Easter Love, or How Love Is: A sermon preached by Lee Cheek, Lay Preacher
Love came down at Christmas,love all lovely, Love divine; love was born at Christmas, star and angels gave the sign. I’ve always loved this poem by Christina Rosetti because I wanted it to be true. The Church has always said that it is only through the lens of Easter that we can really know that God’s […]
Jesus Came and Stood Among Them
I have set the Lord always before me; * because he is at my right hand I shall not fall. My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices; * my body also shall rest in hope. For you will not abandon me to the grave, * nor let your holy one see the Pit. You will […]
God Loves Us With an Everlasting Love
On this day the Lord has acted; * we will rejoice and be glad in it. Today is the day that we celebrate when God raised Jesus from a violent and unjust death to life eternal. Jesus was not extinguished by the forces of unrestrained power nor contained by a grave. Instead just as he told his […]
I was blind, but now I see.
“Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, […]
You must be born from above
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills; * from where is my help to come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, * the maker of heaven and earth. Last Thursday, Kathy Clausen and I attending a training at the Congregational Church in Lee on building a sanctuary community. The training was offered by Berkshire Interfaith Organizing and […]
Trust in God
You are my hiding-place; you preserve me from trouble; *you surround me with shouts of deliverance. When our sons were very little, before they learned to swim, we would take them to the pool to cool off on hot summer days in Texas. One of their favorite things to do was to jump from the […]
Rise Up!
Rise Up! May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Amen The prophet Micah lived during a time of great political turmoil and distress. For much of the eighth century BCE the mighty Assyrian Empire sought to gobble up […]
What are you looking for?
1 I waited patiently upon the Lord; * he stooped to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the desolate pit, out of the mire and clay; * he set my feet upon a high cliff and made my footing sure. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a […]
Baptism Saturated in Hope
I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, (Isaiah 42:6) I went to a meeting last week as I am wont to do when possible to sit and […]
This will be a sign for you
More than two thousand years ago a baby was born in a remote village to a couple who had traveled under the command of their Roman oppressors to be counted and taxed. This baby grew into a man whose life was a wonder and power to those who knew him. Stories of miracles surrounded him. […]