Midweek prayer

Harsh beauty is the very definition of winter.  Holy One, so much of life is that way – a delicate balance between the painful and the profound.  None of us is promised a life of ease and still we know there are wonders to behold even amidst the most difficult...

Sermon 1/31/2021

Mark 1:21-28 “Amazed” January 31, 2021 What was the last thing that you were amazed at? For me one of the most recent moments of amazement was Thursday night’s stunning full moon.   As I drove north on 7A to pick up a few groceries and dinner in Manchester I could not...

Midweek Prayer

Here we are in the middle – the middle of a pandemic, the middle of winter, the middle of the first week of a new month, Loving God.  The status of being in the middle means we find ourselves surrounded by a range of emotions and news and commentary and...

Sermon 1/17/21

John 1:43-51 “Who’s Calling?” January 17, 2021 He described his own call as “neither dramatic nor spectacular.  It came neither by some miraculous vision nor by some blinding light experience on the road of life. Moreover, it did not come as a sudden realization. ...

Sermon 1/24/2021

Mark 1:14-20 “Only a Matter of Time” January 24, 2021 Timing is everything.   Those of you who are at least three quarters of a century old know that tomorrow you or someone you know with a computer will be trying valiantly to get a time scheduled for your COVID...