A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, July 13, 2008 Matthew 13:1-9 Matthew 13:18-23 When a familiar passage pops up in the Lectionary, especially a parable, I get nervous. I read it. I read it again. And again. Waiting. Hoping. But, there’s still that one story that I remember about it – that one […]
A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, July 6, 2008 Matthew 11:16-19 Matthew 11:25-30 “I know that I am living the American dream that my parents searched for themselves and their children. [But], does that mean that we need to forget our past history and fully assimilate into the American culture? Am I wrong
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A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, June 29, 2008 Genesis 22:1-14 Too much religion. That was the unanimous opinion of my family last weekend. The memorial service for my grandfather was nice – but the minister was a little heavy on the religion. It was too much. Too much religion. Maybe this was
A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, June 22, 2008 Genesis 21:8-21 Long, long ago, in the earliest times – long before people knew how to read and write, they told stories: stories of faith and hope, stories of war and peace, stories about friends and enemies. We’re told that Abram and his wife
A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, June 15, 2008 Matthew 5:1-5 I missed you last Sunday. I’m sure every one of you was here, but I wasn’t. I was away for the weekend and spent Saturday in Holden, Massachusetts, in my mother’s girlhood church, for her memorial service and the burial of her
A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, June 8, 2008 Genesis 12:1-9 This is a story of beginnings. It’s the story that you may never have asked your own parents. (Never mind your Biblical ancestors.) It’s the story your parents were probably reluctant to tell – like how my step-mother was tripped into my
A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, June 1, 2008 Matthew 7:21-26 You’ve probably heard the term “100-year flood” or “100-year storm” tossed around. It was used a lot following Hurricane Katrina. And just a month ago, experts declared the flooding of the St. John River in Fort Kent to be at that 100-year
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A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, May 25, 2008 Matthew 6:24-34 Memorial Day has its roots in Decoration Day, established right after the Civil War as a day to mourn the Union soldiers who died in service to their country. It was a day for decorating the cemeteries where the fallen heroes lay.
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A sermon by Senior Minister John B. McCall, May 11, 2008 Acts 2:1-13 John 20:19-23 You know we have four Gospels in our New Testament, each telling the Good News of Jesus Christ in a particular way for a particular audience. You know that the book we call “Acts” or “the Acts of the Apostles”
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A sermon by Associate Minister Elsa A. Peters, May 4, 2008 Acts 1:1-14 Lover of God, that’s how this narrative is addressed. It’s addressed to a guy named Theophilus, which literally means “lover of God.” No matter who this guy was (and no one knows), this second book is written to each of us. We
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