by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | prayers
Glimpses of beauty – light shimmering on snow, a bird resting gently on a branch, a baby’s smile, the setting sun reflected on a stream – offer a respite from some of the harder to bear parts of your created world, Almighty One. May we be seekers of...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 3:13-17 “Belovedness” January 12, 2020 Baptism of Christ Sunday Many of us have no memory of our baptisms, the vows of which we just renewed. My only memory is not of the event itself but of a photograph of me as a 4 week old infant being held in the arms of...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 4:12-23 “Followership” January 26, 2020 We’re following the leader, the leader, the leader. We’re following the leader wherever he may go. So goes the song from the Walt Disney movie of Peter Pan. Leaders are the ones we look up to, sometimes putting them too...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | past sermons
John 1:29-42 “Then What?” January 19, 2020 What begins quietly enough on an April day in the French countryside soon becomes the ultimate invitation within the darkened theater to “Come and see.” One young man is beckoned to, because of his brother, and the other is...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 18, 2020 | prayers
Imagining the distinctions in each snowflake that falls to the ground fills fills us with awe and then there is the coming together of all that diversity into ground cover which will ultimately allow for the new life of spring. God of us all, knowing the distinctions...
