Rev. Liz Goodman, Lenox & Monterey UCC

Christmas harks us to a gauzy past. It should rather poress us into an imperitive future.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: The_Future_Is_Coming.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:27am EST

Wrong again! What a gift!

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: The_Joy_of_Being_Wrong.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:31am EST

And all flesh shall see it together!

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: All_Flesh.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:36am EST

Melodious Accord came to Church on the Hill to sing in Advent. 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenonx (UCC)

Direct download: Sing_to_Us.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:18am EST

"What is truth?" Pilate asks, not recognizing that truth is there in the room with him.

 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Living_the_Truth.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:50am EST

Jesus' counsel was clear: resist, don't revolt. Time for rebuilding for the sake of better justice is coming.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Resist.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:22am EST

The poor widow wasn't to be praised. Rather, the Tample was to be shamed. We're not morally upright when we cooperate with power structures that exploit. Jesus meant something else altogether.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Sanctuary_in_the_Aftermath.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:05am EST

We will be forgotten. We are remembered. 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: For_All_the_Saints.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:14am EST

This last encounter of Jesus' ministry wastes no time. Bartimeaus is ready to go.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: A_Slip_of_a_Story.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:03am EST

You say you want a revolution? Well, we all want to change the world. But is revolution our best option?

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox

Direct download: Turning_or_Transforming.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:25am EST

Possessing instread of allowing yourself to be possessed: you might lack this one thing too.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Possessed_by_Possessing.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:26am EST

There can be joy in being wrong.

 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Lonely_for_You.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:28am EST

This one goes out to Thomas Hobbes, Mark Lilla, Jeffery Goldberg, and my next door neighbor from long ago whose name I can't remember but whose question to me I do.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Testing_Testing.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:26am EST

You catch more flies with honey than vwith vinegar. So why does Jesus front with vinegar?

 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Vinegar.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:07am EST

Can indeed the Lord dwell on earth?

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Abiding_Truth.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:22am EST

Jesus can take it. He seems actually to really want to take it.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Do_Your_Worst.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:00am EST

People love their gardens--and some are even willing to work for them. Others just want a hammock to swing in.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Garden_Work.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:03am EST

An ironic podcast, offered in the hope that in its mechanical reproduction it doesn't too much decay.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: A_Living_Word_I_Hope.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:02am EST

John understands the power of the people to be the source of temptation, doing  the devil's work, as it were.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Tempting_People.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:09am EST

What are we supposed to do?

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Maybe_Its_Maybelline.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:11am EST

Take your rest. God's purpose is being accomplished.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Put_Your_Book_Down.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:43am EST

When your power to act is frustrated by liomitation, consider if God's love rather than some terrible offense.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Stops_In_the_Name_of_Love.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:17am EST

What a wild idea.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

 

Direct download: The_Sacred_Canopy_is_All_the_Sky.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:37am EST

It's happening. Do you not perceive it? Do you not want to join in on it?

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Pack_and_Stand.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:28am EST

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 some summer rest.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Back_To_Normal.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:14am EST

Trinity Sunday: the annual reminder that this isn't a doctine, it's a dynamic.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: To_Get_Got.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:14am EST


Happy birthday, church.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Pentecost_Sunday_2024.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:09am EST

Who loses when we bring such calous disregard to our institutions? 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Good_Order.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:21am EST

For those who are cut off or isolatyed or cast out of all generation, the Church is a body for new possiblity.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: The_Church_is_a_New_Generation.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:06am EST

Taking up the cross isn't to hammer others with it but to excercise a willingness to be the one hanging from it.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: The_Blind_Can_See.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:17am EST

Requesting to see the wounds isn't doubt, and isn't morbiod fascination. It's Thomas leading us away from his own nationalism into real faith.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Sunflowers_All.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:07am EST

Happy Easter!

Now, let's get going.

 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Resurrection_Sunday_2024.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:54am EST

The day is surely coming, but until it's here this will do.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Practice_til_Perfect.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:11am EST

The church gathers for what may be, and by this we give occasion for it to be. Impossible love! Imperitive love.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Gather_for_May_Be.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:18am EST

Time offers a different sort of temple in which the church can gather. It requires a lot less maintanance.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: We_Would_Be_a_Building.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:18am EST

Who requires the suffering of Christ? We've often gotten that important quesiton wrong.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Must-ness.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:29am EST

Maybe it's time to changeg our minds about God, that God isn't about ruin but about repair.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Ruin_or_Repair.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:23am EST

Sometimes what's shiny objects to our refusal to allow it to be more than that.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Shiny_Objects.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:00am EST

We all want to change the world. The question is what end we'd hope such change will bring about.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Power_to_Serve.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:15am EST

We're not usually this sick, but sometimes we do really need strong mediine.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Strong_Medicine.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:22am EST

Your attention is your most precious resource. Pay it to something worthy.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Pay_Attention.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:07am EST

The call is coming from inside the house--or not.

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Ding-a-Ling.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:07am EST

This is a special edition of the podcast, a talk I will give at a concert in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. near his birthday..

 

Direct download: MLK_Day_Concert_Talk.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:50pm EST

The Magi should frighten us--for how do they know what they know, and how do we know what this new revelation makes known and how do we know we can trust it? When orthodoxy falls by the wayside, how do you find a new--and true--way?

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Direct download: Knowing_What_We_Know.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:04am EST

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