Sermons

The Congregational Church of Topsfield

06/06/2021: "Living the Questions" - Martin Riekert

05/30/2021: "The Time of Ignorance" - Martin Riekert

05/23/2021: "Pentecost Homily" - Martin Riekert

05/09/2021: "Neither There...Nor There" - Martin Riekert

Scripture passage: Exodus 33: 7-11

05/02/2021: "Running Out of Blue Paint"- Martin Riekert

Scripture passage: Genesis 4: 8-16

04/25/2021: "Unperceived Existence" - Rev. Marilyn Kendrix

Scripture passages: Isaiah 53: 7-8, 56: 3-5, Acts 8: 26-40

04/18/2021: "Earth, Air, Water, Fire" - Rev. Amy Bruch

Scripture passages: Genesis 1: 9; 2: 7, Psalm 23:2, Isaiah 43:2

04/11/2021: "The Road Untraveled" - Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 28: 16-20

04/04/2021: "(N)Ever Given" - Martin Riekert

Scripture Passages: Luke 9: 12-17, Mark 16: 1-8

03/28/2021: "Be A Pain.." - Larry Atkins

Scripture Passage: Matthew 21: 1-11

03/21/2021: "The Third Thing Learning to Sing" - Rev. Martin Riekert
'Scripture Passage: Matthew 16: 1-12

03/14/2021: "The Second Thing" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 26: 6-11

03/07/2021: "The First Thing" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passages: Romans 12: 1-3 I Corinthians 13: 4-7, 11

02/28/2021: "Reset" - Larry Atkins

Scripture Passage: Exodus 33: 12-16

02/21/2021: "Repentance and Opportunity - Engaging the Climate Crisis"

Scripture Passage: Genesis 9: 8-17, Mark 1: 9-15

02/14/2021: "QAnon" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Revelation 19: 1-10, 21: 1-8

02/07/2021: "The Grant" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Genesis 32: 22-33:4

01/31/2021: "Connections" - Larry Atkins

Scripture Passage: Matthew 4: 1-11

01/24/2021: "To Light A Candle" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 5: 13-16, 43-48

01/17/2021: "A Tale of Two Meals" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 15: 32-39

A reading from John Crossan's book, The Historical Jesus here.

01/10/2021: "Epiphany?" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 2: 1-12

01/03/2021: "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar" - Rev. Amy Bruch

Scripture Passage: Mark 14: 3-9

12/13/2020: "Now You See" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Luke 1: 46-55, 2:28-33, Luke 4: 16-19

12/06/2020: "Survival of..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 10: 34-39

11/29/2020: "People Get Ready" - Rev. Amy Bruch

Scripture Passages: I Corinthians 1: 3-9

Mark 13: 24-37

11/22/2020: "Not Affordable" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Romans 14: 13-23

11/15/2020: "Eternity and Immediacy" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passages: John 1: 1-5, Mark 1: 14-15

11/08/2020: "A Way Forward..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Philippians 2: 1-4

10/25/2020: "The Transformative Power of..." - Rev. Amy Bruch

Scripture Passages: Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-7 Luke 17: 11-19 10/18/2020: "Syrian Sesame" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passages: Ecclesiastes 9: 13-18 Isaiah 61: 1-4

10/11/2020: "Bunkle Up" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 7: 24-29

10/04/2020: "Breaking Bread" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passages: Mark 2: 13-17; I Corinthians 11: 17-26

09/27/2020: "A Search Committee Snow Job" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: I Corinthians 7: 2-16

09/20/2020: "This Being Human Is A Guest House" - Rev. Amy Bruch

Scripture Passages: 2 Kings 4: 8-10 Acts 16: 1-15.

09/13/2020: "Settled Nomads" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passages: Psalm 90: 1-2, 13-17 Mark 1: 35-39

09/06/2020: "A Quaint Name" - Rev. Martin Riekert

Scripture Passage: Matthew 20: 1-16

08/30/2020: "Easing the Burden" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/23/2020: "That Elusive Concept" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/16/2020: "On Leaving the Cow Path" - Rev. Amy Bruch

08/09/2020: "God(s) and Plague" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/02/2020: "Interpreting the Present Time"- Rev. Martin Riekert

07/26/2020: "How To Weed An Onion Bed"- Rev. Martin Riekert

07/19/2020: "The Family of Things" - Rev. Amy Bruch

07/12/2020: "Treadmill" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/05/2020: "The Second American Republic" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/28/2020: "Exceptionalism" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/21/2020: "An Idiotic Business Model" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/14/2020: "Life In A Peaceful Kindom" - Rev. Amy Bruch

06/07/2020: "Jerusalem! Washington!" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/31/2020: "Disruption" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/24/2020: "A Bag To Put It All " - Rev. Amy Bruch

05/10/2020: "Prophet of the Pandemic" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/03/2020: "Diversity and Plurality" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/26/2020: "Days Like These" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/19/2020: "Lemonese" - Rev. Amy Bruch

04/12/2020: "The Return to Normal" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/05/2020: "The Parade Is Essential Business" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/29/2020: "In Exile in a Familiar Place" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/22/2020: "Sanctuary" - Rev. Amy Bruch

03/08/2020: "Between $27.63 and Around $1 Million" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/01/2020: "A Corona Lent" - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/23/2020: "Beginning to see the light" - Rev. Rona Tyndall

02/16/2020: "Everything is connected" - Rev. Amy Bruch

02/09/2020: "Wrestling with God and with humans" - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/02/2020: "This Way or The Highway" - Rev. Martin Riekert

01/26/2020: "Ordinary Time" - Rev. Martin Riekert

01/19/2020: "Work to Do" - Rev. Amy Bruch

01/12/2020: "Watersheds" - Rev. Martin Riekert

01/05/2020: "Wise Men?" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/29/2019: "Stay Awhile" - Rev. Amy Bruch

12/22/2019: "The Friendly Beasts" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/08/2019: "Flock Management 101" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/01/2019: "SETI" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/24/2019: "Blessing: Anyone Can Do It" - Rev. Amy Bruch

11/17/2019: "Grace Redux" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/10/2019: "Smoke and Medals" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/03/2019: "We Better Get This Right" - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/27/2019: Faithworks 2019 Mission Trip Reflections- Faithworks leaders

10/13/2019: "It Takes A Fairbooth" - Rev. Amy Bruch

10/06/2019: "Carbondale" - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/29/2019: "Making Your Own Sabbath Box" - Rev. Amy Bruch

09/22/2019: "Good people pay back their debt. Smart people pay theirs forward"- Larry Atkins

09/15/2019: "Fairbooth....Meetinghouse" - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/08/2019: "Closing the Garage Door" - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/01/2019: "Dream on" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/25/2019: "Walking the Walk" - Rev. Amy Bruch

08/18/2019: "The Hope of A Mustard Seed" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/11/2019: "The Four Horsemen" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/04/2019: "Finding Words To Live By" - Rev. William Main

07/28/2019: "Living the Big Questions" - Rev. Amy Bruch

07/21/2019: "The Endgame or An Endgame" - Rasheed Townes

07/14/2019: "Searching for Sunday" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/07/2019: "A Clever Dodge" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/30/2019: "The Hands of Hope" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/23/2019: "Truth and Reconciliation (and Sometimes Forgiveness)"

Rev. Martin Riekert

06/16/2019: "The Road Not (Yet) Travelled" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/09/2019: "It's In Our Hands" - Rev. Amy Bruch

06/02/2019: "A.M.D.G." - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/26/2019: "No One Ever Thanked Me" - Larry Atkins

05/19/2019: "We Believe in Mystery" - Rev. Amy Bruch

05/12/2019: "The Teaching of King Lemuel's Mother and "Ode To A Capable

Wife" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/05/2019: "These Three Things Abide" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/28/2019: "The Road To Everywhere" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/21/2019: "Then the Disciples Returned to their Homes" -

Rev. Martin Riekert

04/14/2019: "A Donkey, the Temple, and the Fig Tree"

04/07/2019: "We Eat Together" - Rev. Amy Bruch

03/31/2019: "Are Their Limits and Boundaries To Moral Behavior" -

Rev. Martin Riekert

03/24/2019: "The Paradoxical Commandments" - Rev. Amy Bruch

03/17/2019: "Without Condition...On the Following Conditions"

Rev. Martin Riekert

03/10/2019: "Dust and Such Matters" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/03/2019: "Some Things to Take on Our Spaceship" - Rev. Amy Bruch

2/24/2019: "Peto's Paradox" - Rev. Martin Riekert

2/17/2019: "Heroes" - Rasheed Townes

2/10/2019: "After We Are Gone" - Rev. Martin Riekert

2/03/2019: "The Consequences of Scripture" - Rev. Martin Riekert

1/27/2019: "It's Just Church" - Rev. Martin Riekert

1/20/2019: "Completely Uncredentialed and Without Pedigree" -

Rev. Amy Bruch

1/13/2019: "The Work of Our Hands" - Rev. Martin Riekert

1/06/2019: "Chalk On Doors" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/30/2018: "Preach the Gospel At All Times and If Necessary Use Words"-

Larry Atkins

12/23/2018: "Spiraling Out of Control" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/09/2018: "Passing of the Peace" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/02/2018: "Silence" - Rev. Amy Bruch

11/25/2018: "The Stories We Tell" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/18/2018: "This Blessedness" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/11/2018: "America The Beautiful" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/04/2018: "Words From Afar": - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/21/2018: "We Keep You In Our Prayers": - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/14/2018: "The Hawk Just Sat There": - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/07/2018: "Living in Community": - Rev. Amy Bruch

09/30/2018: "The Narrow Ridge": - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/23/2018: "Investing In God's Mission": - Rev. Dr. Jonathan New

09/16/2018: "Won't You Be My Neighbor?": - Rev. Amy Bruch

09/02/2018: "The More Things Change.": - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/26/2018: "To Paint an Office": - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/19/2018: "CCT Seed Vault": - Rev. Amy Bruch

08/12/2018: "Deep Blue" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/29/2018: "How We Lost The Sky" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/22/2018: "Illumination" - Rev. Amy Bruch

07/15/2018: "Jesus OnThe Border" - Rev. Roger A. Lier

07/08/2018: "Some Things You Can Fix and Some Things You Cannot Fix"-

Larry Atkins

07/01/2018: "Holding It Together Redux" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/24/2018: "Holding It Together" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/17/2018: "Nunuku's Law" - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/03/2018: "There Is No Such Question" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/27/2018: "You Can't Get There From Here" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/20/2018: "Developing Superpowers" - Rev. Amy Bruch

05/06/2018: "I Appeal To You To Be Conformed To This World" -

Rev. Martin Riekert

04.29.2018: "The Zebra Man" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/22/2018: "Let Us Sing" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/15/2018: "Going It Alone" - Dr. T. Richard Snyder

04/08/2018: "How Can You Not Get That" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/01/2018: "Eating Alone" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/25/2018: "Looking Beyond, Seeing Underneath" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/11/2018: "Korban" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/04/2018: "Holding Eastern Goutha while Celebrating Heat Pads" -

Rev. Martin Riekert

02/25/2018: "Perpetual Euphoria" - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/18/2018: "Do You See the Problem" - Rev. Donald Remick

02/11/2018: "A Sausage of Angel and Beast" - Larry Atkin

02/04/2018: "Feasting Like Disciples" - Rev. Amy Bruch

01/28/2018: "FEMA and Beyond" - Rev. Martin Riekert

01/21/2018: "Falling Together" - Rev. Amy Bruch

01/14/2018: "Not through the Telescope" - Rev. Martin Riekert

01/07/2018: "Epiphany...and then?" - Rev. Martin Riekert

12/31/2017: "Christmas Spirit?" - Larry Atkins

12/24/2017: "Signs Tell the Story" - Rev. Amy Bruch

12/10/2017: "Meatless Meatballs, Sneetches, and other Stories" -

Rev. Amy Bruch

12/03/2017: "The Killing Fields" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/26/2017: "An Epistle of Straw" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/19/2017: "Deacons Stewardship Moment" - Mike Ierardi

11/19/2017: "The Trick Is To Look Down" - Rev. Martin Riekert

11/12/2017: "What Would A Good Day Look Like" - Rev. Amy Bruch

11/05/2017: "Voices in the Dark" - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/29/2017: "Mission Trip Reflections" - Members of the Mission Trip

10/22/2017: "Politics,Sausage and Church" - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/15/2017: "The Lion Has Roared" - Rev. Amy Bruch

10/08/2017: "Groundhog Day" - Rev. Martin Riekert

10/01/2017: "Rebel with a cause" - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/24/2017: "Filling it in" - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/17/2017: "Finding a balance" - Rev. Amy Bruch

09/03/2017: "Perspectives on display"-Rev. Martin Riekert

08/27/2017: "I Sing Behind the Plow" - Rev. Amy Bruch

08/20/2017: "The Question" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/13/2017: "The Trajectory of Planet Nibiru" - Rev. Martin Riekert

08/06/2017: "Legato" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/30/2017: "How We Die" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/23/2017: "What is Truth" - Rev. Amy Bruch

07/16/2017: "A weird assessment" - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/09/2017: "When Mukurob Fell..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

07/02/2017: "Nothing against lepers but..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/25/2017: "The More Things Change..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

06/18/2017: "Aha Moments" - Rev. Amy Bruch

06/04/2017: "Unbearable mundaneness" - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/28/2017: "He prepares me for war..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

05/21/2017: "They're Telling Us- Are We Listening" -Rev. Amy Bruch

05/14/2017: "Holy Encounters Mary Elizabeth and Other Beloved"

- Rev. Amy Bruch

05/07/2017: "Faith: Understanding Verses Knowing" - Rev. William Main

04/30/2017: "Waiting for the knock on the door" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/23/2017: "When in Rome..." - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/16/2017: "After Three Endings Perhaps a New Beginning"

- Rev. Martin Riekert

04/09/2017: "The triumphant entry" - Rev. Martin Riekert

04/02/2017: "On the fast track" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/26/2017: "Orchestra" - Rev. Amy Bruch

03/19/2017: "It is what it is" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/12/2017: "The Missouri Doctrine" - Rev. Martin Riekert

03/05/2017: "Nimble giants" - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/26/2017: "Been there done that" - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/19/2017: "One way" - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/12/2017: "Why do it?"- Rev. Martin Riekert

02/05/2017: "Mysteries, Yes"- Rev. Amy Bruch

01/29/2017: "Seeing and Looking"- Rev. Martin Riekert

01/22/2017: "Everything and the Only Thing"- Rev. Martin Riekert

01/15/2017: "An Untimely Death and that Second Death"- Rev. Martin Riekert

01/08/2017: "The Mission"- Rev. Martin Riekert

01/01/2017: Act III: "Grace and Authenticity"-Rev. Amy Bruch

12/11/2016: A Shortage of Angels- Rev. Martin Riekert

11/20/2016: Act II: We Were Made for Times Like These- Rev. Amy Bruch

11/13/2016: When the fog clears- Rev. Martin Riekert

10/2/2016: Act I: Wrestling- Rev. Amy Bruch

06/19/2016: Rights of Passing - Rev. Martin Riekert

02/08/2015: The Passion and Politics of Islam- Raheel Raza

02/02/2014: The Curse of Unity? - Rev. Martin Riekert

09/29/2013: A Willingness to Look at Nothing- Rev. Martin Riekert

The Congregational Church of Topsfield

Sermons

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