Sermons from October 2019

Sermons from October 2019

The Age of Opportunities

Preacher: Rev. Lynn Casteel-Harper, Minister for Older Adults at The Riverside Church in the City of New York Date: October 27, 2019 Text: Genesis 12:1-9 Quote: “May I suggest that [human] potential for change and growth is much greater than we are willing to admit and that old age be regarded not as the age of stagnation but as the age of opportunities for inner growth?”—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in “To Grow in Wisdom” This past June, a group of…

Communal Grief

Preacher: Pastor Liz Miller Date: October 6, 2019 Text: Lamentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26 There is something that happens when a city or community experiences a tragedy, whether it is the aftereffects of a major weather system, or an act of mass violence, or a painful breach of trust with ripple effects across a town or church. There is a collective memory that is held in relationship to this event, such that it only takes a single word to shift the energy…