by Federated Church East Arlington | Jun 12, 2021 | past sermons
John 3:1-17 “Three in One/One in Three” May 30, 2021 Trinity Sunday Three little pigs, the Three Tenors, My Three Sons, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, a Priest, a Minister and a Rabbi go into a bar, the Three Stooges, the Three Musketeers – so many examples of the...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jun 12, 2021 | past sermons
Mark 3:20-35 “Family Ties” June 6, 2021 Communion Sunday Kooky, mad, nuts, lunatic, bats in the belfry, round the bend, unhinged, unbalanced. All words used when we refer to folks whose viewpoint seems so dramatically different from ours. Maybe they come from the...
by Federated Church East Arlington | May 28, 2021 | past sermons
Acts 2:1-21 “To Understand and Be Understood” May 23, 2021 What word or phrase do you use to express amazement? Maybe it’s awesome or spectacular or even unbelievable. This is the day for all of those words and any others you bring out for those special occasions when...
by Federated Church East Arlington | May 28, 2021 | past sermons
John 17:6-19 “Otherworldly” May 16, 2021 On a walk along a beach, leaning into the window of an idling car, in a busy ER waiting room, standing in the snow, on a train heading to New York, on a darkened porch, in the produce aisle at Hannaford, at a table in a diner...
by Federated Church East Arlington | May 14, 2021 | past sermons
John 15:9-17 “Love, Over and Over Again” May 9, 2021 Most of us want to break free. We’ve had enough of restrictions – mask requirements, social distancing, limits on numbers of people indoors, large gatherings shrunk down and spaced out, church and meetings...
by Federated Church East Arlington | May 5, 2021 | past sermons
Acts 8:26-40 “Understanding” May 2, 2021 Three centuries ago, the French writer and philosopher Voltaire, kept getting into hot water. It happened so often that he was even put in prison a couple of times and he was exiled to England, all because of the stuff he had...