Category: SERMONS, WORSHIP, MEDITATIONS

Genesis 9:8-17 We started with remarking on the number of  40 day periods in Bible stories. The Flood and Jesus’ temptation were the ones in today’s lectionary but we recalled also Moses’ 40 day trial  after the golden calf incident,Elija’s 40 days on Mt. Sinai, the Jew’s 40 years in the wilderness. SC made the…

This is a sermon given in my sister’s church in Port Townsend Washington.   I thought it would be appreciated by those who followed the discussion on Sunday, the 22nd.  (Pam Goff) 2 Kings 2:1-12                                                                       Elizabeth Bloch Psalm 50:1-6                                                                          2/22/09 2 Corinthians 4:3-6                                                                 Last Epiphany Mark 9:2-9                                                                             Year B The View from the Mountaintop or In…

2 Kings 2:1-12 Rev. Dr.P.W. spoke about how the Old Testament was different  when read from the Christian perspective.  The taking up of Elijah in the whirlwind at the end of his life looked forward to Jesus’ embodiment of the spirit and his transfiguration and subsequent death and resurrection. There were parts of this reading…

Most of the readings this Sunday  referenced healing.While Psalm 30 appears to be in the voice of one recently healed , giving praise,  it may have been used metaphorically at the dedication of the temple in 146 bc , as the voice of the restored Hebrew people.  Some of the commentaries for this day draw…

“In my view, the mission of the church is not to enlarge membership, not to bring outsiders to accept its terms, but simply to love the world in every possible way—to love the world as God did and does. The body of Christ is a network of organic connections between people,  connections  which make one’s…

Isaiah 40:21-31 This poetic admonition was written to the Jews in Exile in Babylon .  We talked about what it meant to “wait on (or upon) the Lord”.   DC spoke about the ancient concept that gods inhabit certain geographical spaces and that, being in Exile, the Jews needed to be reminded that their God was…

Chilmark Community Church February 8, 2009 Prelude: Invention #8 J.S.Bach Gathering and Announcements Call to worship: Isaiah 40:21-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,…

Arlene spoke without notes, so this is a report of some of her remarks by a witness.  She preached from Mark1:21-28 about Jesus’ teaching with authority, a new kind of teaching.  She gave examples of people with authority and emphasized that they had experienced what they taught.  She told two stories to illustrate her remarks. …