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.
You catch more flies with honey than vwith vinegar. So why does Jesus front with vinegar?
Jesus can take it. He seems actually to really want to take it.
People love their gardens--and some are even willing to work for them. Others just want a hammock to swing in.
An ironic podcast, offered in the hope that in its mechanical reproduction it doesn't too much decay.
John understands the power of the people to be the source of temptation, doing the devil's work, as it were.
When your power to act is frustrated by liomitation, consider if God's love rather than some terrible offense.
It's happening. Do you not perceive it? Do you not want to join in on it?
We're back in Ordinary Time, the steady of walk of faith through the many weeks of the season after Pentecost. With this, we take a breather following many litugical high points. Just in time for som…
Trinity Sunday: the annual reminder that this isn't a doctine, it's a dynamic.
Who loses when we bring such calous disregard to our institutions?
For those who are cut off or isolatyed or cast out of all generation, the Church is a body for new possiblity.