Latest Lenox Podcast Episodes
Home Sick
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - July 12, 2020 11:44 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCOVID continues to keep us at a distance from one another, and gathering outdoors or online. Cast out of our sanctuaries which have long sustained us, what we're left with might not adequately sustain us. What are we to do? Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Inappropriate
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - July 05, 2020 11:07 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhat are we to make of the slow (but sure) work of salvation and redemption in our midst? How about this: come as we are, receive as we need, serve as we can, and most of all rejoice in the Lord. Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Thanks to Alchemy for music! Buy the alb...
God Is Still Speaking
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - June 28, 2020 11:17 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThat God is still speaking shouldn't be a radical notion. It requires us still to listen. But maybe that's more than some people would want...? Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Asking for It
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - June 21, 2020 11:04 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt's often said fear is the opposite of faith. I suspect grievance is the opposite of faith. The aggrieved are resentful, not faithful. So, which is it for you? Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Time Out of Joint
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - June 14, 2020 12:39 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis is a sermon for the start of ordinary time, this long season ahead about the only ordinary thing we can hope for in coming months. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Wade in the Water
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - June 07, 2020 11:20 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA week of unrest gives us a chance at new creation. Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
When Once-Slaves Prophesy
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - May 31, 2020 11:10 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt's been a terrible week. The anxiety of the pandemic and spectacular acts of police violence against Black Americas, all under the watch of national leadership that is useless at best and cruel at worst, combined to make rage and fear the norm. Oh, and it's Pentecost, so maybe there's hope...?...
Missing You
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - May 24, 2020 11:48 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAscension day remembers when Jesus left the world apparently the last time, a separation that feels especially severing in the age of COVID19. Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
What Time Is It?
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - May 17, 2020 11:38 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsStaying at home during COVID19 might have us awash in time. That's more stressful than it might at first seem. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church, UCC
Like Newborn Infants
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - May 10, 2020 00:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJesus felt God as abiding in him and him as abiding in God. How might sheltering in place feel different if we turned to the possibility that we might also abide in God and God might also abide in us? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Good Shepherd, Good Sheep
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - May 03, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGood Shepherd Sunday shows up the time every year. Is there anything new to say about it? Actually, is there anything new at all? Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Journey from an Armchair
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - April 26, 2020 12:47 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe Son of God became man so man might become God. So said Athanasius of Alexandria in the 4th century. Maybe this time fo suspended time might renew our so becoming. Monterey Church (UCC) Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Text and Texture
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - April 19, 2020 00:54 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsResurrection living suggests we're to be present in body as well as spirit with one another. The coronavirus insists upon something else. What to do then? Monterey Church, UCC Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
Resurrection Sunday 2020
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - April 12, 2020 12:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCrisis is opportunity because Christ is always one of our options. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church (UCC)
Palm Sunday 2020
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - April 05, 2020 11:28 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPalm Sunday is supposed to be a festival day. We're supposed to gather and to wave palm fronds and shout, "Hosanna" to the one who saves us from that from which actually--and pressingly--need to be saved. Not so this year. This year, we shelter in place, prisoners of a virus, which casts into ...
Christ Would Make Monsters of Us All
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - March 29, 2020 10:08 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur faith demands that we work in the world to ease suffering no matter at what cost to ourselves. It also invites to see that death comes to nothing in the life of God into which all are enveloped and embraced. As we face a world newly vulnerable to death with the coronavirus spreading so fast,...
The Ethereal and the Earthy Real
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - March 21, 2020 23:09 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe is the second partial worship service we're posting on-line. This, because of Coronavirus having us stay at home. Social distancing is a particular challenge for the church, but internet-based worship might have us all the more aware of the blessing of one another. The first portion of th...
Going Viral
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - March 14, 2020 20:35 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCoronavirus is having us exercise caution about gathering in groups. For the small congregations of Lenox and Monterey, we do plan to hold worship though we know many of our members will stay home on Sunday. Here's a way to participate via podcast. To follow along with the Call to Worship and Pr...
Radio Free World
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - March 09, 2020 17:48 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhat happens when there's no more frontier, no more unmapped territory to strike out into in search of the next thing, that "something new"? Is decadence our only option? Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church (UCC)
The Big Why
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - March 02, 2020 14:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHere's a Sunday for the 1st Sunday of Lent, an attempt to hear the stories of Adam & Eve, and Jesus and the devil, as if for the first time. Sometimes familiar stories are the hardest ones to hear. Monterey Church Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)
The Wild Divine
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - February 24, 2020 13:38 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn the irrepressibility of the human spirit--or is it the pervasive, penetrative Holy Spirit? Or some combination of the two? And sorry about the cough at then end of this episode!! I thought to mic was off, and I'm too lazy to go back an correct it. (That and I have Ash Wednesday services tom...
A Simple Plan?
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - February 16, 2020 20:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe're still with Jesus has he preaches his Sermon on the Mount, and what started out as promising abounding blessing now seems like quite a heavy lift. Can you manage it? Monterey Church Church on the Hill, Lenox UCC
Thanks for the Side-Eye
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - February 10, 2020 18:54 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsChristianity has been thought as a dangerously lawless enterprise. After all, if everything comes of God's grace, then what does it matter how we live? Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) Monterey Church
To Believe or to Enact
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - February 04, 2020 02:18 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe could exhaust ourselves trying to grow the church or even to "save"the church. How much more delightful would it be, though, if we were simply to be the church. That would be its own appeal. Monterey Church Church on the Hill, Lenox
Would You Like to Come to Church with Me?
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - January 27, 2020 22:44 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJesus gathered disciples who in turn were to gather other. What does that mean for us? Evangelism is no easy prospect, especially for those of us in the mainline church, and especially in a world where there's no shortage of people "selling" something. How then to do it, and why? Monterey Chur...
Our 251st Year
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - January 19, 2020 23:04 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsChurch on the Hill is one of the most photographed meetinghouses in New England. So goes the legend. But what does it mean that it's not necessarily conducive to the on-going life of the church? Church on the Hill, Lenox
Tender Shepherd
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - January 14, 2020 21:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLittle churches might seem an ineffectual way to make a change in the world--to improve things or influence things for the better. Consider, though, the gentle servant of Isaiah's imagining, or the gentle Christ who comes though expected to be harsh and decisive. Maybe little churches are just t...
Christmas Present
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - January 07, 2020 18:51 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhy would the transcendent choose to submit to immanence? Church on the Hill, Lenox
Anti-Semitism and the Church
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - January 07, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAnti-Semitism is like a virus in the brain that humanity just can't kick. The Church bears some responsibility for its perennially infecting us. Here's a sermon that makes a case against it as a habit of mind and a violation of our faith and our humanity. Monterey Church
Christmas Eve
Rev. Liz Goodman: Lenox & Monterey UCC - January 07, 2020 10:53 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsChristmas Eve comes with a lot of expectations. People bring to the service of lessons and carols a desire to feel a certain way, to be made to believe in magic and unadulterated happiness. This sermon won't necessarily enchant you into the Christmas spirit you might have felt as a child. You wo...
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