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Not Back To Normal – Lectionary 13 – 6-28-2020

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…

On Fire – Pentecost – 5-31-2020

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,”…

How Ascension Day Lifted Me Up – Ascension Day – 5-24-2020

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…

Silver Linings – 5-17-2020

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…

A Church is a People – 5-10-2020

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…

A Psalm for the Living, a Psalm for Today

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…

Blinded by Hope – 4-26-2020 – Easter 3

April 26, 2020 The Third Sunday of Easter Emmanuel, Norwood, MA Luke 24:13-35 Pastor Amanda L. Warner Zoom Worship Blinded by Hope Our gospel reading for today is one of my favorite stories in the whole Bible. And it was made even more of a favorite last year when I shared it with the First…