stumble on your way to God, and the things that help you get close.
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The church isn't designed for efficiency. That said, there's no better time for manifesting the reign of God than now.
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Power is meant to serve the good.
Beware when power is put to serving power.
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Repentance, which is a change of mind, comes with repetition.
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The moment when Jesus learned he was Christ for the world is an ugly one. Brace yourself for a moment when Jesus was't "the good guy."
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Empires rise and fall, but the word of the Lord speaks as ever.
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Jesus invites us to bring our worst--and our worst is pretty bad.
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Remember that old summer camp song, "They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love (by our Love)"? Turns out that was pretty good stuff.
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In this age of kitsch, where can we can find what's true, authentic, bearing an aura as almost halo?
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In Jesus we meet someone worthy of our essential followership.
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It is in any vent afinal word on the subject.
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Langston Hughes got it right. Nearly a century ago, he knew America is aim and aspiration. He was right: it was then, and is still. America dies when our aspiration to be America dies.
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To have and to hold: the church asks a lot.
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Course correction: we've gotten God wrong.
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What if God really is at work in all things for good?
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As we set off into ordinary time, we've got quite a challenge to live out.
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Pentecost, the event, comes after a protracted period of waiting for apostles. Sound familiar?
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This is a weird Sunday for celebrating. On the other hand, it might really speak to our moment.
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With thanks to Nappy Roots' for their song, Good Day.
The church is a humanizing project.
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When you lay down your life for your friends, you're dangerous to the status quo, but you're close to the kingdom of God.
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Thanks to Nahkane's "New Brighton" for inspiring the mantra that is the title of this sermon.
When astonishing truth claims is all you've got--that and a Resurrecting God.
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Are we hoping God will turn back time, or are we good with God redeeming time?
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Shout out to The Call for use of their song, "I Still Believe."
Resurrection Day! Or might we prefer Insurrection? There's a lot these days to rise up against...
Alleluia!
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Palm Sunday reminds us of the two choices we grace, and encourages us to take the way of Jesus.
Thanks to Thievery Corporation for their terrific song Forgotten People.
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Considering last week's Godly Play story in the light of this week's terrible events.
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What the ancient way of sanctifying time might mean for us in the age of Zoom worship.
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The rainbow signals a shift, if not in God then at least our perception of God. Jesus' coming confirms it.
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This features Guster's great song Two At a Time.
Here we take a big breath before diving into the depths of Lent.
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This episode features Regina Spektor's great song "Laughing With."
Ours isn't to fight. It's to wirthstand. We're not amidst a battle. We're amidst an arrival and an occupation of good and true.
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Storming the Capitol is a bad idea. Can we say that? Can we say there are bad ideas?
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Words describe and create, so be let's be careful with them--careful with what you say, careful about to whom you listen.
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