Love Your Enemies
Love Your Enemies Feb 26 Luke 6:27-38 and This Morning I Pray for My Enemies by Joy Harjo Sunday February 23, 2025Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again! The Spirit is ahead of us! Welcome however you are joining, in whatever shape you are in, whatever you are bringing today. I offer this prayer from Psalm 19… Last April, […]
Don’t Be Fooled: Doubling Down on Love
Psalm 1 and What Kind of Times Are These by Adrienne Rich February 16, 2025 By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on what is in our tradition the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany. Thank you for being here! I feel especially grateful for you all and this place in this time. I invite […]
Catching People
Catching People? Feb 116 min read Sacred Texts: Luke 5:1-11; Excerpt from Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich This morning, we get to tune into the next chapter of Luke’s continuing story of Christ’s unfolding ministry. Today, we step into Peter’s extraordinary call to follow Jesus. What did Jesus mean by his invitation to […]
Unbreakable Links Between Each of Us
Unbreakable Links Between Each of Us 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a, Luke 4:14-21 and Excerpts from Upstream by Mary Oliver January 26, 2025 By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on what is for us Annual Meeting Sunday! Thank you for getting out of bed! I understand that it would be a good day to stay there. […]
For the Common Good
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and Excerpts from the Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963 January 19th, 2025By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again! I ditched my beautiful Sunday shoes today and I have got my boots on! It’s so beautiful, this blanketed white. Welcome again may you […]
Setting Out
Matthew 2:1-12 and an excerpt from The Neville Collection: All the Books of a Modern Master by Neville GoddardJanuary 5th, 2025By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche I am noting this coming week will be starting my sixth year with you all… Just a reminder for all of us that whatever you are bringing in the room today, […]
Christmas Eve Service
December 24th , 2024 7 p.m. Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche In those days…that’s how the story begins in the Gospel of Luke. In those days of Emperors and authoritative orders, in those days of decrees and greed, in those days of government leading with a clenched fist, dominating, and regulating bodies and livelihoods, squeezing the poor […]
According to Promises Made to Our Ancestors
Luke 1:46b-55 and Ancestors by Ada Limón December 22nd, 2024 By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on what is in our expression of Christianity fourth and final Sunday in Advent. And I know I am not the only one who feels so grateful to be held by rituals, where we mark time together, the […]
Let Your Gentleness Be Known
Philippians 4:4–7 and an Excerpt from Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler December 15th, 2024By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again to what is in our tradition the third Sunday in Advent. Welcome whatever you are bringing, in whatever shape you are in. Thank you for showing up for yourself, for others, for […]
Doing Battle Where We Are Standing
Mark 12:38-44 and Excerpts from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speechesby Audre LordeSunday November 10th, 2024By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche I invite you to join me in a spirit of prayer from Psalm 19. Gracious God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight. Our Rock and our […]