Midweek Prayer

In our part of your creation, Loving God, the sap is running and those dedicated to bringing it to your people will put in many hours and much devotion, starting with so much liquid and, with patience, it will be sugared down to sweet goodness.  Could it be that we...

March 1, 2020

Luke 10: 25-37 “Good Neighbors” March 1, 2020 (Start with video of Mr. Rogers’ “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”)  With that song and those familiar actions of switching into the zipped up sweater that was one of many that were knit for the first 20 years of the show by his...

Sermon 2/23/2020

Matthew 17:1-9, Exodus 24:12-18 “The Way Down” February 23, 2020   Transfiguration Sunday What goes up must come down.  It was a gorgeous autumn Monday and after years of living here in Arlington, we finally decided it was time to take what we had been told was the...

Sermon 2/9/2020

Matthew 5:13-20 “Positively Salt and Light” February 9, 2020 We are salt and we are light.  Jesus is declaring our identities and he’s including each of us.  Sometimes we’re more salt.  After Friday night’s snow storm, the dedicated Town of Arlington plow crew were...

Sermon 2/2/2020

Matthew 5:1-12 “Our Best Selves” February 2, 2020 The phenomenon has been growing and growing over the past decade and there doesn’t seem to be agreement on what sparked it but it seems to have taken on a life of its own.  It’s a practice that individually with one...