The Adversary Matthew 4:1-11
24th of February 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD February 24, 2023 The Adversary Matthew 4:1-11 Just over a decade ago, I spent a week working in a garden on the Isle of Mull, off the coast of Scotland in the Hebrides. The garden was a windswept hill overlooking the sea – on an inlet of granite […]
The Lighthouse Matthew 17
19th of February 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD February 19, 2023 The Lighthouse Matthew 17 A couple of summers ago, Dary, the girls and I visited the Owl’s Head lighthouse on the Maine coast, near Rockland. We brought sandwiches and ate them on a picnic blanket in the grass, and the girls clamored around on the […]
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12
29th of January 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD January 29, 2022 Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12 About fifty years ago, a psychologist at Stanford named Dr. Walter Mischel devised an experiment to examine the relationship between self-control and success. The results shaped research and changed teaching and parenting for decades. […]
How We Prepare
4th of December 2022
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD December 4, 2022 How We Prepare Matthew 3:1-12 Dary grew up in Maine, which means he has spent a lot of time downhill skiing. He was on the ski team in high school, skied on weekends through college, and even worked as a ski instructor for a winter […]
Begin at the End
27th of November 2022
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD November 27, 2022 Begin at the End Matthew 24:36-44 Maddie got a Choose Your Own Adventure book for Christmas last year – do you remember these books? It’s a story with many different plotlines all in one book. As you read, you decide after each page how you […]
The Promise of Renewal
13th of November 2022
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD November 13, 2022 The Promise of Renewal Isaiah 65:17-25 When I was serving a church in Birmingham, the Equal Justice Initiative opened their National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative, or EJI as it’s called, is Bryan Stevenson’s law firm that seeks […]
Church Reformed, Always Reforming
30th of October 2022
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD October 30, 2022 Church Reformed, Always Reforming 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 First, a history lesson! Today is Reformation Sunday, when Protestant churches around the world celebrate and remember the men and women who challenged the Catholic church and eventually broke away from it, creating a new way of following Christ and […]
It Takes a Village
23rd of October 2022
Cat Goodrich October 23,2022 Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD It Takes a Village Joel 2:23-32 I have a friend who, when her kids were little and still a bit squirmy and rambunctious, remembers one Sunday when she and her family just barely made it to church. They were just a little bit late, and once […]
Why Does It Have to be Hard?
9th of October 2022
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD October 9, 2022 Why Does It Have to be Hard? 2 Kings 5:1-15c, Luke 17:11-19 In November of last year, Disney released a film that swept the nation…at least, every household with a child between the ages of 3 and 13 – the movie is called Encanto. A […]
You Gotta Have Faith
2nd of October 2022
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD October 2, 2022 You Gotta Have Faith Luke 17:5-10 Our passage this morning needs a bit of context, because it begins in the middle of a conversation between Jesus and his disciples – and also because the text could possibly go into a narrow little file I have […]