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  1. “A Year of Little Easters”

    Date: September 7th, 2025 (13th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Matthew 28:1-10 This message was preached during our church’s annual “Gathering Sunday.” A busy Sunday filled with Blessing of our Sunday School, reception of new...

  2. “A Taste for Bitter Honey”

    Date: August 31st, 2025 (12th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Psalm 81:1 & 10-16

  3. “Everything”

    Date: August 17th, 2025 (10th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Matthew 25:31-46

  4. “Invitations, Not Answers”

    Date: August 3rd, 2025 (8th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Matthew 13:31-32, 33 & 44

  5. “Flock of Hope”

    Date: July 20th, 2025 (6th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Romans 12:9-21

  6. “The Plumb Truth”

    Date: July 13th, 2025 (5th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Amos 7:7-17

  7. “By the Marks”

    Date: June 29th, 2025 (3rd Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Acts 6:1-7

  8. “Just Breathe…”

    Date: June 15th, 2025 (1st Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Acts 2:42-47

  9. “Then They Remembered…”

    Date: May 25th, 2025 (6th Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 24:1-9

  10. Climate Change: ‘Befriend, Tend and Mend’*

    Date: May 18th, 2025 (5th Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Matthew 5:1-2 * For this title and sermon, I am indebted to Rabbi Ora Nitkin Kaner and the 2024-2025 EcoPreacher cohort of the BTS Center and Lexington Theological Seminary

  11. “Borne on Vulture’s Wings”*

    Date: May 4th, 2025 (3rd Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): – Genesis 15:9-11 – Leviticus 11:13 – Jeremiah 15:1-3 – Micah 1:16 – Luke 17:31-37 *Title taken from a chapter on vultures in “Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of…

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  12. “Holy Spirit?”

    Date: April 27th, 2025 (2nd Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): John 20:19-23

  13. “Al-le-lu-ia!”

    Date: April 20th, 2025 (Easter Sunday) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 24:1-12

  14. “Parable of the Path”

    Date: March 30th, 2025 (4th Sunday in Lent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): John 5:2-9

  15. “God Sympathy, People Sympathy”

    Date: February 2nd, 2025 (4th Sunday after Epiphany) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Jeremiah 1:4-10

  16. “A Personal Mission Statement”

    Date: January 26th, 2025 (3rd Sunday after Epiphany) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 4:14-21

  17. “A Letter to MLK 2025”

    Date: January 19th, 2025 (2nd Sunday after Epiphany) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Delivered on MLK Sunday 2025

  18. “Goodbye, Umbrella”

    Date: January 12th, 2025 (First Sunday after Epiphany) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 3:15-17 and 21-22

  19. “Filling the Manger”

    Date: December 24th, 2024 (Christmas Eve) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 2:1-20 This brief meditation was delivered at the 5pm Christmas Eve service of Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC)

  20. “Smoothing”

    Date: December 8th, 2024 (2nd Sunday in Advent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 3:1-6

  21. “Not Weighed Down”

    Date: December 1st, 2024 (1st Sunday in Advent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 21:25-36

  22. “Something God Alone Can See”

    Date: November 17th, 2024 (26th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Isaiah 43:16-21

  23. “Incline My Ears”

    Date: November 10th, 2024 (25th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Mark 12:38-44

  24. “Permissions for God’s Silence, Distance”

    Date: October 20th, 2024 (22nd Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Job 23:1-9, 16-17

  25. “Our Hands”

    Date: October 13th, 2024 (21st Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Acts 3:1-10 This week we begin our 2025 Annual Stewardship Campaign, celebrating the ways we’re using “Our Hands” at CCC.

  26. “Filling the Chalice”

    Date: October 6th, 2024 (20th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

  27. “Circle of Care”

    Date: September 22nd, 2024 (18th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): John 13:33-35 During this service we relaunched our “Circle of Care” ministry to give structure to our church’s overall “culture of care,” as we ask one another: “what...

  28. “Tending the Fire”

    Date: September 15th, 2024 (17th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): James 3:1-12

  29. “In Love with the Beloved”

    Date: September 8th, 2024 (16th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Psalm 146

  30. “As Many Creatives as Possible”

    Date: September 1st, 2024 (15th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Exodus 31:1-11 Delivered on the Sunday before Labor Day, 9/1/2024

  31. “Fragrant”

    Date: August 11th, 2024 (12th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Ephesisans 4:25-5:2

  32. “Even Though”

    Date: July 21st, 2024 (9th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): selected readings about discernment

  33. “Sifting Well”

    Date: July 7th, 2024 (7th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): selected readings about discernment

  34. “Holy Disappointment”

    Date: June 30th, 2024 (6th Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 23:44-46

  35. “Is It Healing?”

    Date: June 16th, 2024 (3rd Sunday after Pentecost) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Matthew 4:23-5:3 This sermon was preach as part of the annual healing service of Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) in Charlotte, VT

  36. “Messy, Imperfect”

    Date: May 5th, 2024 (6th Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Mark 5:21 and 25-34

  37. “Unceasing Prayer: Loving One Another”

    Date: April 21st, 2024 (4th Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 John 3:16-24 Part 3 of a 3-part sermon series: “Unceasing Prayer”

  38. “Unceasing Prayer: Table & Word”

    Date: April 14th, 2024 (3rd Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Luke 24:26b-38 Part 2 of a 3-part sermon series: “Unceasing Prayer”

  39. “Unceasing Prayer: Breathe”

    Date: April 7th, 2024 (2nd Sunday of Easter) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 and John 20:19-23 Part 1 of a 3-part sermon series: “Unceasing Prayer”

  40. “Guiding Light”

    Date: March 31st, 2024 (Easter Sunday) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): John 20:1-18 Happy Easter!!

  41. “The Lovely Bouquet”

    Date: March 3rd, 2024 (Third Sunday of Lent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Exodus 20:1-17

  42. “Radical Candor”

    Date: February 25th, 2024 (Second Sunday of Lent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Mark 8:34-38

  43. “Lifting”

    Date: February 18th, 2024 (First Sunday of Lent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Psalm 25:1-10

  44. “Ascend, Encounter, See”

    Date: February 11th, 2024 (Epiphany 6/Transfiguration) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Mark 9:2-8

  45. “This Liberty”

    Date: January 28th, 2024 (Epiphany 4) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

  46. “Learning to Let Go”

    Date: January 21st, 2024 (Epiphany 3) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

  47. “A Certain Kind of Fire”

    Date: January 14th, 2024 (Epiphany 2) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): 1 Samuel 3:1-10

  48. “Afloat on the Loving Breath of God”

    Date: January 7th, 2023 (Epiphany 1) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Genesis 1:1-5 and Mark 1:4-11

  49. “One Word”

    Date: December 24th, 2023 (Christmas Eve) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): The Christmas Story

  50. “Field Guide to Waiting”

    Date: December 3rd, 2023 (First Sunday in Advent) Message Delivered at: Charlotte Congregational Church (UCC) Key Text(s): Psalm 25:1-10

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