by Federated Church East Arlington | Mar 4, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 17:1-9, Exodus 24:12-18 “The Way Down” February 23, 2020 Transfiguration Sunday What goes up must come down. It was a gorgeous autumn Monday and after years of living here in Arlington, we finally decided it was time to take what we had been told was the...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Feb 18, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 5:13-20 “Positively Salt and Light” February 9, 2020 We are salt and we are light. Jesus is declaring our identities and he’s including each of us. Sometimes we’re more salt. After Friday night’s snow storm, the dedicated Town of Arlington plow crew were...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Feb 8, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 5:1-12 “Our Best Selves” February 2, 2020 The phenomenon has been growing and growing over the past decade and there doesn’t seem to be agreement on what sparked it but it seems to have taken on a life of its own. It’s a practice that individually with one...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 3:13-17 “Belovedness” January 12, 2020 Baptism of Christ Sunday Many of us have no memory of our baptisms, the vows of which we just renewed. My only memory is not of the event itself but of a photograph of me as a 4 week old infant being held in the arms of...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | past sermons
Matthew 4:12-23 “Followership” January 26, 2020 We’re following the leader, the leader, the leader. We’re following the leader wherever he may go. So goes the song from the Walt Disney movie of Peter Pan. Leaders are the ones we look up to, sometimes putting them too...
by Federated Church East Arlington | Jan 30, 2020 | past sermons
John 1:29-42 “Then What?” January 19, 2020 What begins quietly enough on an April day in the French countryside soon becomes the ultimate invitation within the darkened theater to “Come and see.” One young man is beckoned to, because of his brother, and the other is...
