Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC
267 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLiz is the pastor of two United Church of Christ congregations, both in western Massachusetts, one in Monterey and the other in Lenox, and this is a podcast of the preaching from those two pulpits.
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Episodes
Ties that Gently Bind
May 14, 2023 11:29 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBThe church isn't abut heroics, it's about creating communities where heroics are less in demand. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Object Permanence`
May 07, 2023 11:45 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBJesus is going, but he is also staying. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Get Real, Close
April 16, 2023 11:38 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThe gospel has embodied imperitives. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Resurrection Day 2023
April 09, 2023 11:39 - 16 minutes - 15.9 MBHope comes calling, so get ready to move. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Palm Sunday 2023
April 02, 2023 11:22 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBReal time. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Attachment Theory
March 26, 2023 11:44 - 22 minutes - 21 MBIs it possible Jesus got attached to this life? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Not Finished
March 19, 2023 12:34 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MBJesus has come to complete the creation as it is not yet finished. It's going well, of course. But it could be better. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Barely
March 12, 2023 12:21 - 23 minutes - 22.8 MBGod can be not a lot to go on it, but enough. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
March 05, 2023 12:53 - 21 minutes - 20.9 MBGod's people are always called out of the familair. And God's people are also always out there. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Divided Knowledge
February 28, 2023 13:14 - 20 minutes - 19.8 MBLent is a good time to put it all back together, these shards of knowledge and suspicion, into a whole renewed wisdom. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Trans Figure
February 19, 2023 13:19 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBIt's Transfiguration Sunday, and maybe we're ready. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Do to Be
February 12, 2023 13:11 - 24 minutes - 23.4 MBThe church: we're supposed to be doing something, right? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Critical Thinking
February 05, 2023 13:09 - 20 minutes - 20 MBDon't hold back. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Get Upset
January 22, 2023 13:21 - 24 minutes - 24.3 MBYou get what you get, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get upset. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Wheel in a Wheel
January 15, 2023 12:31 - 23 minutes - 23 MBWhen you don't know what you think you should know, it's hard to learn what you need to know. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Dashed Expectations
January 08, 2023 12:35 - 18 minutes - 18.4 MBYou can't always get what you want. But with Jesus as beloved, we get what we need. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Back to Basics
December 18, 2022 12:35 - 15 minutes - 15.2 MBChristmas has become a monster of a season, but what it comes down to is almost embarrasingly basic. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
A Feature, Not a Bug
December 11, 2022 12:34 - 23 minutes - 22.8 MBJesus is painfully, disappointingly local in his saving work. And the woirld's need is massive, endless. How will this possibly do? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox
A Divine Comedy
December 04, 2022 12:38 - 22 minutes - 22.3 MBJohn helps us anticipate Jesus. But he didn't get everything about the one for whom we wait quite right. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Free Cow
November 27, 2022 12:38 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBAdvent present us with the challenge of hope--a full recogntion of what's dreadful about the world while also fully assured that God is coming, while also here, to restore, renew, and reign in love. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Round to the End
November 20, 2022 12:04 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBWe've reached the end of the church year, Christ the King Sunday, a tricky feast day. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Reality Will Save Us
November 13, 2022 12:19 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBJesus warns that the world won't go easy on us. Isaiah envisions a new reality that will have worked all that out. Ours is to persevere toward this point. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Comma
November 06, 2022 13:19 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBGod is still speaking. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Being with Being
October 23, 2022 11:33 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MBPrayer is a moemnt alone with your God, and sometimes that's as hard a things as there is. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Progress
October 16, 2022 11:29 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBJacob made progress, leaving Esau behind. Are we okay with that? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
No Thanks, But Thanks
October 09, 2022 11:31 - 21 minutes - 20.5 MBGod's presence shows up in places least expected and places where we perhaps we least want to be. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Liminal Spaces
October 02, 2022 12:02 - 19 minutes - 18.6 MBWhere there is, turns out, either nothing or everything. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Right of Redemption
September 25, 2022 11:11 - 16 minutes - 15.8 MBLook for hopeless causes for the right of redemption might be yours. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Mismanagement
September 18, 2022 12:24 - 23 minutes - 22.3 MBThe church has squandered our wealth. What now to do? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Captive Minds
September 11, 2022 12:12 - 25 minutes - 24.1 MBFreedom is a terrible bruned. No wonder so many seek a cage. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Unassorted Jib Jabs
August 28, 2022 12:37 - 19 minutes - 19.8 MBThe old ship of Zion moves slowly, but there's room for everyone. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
And Twice on Sundays
August 21, 2022 11:55 - 20 minutes - 20 MBKeeping the sabbath is as much about liberation as it is about rest. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Lit on Fire
August 14, 2022 12:32 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBJesus is tough to match moods with in August. Let's see if we can try,. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
You Might Miss This
July 24, 2022 21:18 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MBA moment arrives, and all your readying must be done. Now you just receive. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Unashamed
July 24, 2022 21:03 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBTeach us to pray, the disciples said. Not how, or why, what to pray. Instead simply, Teach us to pray. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Most People
July 10, 2022 12:25 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBBe the Good Samaritan. Be the man who set out. There will come opporutnities for you be one or the other, and both make for good. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
The How Is the What
July 03, 2022 12:15 - 20 minutes - 20.1 MB...and the what is the why. Sharing Jesus' love isn't a means to an end, it's the manifestation of the end. You don't get a rpize for doing it, it is itself the prize. Love. Love in action. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Determined
June 26, 2022 22:27 - 20 minutes - 20.3 MBThe end is decided but how you get there is another question. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Juneteenth
June 19, 2022 12:41 - 22 minutes - 21.8 MBMonterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Clean Up This Mess!
June 05, 2022 12:19 - 25 minutes - 21.6 MBThe church is more weed than wheat, as if right. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Wandering But Not Lost
May 22, 2022 12:25 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBNot all who wander are lost. But some are. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Thanks for Nothing, Peter
May 15, 2022 12:04 - 18 minutes - 18 MBPeter is pulling a thread that could unravel the whole garment... Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Hysterics
May 08, 2022 12:39 - 23 minutes - 22.3 MBTabitha--she who was raised. Montery Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
The Worst Thing You've Ever Done
May 01, 2022 11:52 - 20 minutes - 19.5 MBYou aren't that. So listen in peace and reassurance. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Call and Response
April 24, 2022 12:28 - 24 minutes - 23.8 MBIf nothing else, respond: words to live by. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Resurrection 2022
April 17, 2022 11:58 - 19 minutes - 18.6 MBRemember your way back into hope. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Sorry to Say
April 10, 2022 12:23 - 19 minutes - 19.4 MBPalm Sunday is supposed to be a plesant celebration. I'm sorry to say, however... Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
You Smell
April 03, 2022 12:02 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBEmbarrassing, intimate, smelling is indiscrimate--but also exclusive. With its insistence on the body, smelling demands, "You had to be there." Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Fool for Love
March 27, 2022 12:18 - 20 minutes - 19.5 MBI wonder where you are in this familiar story. Montery Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Now's the Time
March 20, 2022 11:48 - 20 minutes - 19.9 MBTime to get serious. No more Airbnb for us. Time to plant roots and bear fruit. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)