Woodhaven Presbyterian Podcast

Rev. Michael Thompson
Woodhaven Presbyterian Church
January 10, 2010 — Baptism of the Lord Sunday
Luke 3: 15-17, 21-22

Goodbyes come in many different flavors.  There are the kinds that we offer when we’re going to leave for an hour or two, maybe for a week, maybe even a month, but we hope to be together again sometime soon, but we don’t know when.  And then there are the final goodbyes.  It seems to me the older we get the more of those that there are in our lives.  I have a friend who told me this week that he is receiving text messages from his son who is in college.  The new “in” word is “awesome” — everything is “awesome.”  He said I’m just a little worried about the time of night at which the messages are sent!

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Rev. Julie Riley
Woodhaven Presbyterian Church
January 3, 2010 - Epiphany Sunday
Matthew 2: 1-20

In the classic bathrobe Christmas pageant, the Wise Men are always the last to arrive.  And any child can tell you that it was because they were the ones who had the furthest to travel and because they had to stop and ask directions.  When the Wise Men make their entrance you know that the pageant has reached its grand finale, you can gather up all your goodies and wake whoever is sleeping on the pew next to you, and get ready for the final “Amen!”

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Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner
Epiphany Sunday
Isaiah 60: 1-7, 17-18; Matthew 2:1-12

I simply cannot imagine what it must be like to live in Israel or in the Gaza Strip these days.  Rockets exploding in Israeli streets without warning.  Palestinians getting a quick alarm call to gather their kids and get out of the building because another bomb was on its way.  Tanks coming over the border.  Men with guns and masks getting into formation.  Children in both places absolutely traumatized by the never-ending war over religion and land and politics and culture.  I cannot imagine living in “the Holy Land” right now.

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