You get what you get, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get upset.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

When you don't know what you think you should know, it's hard to learn what you need to know. 

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

You can't always get what you want. But with Jesus as beloved, we get what we need.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Christmas has become a monster of a season, but what it comes down to is almost embarrasingly basic. 

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus is painfully, disappointingly local in his saving work. And the woirld's need is massive, endless. How will this possibly do?

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Church on the Hill, Lenox

John helps us anticipate Jesus. But he didn't get everything about the one for whom we wait quite right.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Advent 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. 

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

We've reached the end of the church year, Christ the King Sunday, a tricky feast day.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus 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.

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Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC) 

God is still speaking. 

Monterey Church, UCC

Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)