by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Micah 6; Matthew 25 The Ghost of Tom Joad, Revisited Today I’d like to share a story about something that happened here at the church several weeks ago. It’s a story that has implications concerning some of the hard truths we’re being forced to confront in our...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Text: Romans 12: 1-3 In Praise of Steadiness A few months ago I had the experience of returning to the church in New Haven where Rachael and I attended for many years. It had been a place that had nurtured and formed us during some crucial years in our...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
This morning we welcomed to our pulpit David Fitzpatrick. David is a writer and author of the memoir “Sharp”, and is the brother of Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager. He and his wife, Amy Holmes, live Rockfalls, Connecticut. They are advocates in the mental health community....
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Daniel 1; I Corinthians 6 Let Food Be Thy Medicine I’ve borrowed my sermon title this morning from the ancient words of Hippocrates, that Greek sage credited with the founding of medical study and practice. “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Exodus 3:5 Ecclesiasticus 4:11-16 John 15:7-17 We Stand on Holy Ground Just about one year ago, I was privileged to make the journey to Washington, D.C., to Arlington National Cemetery, with the family of Betty Smith, to lay her to rest beside her...