Our time for looking at this extraordinary piece of scripture from the prophet Isaiah is somewhat limited this morning, so let me say, without any lead in, what I want to say.  Then, as the wise preaching adage goes, say it and then wrap up by telling you what I said.  Or, at least, what…

Texts: Micah 6:6-8 Mark 1:21-28; 40-45; 2:1-11 To do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8.  But also the motto for the Back Bay Mission where 14 of us will be headed on Friday for a week's worth of work helping to feed the hungry, clothe the tattered and…

Texts:  Haggai 2:1-9 Luke 20:27-40 In preparation for today's All Saints service , I asked Lesley to look through all of the bulletins from the past year in order to pull together a list of the people that we knew about who had died since last we celebrated the memory of the saints.  Which she…

Last year, a group of friends from Chicago spent a weekend gambling in Las Vegas. One of the men on the trip won $100,000. He didn't want anyone to know about it, so he decided not to return with the others. He took a later plane home, arriving around 3am. He immediately went out to…

I want to begin by relating an experience I suspect many of you have also had. I was sitting in the coffee shop a few days ago, with a few books out on the table. One was The Heart of Christianity and the other was Jesus Comes to Harvard. A woman, unknown to either of…