Text: Isaiah 2:1-5 Happy New Year! Fill the glasses! Toss the confetti! Kiss your beloved! Make your resolutions! Happy New Year, my dear friends at Cove! I am so glad we can spend this New Year’s Day together. Now, you look a bit perplexed. Why all the curious stares? Did I get the date wrong? Or did you? As the church creates its calendar, this is New Year’s Day. And, the first New Year’s word is not new at all. It was spoken first by the Hebrew prophet Isaiah long ago, but

Text: John 18:33-37 The week ahead is a busy one on the American calendar. It is definitely a busy week on the Charles calendar. Later today, we will go celebrate the first birthday of our grandnephew, baby Joe Piplico, then two days later we will celebrate the birthday of my bride, Jennell, and on Thursday, the national Thanksgiving feast will return for its annual visit. Over my lifetime, the way we celebrate Thanksgiving has changed significantly, but one feature has held

I Corinthians 8:1-13 On this All Saints’ Sunday on the eve of Election Day, I would like to focus on saints now gone and saints still living, but my heart and mind are elsewhere. On this holy day and in this sacred season, I am deeply saddened by what I see as a hardening of the American heart, when people think it is okay to laugh about a brutal attack on the husband of the Speaker of the House. And I fear the growing media echo chambers in which we live, all of them feeding