February 05, 2024

Glow

February 05, 2024/ Elsa Worth

The light of Christ is even more powerful than sunlight and perhaps also a little scary.

June 12, 2023

Paraphrasing as a Practice

June 12, 2023/ Elsa Worth

If you heard my sermon on Sunday, you know sometimes I stop to really take a deep look at a familiar biblical phrase to better grasp what it might be saying to me.

August 22, 2022

Pride

August 22, 2022/ Elsa Worth

As we prepare for Keene Pride week in our community and in our church, this reading gives us the chance to clarify what we mean when we use the word pride.

September 20, 2021

Prayer

September 20, 2021/ Elsa Worth

Since our church is called St. James, I still feel affinity to the writer of the letter of James, even though he’s likely a different St. James than our own. And his advice to us this Sunday is to pray.

September 13, 2021

Peace

September 13, 2021/ Elsa Worth

We all know what it’s like to be “hangry” (hungry and angry) or to be around someone else who is. No good comes from being in a state of empty resentment.

August 02, 2021

Exist

August 02, 2021/ Elsa Worth

I don’t know about you, but while I often give thanks to God for a lot of things, existing is not generally one of them.

May 10, 2021

Practice

May 10, 2021/ Elsa Worth

I love how not only do we pray to God, God also prays for us.

November 30, 2020

Time

November 30, 2020/ Elsa Worth

The present moment contains eternity despite lasting only for a fleeting instant.

October 12, 2020

Offering

October 12, 2020/ Elsa Worth

If faith is to be anything more than a mental exercise, we need to put our faith into action in our lives, with love as the action verb that sets it into motion.

May 04, 2020

Stones

May 04, 2020/ Elsa Worth

The Acts reading this Sunday challenges us to think about our own responses to challenging changes and conflicts.

February 24, 2020

Temptation

February 24, 2020/ Elsa Worth

When the Sunday gospel is about Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness, you know Lent has arrived.

March 04, 2019

Near

March 04, 2019/ Elsa Worth

Much of our lives are spent in auto pilot without much conscious listening at all, but Lent invites us to intentionally carve out some time and space to be quiet and listen better.