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Even the Stones Will Cry Out
Pastors Mary Scheer and Patti Ricotta team up to fill in for Pastor Doug. As Pastor Patti and I are sharing this message, we will be using the scripture Pastor Doug had planned on using today. When we realized on Friday that we would be preaching, we decided to split…
The Best Question Ever
The other day I read a story in the New York Post titled Sucker! A would-be bank robber walked into a Manhattan bank hoping for a sweet payday — but left with nothing but some hard candy when a quick-thinking teller gave him the runaround, law-enforcement sources told The Post.…
The Gift of Confession
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night…
Growing with Christ in Your Sanctuary
When you were little, or your kids were little, did anybody ever draw lines on the door post measuring the child’s height from year to year? Why did we do that? We wanted to see how much the child had grown, right? It was fun to see how much healthy…
When You Are Tested and Tempted
John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is fairly well known even if it isn’t fairly well read. It’s a retelling of the fall of Adam and Eve and hence humanity from God’s original created perfection. Much less well known, unfortunately, is the sequel, Paradise Regained. Especially striking about the latter…
Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There is Freedom
This is President’s Weekend when our nation remembers… to buy cars and go on vacation. In addition to those things, we also remember the births of two of our greatest presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Both Washington and Lincoln were instrumental in America being the land of freedom that…
Who Are You Leaning On?
I had a nice time in Florida both at Red Sox Fantasy Camp, where for the second year in a row my team made it all the way to the championship game only to lose in the finals. Still it was a great week for me to share with my…
Behind The Walls
Recently, Dave and I watched the latest spider man movie. Every few years there is a new Batman or super hero movie out. Maybe the super hero movies are meant to counter the zombie apocalypse movement that’s so popular today. I wonder if people are fascinated with zombies and apocalyptic…
Compassion? Why?
Rev. Steve Youd, Director of Mission and Stewardship for the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts. Steve holds degrees from both Gordon College and Yale University, the latter awarding him the Mersick Preaching Prize. For the past 14 years, Steve has served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hanson,…
The Voice of the Lord
When I went to Boston University School of Theology in the fall of 1986, the first thing they did for incoming students and the faculty and staff was to have us all get on a boat in Boston Harbor and go out to one of the islands and walk around,…
How God Leads Us
A traffic stop last month in Plano, Texas ended unlike any you’ve ever heard about. It started when Hayden Carlo was pulled over for an expired registration sticker. According to and interview, Carlo says he’s been struggling to support his wife and two small children. “You get paid, pay your…
The Power of God
Good morning and Happy Almost New Year! I really cannot believe that we stand on the brink of a new year, of 2013. Just hearing 2013 come out of my mouth is surreal in so many ways. I remember the new millennium, 2000 very well because that was a big…