The Unknown God Acts 17:22-31
14th of May 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD May 14, 2023 The Unknown God Acts 17:22-31 If you attended public school as a child, you probably remember taking a standardized test. For kids of my era, state testing was done using long scantron sheets with a hundred rows of bubbles marked ABCD with a number two […]
Hope beyond Hope Matthew 26:1-10
9th of April 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD April 9, 2023 Hope beyond Hope Matthew 26:1-10 It started with just a little wobble. The water in the glass on the bedside table sloshed from side to side, like someone had accidentally bumped it. Maybe people rolled over in bed, changing positions before falling back to sleep. […]
To the Streets! Matthew 21:1-11
2nd of April 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore April 2, 2023 To the Streets! Matthew 21:1-11 Hosanna! Hosanna! It is ringing in my ears from our joyful parade this morning. Let’s say it again – Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! You probably know that Hosanna is an old Aramaic […]
Unbound John 11:1-42
26th of March 2023
Cat Goodrich Faith Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD March 26, 2023 Unbound John 11:1-42 I read an article in the Times this week about a restaurant owner named Sal in Phoenix. He has been in business for decades, running a successful sandwich shop – a fixture in the neighborhood, with a daily customer base. The story […]
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 […]