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Responding to Evil: “I Will Raise Up Shepherds” Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont July 22, 2018 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 23; Jeremiah 23:1-6; Mark 6:30-34 Greeting from the July 22, 2018 Service Good morning, and…
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Category: Past Sermons
Tags: Action, Calling, Caring for God's Creation, Centering Prayer/Contemplative Practice, Following the Way, Justice, Nonviolence, Oneness, Peace, Resilience, The Church, The Way of Love, Transforming the World
Do Not Fret—It Leads Only to Evil Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont July 15, 2018 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 37; I Corinthians 1:25-28; Mark 6:14-29 Recently a Strafford neighbor emailed me a question: “When does…
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Category: Past Sermons
Tags: Action, Calling, Caring for God's Creation, Centering Prayer/Contemplative Practice, Following the Way, Inner Peace, Inner Transformation, Justice, Metanoia, Peace, The Church, The Way of Love, Transforming the World
I Have Made You a Sentinel: Give Them Warning Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont July 8, 2018 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 120 & 123; Ezekiel 33:1-11; Mark 6:1-16 Last week we heard the Apostle Paul…
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Category: Past Sermons, Uncategorized
Tags: Action, Beloved Community, Calling, Caring for God's Creation, Following the Way, Inner Transformation, Metanoia, The Church, The Way of Love, Transforming the World
Singing the Spirit’s Song in a Strange Land Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont July 1, 2018 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 137; I Corinthians 12-14; Acts 2:1-6 Twenty-five hundred years ago Psalm 137 asked, “How…
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Category: Past Sermons, Uncategorized
Tags: Action, Beloved Community, Calling, Caring for God's Creation, Following the Way, Oneness, Resilience, The Church, The Way of Love, Transforming the World
Crossing to the Other Side Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont June 24, 2018 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 107; II Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41 Earth is a far gentler planet now than at other times in…
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Category: Past Sermons
Tags: Action, Beloved Community, Developmental and Spiritual Growth, Following the Way, Inner Peace, Inner Transformation, Kenosis, Metanoia, Nonviolence, Oneness, Peace, The Church, The Way of Love, Transforming the World
The Smallest of Seeds: Making High the Low Tree Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont June 17, 2018 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 92; Ezekiel 17:22-24; Mark 4:26-34 Yesterday at recycling someone told me that he was…
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Made Visible in Our Bodies Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont June 3, 2018 Second Sunday after Pentecost Psalm 139; II Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23 – 3:6 How are we to live in this world that is…
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Declaring the Things That Are to Come Rev. Thomas Cary Kinder United Church of Strafford, Vermont May 20, 2018 Pentecost Psalm 104; Acts 2:1-17, 40-47; John 16:13 Professor Carlos Baker was my advisor in college. He was a New Englander…
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I think about Bill Coffin often, of course, as pastors of this church will do for a long time to come. One of my favorite stories about him is from his Yale chaplaincy days. He would ask young atheists to…
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