Acts 1:6-14; John 17:1-11 [W]hy do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. Jesus had been lifted up into heaven and then a cloud took him out of sight. Two men in white appeared and told the disciples that…
A Christian Unitarian Church Serving Newton, Brookline, and the Boston Area since 1861
Sunday Service at 10:30am
Rev. Mark J.T. Caggiano
26 Suffolk Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Sermons on John
May 7, 2023 Acts 7:55-60; John 14:1-7 Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. I have had a few people ask about our post-Easter roster of scripture readings. In general, the comments are about why we are spending so much time…
April 30, 2023 Acts 2:42-47; John 10:1-10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. That is the goal. That is the purpose. To have life and to have it abundantly. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, what exactly does it mean? You may have…
April 16, 2023 Acts 2:14a, 22-32; John 20:19-31 But [Thomas] said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.” Thomas is the apostle known for his disbelief, “Doubting Thomas” being a common reference for him. How did…
March 19, 2023 1 Samuel 16:7-13, John 9:1-7 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Who sinned? The man, who was born blind? Or his parents, whose sin was to be passed along to their son? Jesus rejects that line of…
March 12, 2023 Exodus 17:1-7; John 4:31-38 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” This is a common Biblical metaphor. You reap what you have sown. That is a more accusatory version of the metaphor, however.…
January 15, 2023 Isaiah 49:1-7; John 1:29-42 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away. And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” This weekend we turn our minds toward a servant…