July 5, 2020 The 5th Sunday after Pentecost Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Lectionary 14 Pastor Amanda L. Warner Zoom WorshipMatthew 11:25-30 Which Yoke? Last week I heard many people celebrating that a three-day weekend was coming up, a break from their work. Of course, this three day “Fourth of July” weekend was not going to look…
June 28, 2020 The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Lectionary 13, Year A Pastor Amanda L. Warner Zoom Worship Jeremiah 28:5-9 Not Back to Normal When I made the decision back in April to postpone my sabbatical, I comforted myself with some very unrealistic ideas. I thought, well, maybe, if the high school…
Today Bishop Hazelwood gave a sermon for all within the New England Synod
June 14, 2020 The 2nd Sunday after Pentecost Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Lectionary 11, Year A Pastor Amanda L. Warner Zoom Worship Matthew 9:35-10-23 New Ventures, New Paths, New Perils O God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us…
May 31, 2020 The Day of Pentecost Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Year A Pastor Amanda L. Warner Zoom Worship 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 Acts 2:1-21 On Fire “Pastor, the youth group needs your help.” That’s what the youth leader at the church that I was working at said. “Of course,” I answered, “What do they need.” “Well,”…
May 24, 2020 Ascension Day (transferred) Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Acts 1:1-11 Pastor Amanda Warner Zoom Worship Luke 24:44-53 How Ascension Day Lifted Me Up About a month ago, I deleted almost everything off of my calendar. With the tap of a finger, away went basketball practices and basketball games, flag football practices, soccer practices and…
May 17, 2020 The Sixth Sunday of Easter Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Year A Pastor Amanda L. Warner Silver Linings Probably my favorite book when I was a preteen and early teenager was Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. I had been given a copy of the book years before I…
May 10, 2020 The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Year A The Rev. Amanda L. Warner Zoom Worship 1 Peter 2:2-10 Just before I left Prince of Peace to come here to Emmanuel, Prince of Peace celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. I had worked with a group of people for more than a…
May 3, 2020 The Fourth Sunday of Easter Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Year A Pastor Amanda L. Warner Zoom Worship Psalm 23 A Psalm for the Living, a Psalm for Today King David was a shepherd. That’s how he started his life. Tending to his father, Jesse’s, flocks on the hills around Bethlehem. He had to…