Sermons from 2019
Scruffy Christmas
Christmas Sermon December 24, 2019 9 PM What is the best Christmas you remember? What do you remember about the people who were there? What do you remember about the food and drink? What do you remember about the room you were in? What did it smell like? Was the room comfortable? Why? I imagine for a lot of us – what was important was not the food, or how clean the…
Christmas Sermon
Christmas Sermon December 24, 2019 5 PM So, we have just put the nativity scene together. It looks really pretty doesn’t it? What do you notice about it? Who was there? And if we believe the carol “Silent Night” – all was calm, and all was bright. Do you think it was really like that? What do you think the real nativity scene was like? If the…
Geneology
Geneology The Fourth Sunday of Advent December 23, 2019 We had a wonderful Bible Study this week at the Baptist Church. Pastor Scott Foster is, like my other clergy colleagues in Holliston, a truly remarkable person. He is knowledgeable, kind and a pillar of faith. The series we were using for our Ecumenical Bible Study this Advent was the Nativity…
Grumble
Grumble Third Sunday of Advent December 15 2019 James 5:7-10 Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Beloved, do not grumble against one…
Friends
Friends The Second Sunday of Advent December 8, 2019 This weekend I was in the New Hampshire for my mother’s 80th birthday. On Friday her neighbor from Pakistan came over with her two little boys. She is a doctor in the area, and her husband is also a doctor and for the time being he is working in Texas. She is from Pakistan. I really enjoyed…
What Are You Waiting For?
What are you waiting for?What are you waiting for? First Sunday of Advent December 1, 2019 I was in the bookstore last week and I saw this book – it was in the “sale” rack by the check out. It caught my eye because it was written by a woman whose name is Rachel Held Evans who I had only heard about a few months ago. Sadly, Evans died quite suddenly last year…
Reconciliation
Reconciliation The Last Sunday after Pentecost November 24, 2019 Preaching Text – Luke 23:33-43 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots to divide his…
Questions
Questions Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost November 10, 2019 Text: Luke 20:27-38 Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven…
Quirky
Quirky All Saints’ Day November 3, 2019 The alternate reading for this Sunday is the story of Zaccheus. How many of you know about this charming story from Luke’s gospel? I am going to read it to you – it is only a few verses. Luke 19:1-7 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector…
The Widow and The Unjust Judge
The Widow and The Unjust Judge The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost October 20, 2019 Luke 18:1-8 Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, `Grant me justice…