Liz is the pastor of two United Church of Christ congregations, both in western Massachusetts, one in Monterey and the other in Lenox, and this is a podcast of the preaching from those two pulpits.
The Lord intends liberty. We might not be ready for that.
All is lost. The word has fallen silent.
Hear now the word speak.
The job of the apostles sent out is blindly obvious, yet we often miss it: Be as lambs amidst worlves. Would that the church managed that more consistently.
All who wander are not lost--but some are, or so it seems. Here's how to be found in your wandering.
Who's feasting at the table with you in glory?
Think bigger.
Tabitha spent her time making tunics for widows, not the sort of thing that will make you great in the eyes of the world. But often a life that touches deeply a few lives amounts to something greater…
This one puzzles over the cross, which is itself the puzzle of human existence and the Christian faith.
We have a standard of measuring those who would rule us, a ruler beyond the ruler. The ones these days aren't measuring up.
It could be that to claim citizenship in the Kingdom of God we put at risk out citizenship in the kingdoms of this world.
Rest assured, this is to trade up.
With heroes like the ones our popular culture has imagned, who needs villains?
You have heard it said the gospel isn't political, is but a personal matter. But I say unto you, can't it be both?
The Transfiguraton is a vision of the end broken into time, enered into the middle that might encourage is our living--and Lord knows we need encouragement, and moreover courage, these days.