Sun, 3 December 2023
Advent begins adventure. And there's no going back. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Next_Years_Troubles.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:11am EST
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Sun, 26 November 2023
The end of the church year brings us to what endures: love. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Love_Is_King.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 19 November 2023
The question is whether we're going for with the mission or burying it for safe keeping. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: The_Mission_Is_Mercy.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 12 November 2023
Direct download: The_Whole_Story.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 5 November 2023
Direct download: The_Art_of_Following.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:12am EST
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Sun, 22 October 2023
God's sovereinty is one more scanalandous claim of the Christian faith. History provides so many reasons to think otherwise. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Tacking_Into_the_Wind.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:59am EST
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Sun, 15 October 2023
Here's a sermon about true signs as opposed to graven images. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Know_Justice_Know_Peace.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:18am EST
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Sun, 8 October 2023
Church as sanctuary. Is this purpose enough to save us? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Come_In_from_the_Storm.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:31am EST
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Sun, 1 October 2023
Will you do what you say you won't, or will you refuse but come around eventually? Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church, UCC
Direct download: Yes_but_No._No_but_Yes..mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 24 September 2023
Fairness or grace: which do you want? Becasue you can't have both., Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: This_Had_Better_Be_Good.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:01am EST
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Sun, 17 September 2023
The forgiven must forgive. It could have been a much shorter sermon that it is. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: The_Forgiven_Must_Forgive.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:28am EST
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Sun, 10 September 2023
How to be community with out butting in. That's a tough one. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: A_Keeper.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:12am EST
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Sun, 3 September 2023
God begs us to pay our attention to what's worthy of it. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Attention_Pleas.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:36am EST
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Sun, 20 August 2023
Direct download: Shocked_Shocked.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 13 August 2023
Direct download: Being_in_Love.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:36am EST
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Sun, 6 August 2023
God plays in the world as sufficiency. Enough can be a blessing. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Enough.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 30 July 2023
Direct download: Hiding_in_Plain_Sight.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 23 July 2023
Direct download: Evil_Twin.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:41am EST
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Sun, 25 June 2023
Following Jesus won't necessarily make your life easier or your relationships better. Some social structures would rather you compromise the truth than live into it. You've been warned. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Behave_Yourself.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:34am EST
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Sun, 18 June 2023
Sarah laughed, gave birth to Laughter, making us sons and daughters of laughter. So laugh it up, Fuzzball. Let your lung be filled with God. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Laught_It_Up_Fuzzball.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:44am EST
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Sun, 11 June 2023
As we embark into Ordinary Time, we'll be spending it together, which is itself the point. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Wandering_Sermon.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:43am EST
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Sun, 4 June 2023
Direct download: Word__Deed.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:16am EST
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Sun, 28 May 2023
Prepared for surprise: the church is full of contradictions. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Surprise_Right_on_Schedule.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:27am EST
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Sun, 21 May 2023
The ten-day wait between Jesus ascending and the Holy Spirit: we endure it once again. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Word__Silence.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:45am EST
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Sun, 14 May 2023
The church isn't abut heroics, it's about creating communities where heroics are less in demand. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Ties_that_Gently_Bind.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:29am EST
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Sun, 7 May 2023
Direct download: Object_Permanence.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:45am EST
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Sun, 16 April 2023
Direct download: Get_Real_Close.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 9 April 2023
Direct download: Resurrection_Day_2023.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 2 April 2023
Direct download: Palm_Sunday_2023.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 26 March 2023
Direct download: Attachment_Theory.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:44am EST
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Sun, 19 March 2023
Jesus has come to complete the creation as it is not yet finished. It's going well, of course. But it could be better. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Not_Finished.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:34am EST
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Sun, 12 March 2023
Direct download: Barely.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:21am EST
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Sun, 5 March 2023
God's people are always called out of the familair. And God's people are also always out there. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Come_Out_Come_Out_Wheverever_You_Are.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 28 February 2023
Lent is a good time to put it all back together, these shards of knowledge and suspicion, into a whole renewed wisdom. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Divided_Knowledge.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:14am EST
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Sun, 19 February 2023
It's Transfiguration Sunday, and maybe we're ready. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Trans_Figure.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:19am EST
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Sun, 12 February 2023
The church: we're supposed to be doing something, right? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Do_to_Be.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:11am EST
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Sun, 5 February 2023
Direct download: Critical_Thinking.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:09am EST
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Sun, 22 January 2023
You get what you get, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get upset. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Get_Upset.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:21am EST
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Sun, 15 January 2023
When you don't know what you think you should know, it's hard to learn what you need to know. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Wheel_In_a_Wheel.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:31am EST
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Sun, 8 January 2023
You can't always get what you want. But with Jesus as beloved, we get what we need. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Dashed_Expectations.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:35am EST
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Sun, 18 December 2022
Christmas has become a monster of a season, but what it comes down to is almost embarrasingly basic.
Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Back_to_Basics.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:35am EST
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Sun, 11 December 2022
Jesus is painfully, disappointingly local in his saving work. And the woirld's need is massive, endless. How will this possibly do? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox
Direct download: A_Feature_Not_a_Bug.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:34am EST
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Sun, 4 December 2022
John helps us anticipate Jesus. But he didn't get everything about the one for whom we wait quite right. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: A_Divine_Comedy.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:38am EST
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Sun, 27 November 2022
Advent present us with the challenge of hope--a full recogntion of what's dreadful about the world while also fully assured that God is coming, while also here, to restore, renew, and reign in love. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Free_Cow.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:38am EST
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Sun, 20 November 2022
We've reached the end of the church year, Christ the King Sunday, a tricky feast day. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Round_to_the_End.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:04am EST
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Sun, 13 November 2022
Jesus warns that the world won't go easy on us. Isaiah envisions a new reality that will have worked all that out. Ours is to persevere toward this point. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Reality_Will_Save_Us.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 6 November 2022
Direct download: Comma.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:19am EST
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Sun, 23 October 2022
Prayer is a moemnt alone with your God, and sometimes that's as hard a things as there is. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Being_with_Being.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:33am EST
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Sun, 16 October 2022
Jacob made progress, leaving Esau behind. Are we okay with that? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Progress.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:29am EST
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Sun, 9 October 2022
God's presence shows up in places least expected and places where we perhaps we least want to be. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: No_Thanks_but_Thanks.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:31am EST
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Sun, 2 October 2022
Where there is, turns out, either nothing or everything. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Liminal_Spaces.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:02am EST
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Sun, 25 September 2022
Look for hopeless causes for the right of redemption might be yours. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Right_of_Redemption.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:11am EST
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Sun, 18 September 2022
The church has squandered our wealth. What now to do? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Mismanagement.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:24am EST
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Sun, 11 September 2022
Freedom is a terrible bruned. No wonder so many seek a cage. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Captive_Minds.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:12am EST
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Sun, 28 August 2022
The old ship of Zion moves slowly, but there's room for everyone. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Unassorted_Jib_Jabs.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:37am EST
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Sun, 21 August 2022
Keeping the sabbath is as much about liberation as it is about rest. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: And_Twice_on_Sundays.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:55am EST
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Sun, 14 August 2022
Jesus is tough to match moods with in August. Let's see if we can try,. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Lit_of_Fire.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:32am EST
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Sun, 24 July 2022
A moment arrives, and all your readying must be done. Now you just receive. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: You_Might_Miss_This.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 5:18pm EST
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Sun, 24 July 2022
Teach us to pray, the disciples said. Not how, or why, what to pray. Instead simply, Teach us to pray. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Unashamed.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 5:03pm EST
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Sun, 10 July 2022
Be the Good Samaritan. Be the man who set out. There will come opporutnities for you be one or the other, and both make for good. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Most_People.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:25am EST
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Sun, 3 July 2022
...and the what is the why. Sharing Jesus' love isn't a means to an end, it's the manifestation of the end. You don't get a rpize for doing it, it is itself the prize. Love. Love in action. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: The_How_Is_the_What.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 26 June 2022
The end is decided but how you get there is another question. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Where_You_Going.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 6:27pm EST
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Sun, 19 June 2022
Direct download: Juneteenth.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:41am EST
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Sun, 5 June 2022
Direct download: Clean_Up_This_Mess.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 22 May 2022
Direct download: Wandering_But_Not_Lost.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:25am EST
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Sun, 15 May 2022
Peter is pulling a thread that could unravel the whole garment... Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Thanks_for_Nothing_Peter.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:04am EST
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Sun, 8 May 2022
Direct download: Hysterics.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:39am EST
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Sun, 1 May 2022
You aren't that. So listen in peace and reassurance. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: The_Worst_Thing_Youve_Ever_Done.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:52am EST
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Sun, 24 April 2022
Direct download: Call_and_Response.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:28am EST
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Sun, 17 April 2022
Direct download: Resurrection_2022.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:58am EST
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Sun, 10 April 2022
Palm Sunday is supposed to be a plesant celebration. I'm sorry to say, however... Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Sorry_to_Say.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:23am EST
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Sun, 3 April 2022
Embarrassing, intimate, smelling is indiscrimate--but also exclusive. With its insistence on the body, smelling demands, "You had to be there." Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: You_Smell.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:02am EST
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Sun, 27 March 2022
Direct download: Fool_for_Love.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:18am EST
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Sun, 20 March 2022
Time to get serious. No more Airbnb for us. Time to plant roots and bear fruit. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Nows_the_Time.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:48am EST
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Sun, 13 March 2022
Direct download: Left_Wanting_2.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:16am EST
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Sun, 6 March 2022
Bread and circus, please! But we don't live by bread alone. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Here_We_Are_Now_Entertain_Us.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:31am EST
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Sun, 13 February 2022
Jesus and the twelve were hardly the gods they were enacting to be--and this is very much the point. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Extra_Ordinary.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:12am EST
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Sun, 6 February 2022
A close encounter with the holy can really leave us feeling ugly. Best to avoid it then? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Ashamed_of_Ourselves.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:20am EST
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Sun, 23 January 2022
It would come to be called the "fullness of time." More coloquially, it's the 1st century AD. So, why now for God to act so radically in Christ? What made it the right time? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Why_Now.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:57am EST
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Sun, 16 January 2022
It might be a tough thing to manage these days, but moments of joy will find us, enlighten us. Look for these moments and treasure them in your hearts. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Joy.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 9:14am EST
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Sun, 9 January 2022
The magi were expecting probably something quite different...? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: This_Is_All.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:47pm EST
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Sun, 2 January 2022
The 2nd Sunday after Christmas is maybe the worst Sunday to find ourselves back online for worship. But here we are... Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Excarnation.mp3
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Sun, 19 December 2021
Christmas isn't a holiday for nostalgia, it's a holiday to press us more deeply into today and the future that how live now will bring. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Its_Coming.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:25am EST
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Sun, 12 December 2021
John was great at being a herald. He fell short of being the messiah. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Unquenchable_Fire.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:31am EST
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Sun, 5 December 2021
Direct download: Ready_or_Not.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:51pm EST
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Sun, 28 November 2021
The coming of the son of man coincides with a lot of trouble. So, is it good news that we've got a lot of trouble these days? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Good_Trouble.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:11am EST
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Mon, 22 November 2021
The last Sunday of the church year is a good time to wonder whether we're up for another trip around the calendar. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: A_Few_Options.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:26pm EST
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Sun, 14 November 2021
Numbers are down in congregations across the county, maybe across the country. Endurance is the name of the game for the faithful. So, who's with me? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:10am EST
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Sun, 7 November 2021
The widow might have been happy to give her last penny to the Temple. Jesus wasn't happy for her. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Tide_Up.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:53am EST
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Sun, 24 October 2021
Jesus urges us to be as children. So what's stopping us from doing that? Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church, UCC
Direct download: Hey_Kiddo.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:37am EST
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Sun, 17 October 2021
Revolution? Resignation? Some mysterious third way? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: You_Say_You_Want_a_Revolution.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:39am EST
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Sun, 10 October 2021
Hell is other people--or maybe that's the kingdom of heaven. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Enter_At_Your_Own_Risk.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:08am EST
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Sun, 3 October 2021
Pay attention to the things that make your stumble on your way to God, and the things that help you get close. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church, UCC
Direct download: Hot_and_Cold.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:30am EST
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Sun, 26 September 2021
The church isn't designed for efficiency. That said, there's no better time for manifesting the reign of God than now. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Asking_for_Trouble.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:37am EST
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Sun, 19 September 2021
Power is meant to serve the good. Beware when power is put to serving power. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Power.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:33am EST
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Sun, 12 September 2021
Repentance, which is a change of mind, comes with repetition. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: To_Change_Your_Mind.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:58am EST
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Sun, 5 September 2021
The moment when Jesus learned he was Christ for the world is an ugly one. Brace yourself for a moment when Jesus was't "the good guy." Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church, UCC
Direct download: Far_Away.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:00am EST
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Sun, 22 August 2021
Empires rise and fall, but the word of the Lord speaks as ever. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Bare_Necessities.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:18am EST
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Sun, 15 August 2021
Jesus invites us to bring our worst--and our worst is pretty bad. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: Sorry_About_This.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:01am EST
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Mon, 9 August 2021
Remember that old summer camp song, "They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love (by our Love)"? Turns out that was pretty good stuff. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Direct download: What_Do_We_Do_Now.m4a
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:59pm EST
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