John 6:24-35 One of our first big purchases as a young family was a dining room table. The table took months to be fabricated and...

John 6:1-21 The feeding of 5,000 people with five barley loaves and two fish is one of the more well-known stories about Jesus. Aside...

2 Samuel 7:1-14 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 I’d like to begin by sharing “A Tale of Two Adirondack Mornings”: Two weeks ago, I woke up as the...

Amos 7:7-15 Mark 6:14-29 Our two lessons today both feature kings behaving badly. In the Old Testament lesson, we hear Amos being exiled...

2 Corinthians 12:2-10 “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9). This is one of the most...

Mark 5:21-43 Our gospel lesson this morning is structured like a sandwich. It begins and ends with the story of Jairus’s daughter, and...

Exodus1:8-2:10 Matthew 16:13-20 I saw it yesterday on Spring Pond. I’m betting most of you have seen it: when the wind is calm, the...

Genesis 45:1-15 Matthew 15:21-28 I was feeling lost this week when I got this Facebook greeting from my Dean, Pastor Regina Goodrich, in...

Matthew 14:22-33 Romans 10:5-15 Some of you may know that before I entered the ministry, I worked at a bank on Wall Street. I loved my...

Exodus 34:29-35 Luke 9:28-36 One of my favorite memories from a few summers ago took place when my children were young. They found a...

Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 There is a commonplace experience of parenthood that may be as cliché as it is resonant. It often...

Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 When Allison learned that her digestive problems were caused by a five-inch tumor blocking part of...

Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 When I lived in Costa Rica, there was a program by the Costa Rican government to place computer...

Romans 7:15-25a Matthew 11:16-19,25-30 One disadvantage of being a former athlete is that my body became comfortable consuming more than...

Genesis 22:1-14 Matthew 10:40-42 One of the most well-known excerpts of T.S. Eliot’s poem, Four Quartets, is the beginning of the final...

Psalm 112, Philippians 2: 1-11, Luke 14: 1, 7-14 It was 2007, the year I retired. I was on an ancestry hunt, researching what I hoped...

Isaiah 58, Psalm 103, Luke 13 Resilience is a word I’ve thought about this week. I heard a school principle in the north country state...

Jeremiah 23:23-29; Luke 12:49-56 As I mentioned during announcements, this is my final Sunday with you this summer. I would rather that I...

Genesis 15:1-6; Luke 12:32-40 I’d like to spend some time with the first lesson that Luke Harris read from Genesis because it becomes the...

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23; Luke 12:13-21 Our first lesson today from Ecclesiastes, which Ella Nalle read for us, has historically...