Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC

The yoke is easy, but is yet a yoke. The burden is light, but is still burden. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

God is still speaking. Good thing Abraham was still listening. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

We don't have to figure out the plan and follow it. Faith is less about figuring things out and more about trusting God's promise of presence, God's enduring, undesvered faithfulness, and God's providence as a wide land of privision in reponse to our freedom. So let's keep going. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Sarah thought she shouldn't have laughed, and everyone ever seince seems to agree. But Isaac was laughter so the story suggests we might all be wrong.  Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

In the age of AI intimacy, gathering for church is radically counter-cultural even if sometimes a pain in the neck. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

While Jesus worried the disciples weren't ready, many of them might have been more ready indeed. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus is leaving, but another is coming, an Advocate by whom God's judgment is grace. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

What does Christianity look like in the world?  Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The gate that we thought only led in: apparently also it leads out. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Here's something ordinary about someone who shows up as orindary. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Thomas didn't jjust doubt in the resurrection, he doubted in the resurrection of the crucified one-which a lot of "Christians" these days seem to doubt in as well. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Every reason not to believe. Every reason to hope. So here's a word of hope, of truth.

Raising Lazarus mean a conemnation to death for Jesus. He did it anyway. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The good guys always win, meaning the apparent fact that good guys aren't meaning simply means it's not over. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Here's a sermon. I hope it sustains. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Gospel of John features many priivate encounters. They also press upon us a  public-facing faith.   Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Sometimes you can't tell. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Paul chose foolishness, even among busy Corinth. That's a risky choice, but it's the only good one when it comes to the gospel.  Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Truth is what continues to prove true. The hope is this sermon, nearly a decade old, consinutes to prove true. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus fled and considered one final temptation: a home by the sea. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

We might well understand a sacrficial lamb for God, but what does it mean, a Lamb of God? Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The world horrifies. Here's someone familiar whose company we might enjoy. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The incarnation of God in Christ defies a lot of things so-called Christian Nationalists would like to deify. They're wrong. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The story that so closely follows Christmas might unsettle us as much as it the baby Jesus and his parents, all in flight. But Christmas doens't amke way for the world, it makes its way in the world. So unsettled is just the right feeling. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Here's a homily for Christmas Eve. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)