When he comes, what will he do?

When he comes, what will he do?
Matthew 21:33-46
October 4, 2020

It’s all gift, all of it:

the vista from the ledges on the brow of Blue Hill, stretching from the mountains of Acadia across Blue Hill Bay and Penobscot Bay to the Camden Hills,

the brightly-colored leaves — orange and yellow and red — providing a last visual treat before long months of chill and darkness,

the fire that sparks and crackles, taking the edge off the chill and intimating deep mysteries of the universe in its dancing flames.… Continue reading ...

Creation

Creation (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 1:1 – 2:4
Revelation 21:1-5
April 22, 2018

It would have been easier to do nothing.

It would have been easier if God made nothing: no heavens, no earth, no universe, no us.  If God made nothing, no thing, if there were no human beings, no human history, God would surely be spared so much anguish, so much heartbreak, so much bitter disappointment. … Continue reading ...

This is the king

This is the king (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Luke 23:33-43
November 20, 2016

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

What did he want?  He wanted to be remembered.  He didn’t want to be forgotten.  He had made a mess of his life and he knew it, but he didn’t want to be forgotten, disappear from this earth as if he never existed, remembered by nobody, mattering to nobody.… Continue reading ...

Peace is healing


Peace is … healing
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Isaiah 35:1-10
December 11, 2016

Dry, barren, infertile, exhausted.  Sick, discouraged, broken, afraid.  Sorrowing, grieving, empty, homeless.  These are the wastelands — wastelands of the soul, wastelands of the body, wastelands of the earth.

We have all been in wastelands, some of us just to visit for just a short while, but some of us for long stretches of our lives, so long we thought we might never leave. … Continue reading ...