This Week in Worship Sunday, December 28 10:30am On behalf of all of the staff here at First Parish and our families, I want to wish all of you a Christmas full of joy and a New Year full of excitement and good health. May you feel the blessing of the Spirit during this holiday … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/26/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse If someone were able to follow you around for a day during this season of Christmas what would they say that you were about? Would they be able to describe how you make meaning in this culture of ours? Of course there is … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/19/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, December 14, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse So my task at home this week is to put that plastic shrink wrap up on the windows before it gets cold. When I am doing it, I always think of the folks in substandard housing, and especially the homeless of Boston. This … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/12/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, December 7th, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse It was early December a couple of years back, and I had just picked my oldest daughter up from daycare. As we drove towards home she let me in on what the hot topic was in her class that day. “Bella celebrates Hanukkah … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 12/5/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse Most of us know the story of Plymouth Rock and how when the folks getting off the Mayflower needed to come onto land they stepped on it. If you listen the way folks talk about that stone, you would think that by stepping … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 11/28/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse What a wonderful weekend it was at First Parish, the excitement at the auction, which showed that the theology of abundance is alive and well here. Having Rev. Weller fill our pulpit on Sunday was a thrill for me and I know that … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 11/21/2014

Saturday, November 15, 2014 It’s finally here! The First Parish FunRaiser is this Saturday, starting at 7pm in the Parish Hall. Your $10 entry fee gets you one beverage, appetizers, desserts, live music, laughter, community socializing, and the opportunity to bid on many unique and exciting items in both a live and silent auction format. … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 11/14/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, November 9, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse This Sunday : The Divinity of Forgiveness In some versions of the Lord’s Prayer people ask to have their trespasses forgiven, others their debts and still others ask to have their sins forgiven, all then say that they will forgive those who have … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 11/7/2014

Don’t Forget to Change Your Clocks! This Week in Worship Sunday, November 2, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse The Rev. David O. Rankin, one of my childhood ministers, wrote a piece about the dangers of preaching politics from the pulpit. “In 1968, I delivered a sermon prior to the presidential election. It was not a … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 10/31/2014

This Week in Worship Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:30am in the Meetinghouse James Joyce wrote in Ulysses “God is a shout in the street,” I must admit I always liked that understanding, it is of course not theologically orthodox, but I think that is the point. Ours is a faith that calls us to find … Continue reading Your Weekly Link – News and Updates 10/24/2014