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Sermon Audio: What Changed Peter?
This sermon was recorded on Sunday, April 11, 2010. To listen to this Sermon Audio recording Click Here
Sermon Audio: Liberation, Formation, Proclamation
This sermon was recorded on Sunday, March 28, 2010. To listen to this Sermon Audio recording Click Here
Sermon Audio: What Language Shall I Borrow?
This sermon was recorded on Sunday, March 21, 2010. To listen to this Sermon Audio recording Click Here.
Sermon Audio: The Parable of the Elder Brother
This sermon was recorded on Sunday, March 14, 2010. To listen to this Sermon Audio recording Click Here.
Sermon Audio: This is Your Bonus Year
This sermon was recorded on March 7, 2010. To listen to the audio recording of this sermon Click Here.
Sermon Audio: Waiting For God
This sermon was recorded on February 28, 2010. To listen to the audio recording of this sermon Click Here.
March/April Newsletter Released
Hot off the press! Read all about Easter and other good stuff. Check out the March/April newsletter.
Founder’s Day 2010: “The Reverend Mr. Tufts”
Today I want to offer you an interpretation of the earliest years of this congregation. It’s certainly not the only interpretation possible, but it makes sense to me and it is, I think, quite instructive. It has become cliché to say that those who do not learn from the past are bound to repeat it. Cliché notwithstanding, it is in the hope of gaining some useful insights from our past that I ask you to turn your attention for a few minutes to the very brief career of the first minister settled in this town, the Reverend Mr. Joshua Tufts.
Tufts was not the first minister to preach to the people of Naticook – as this area was first known. There are indications that at least three ministers preached here in the 1730’s. Nor was Joshua Tufts the townspeople’s first choice for a settled minister. Mr. Josiah Brown and Mr. Isaac Merrill (see Rev. Newhall’s Address) both were extended calls to settle here, but both declined. Maybe they were just not the right men for the times. Maybe Joshua Tufts was. The story goes like this… Read the rest of this entry »
Sermon Audio: Transfiguration
This sermon was recorded on February 14, 2010. To listen to the audio recording of this sermon Click Here.
