by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Mar 8, 2020 | Sermons
John 3:1-17 Listen here: Will you join me in singing our prayer: God, listen to your children praying. God, send your spirit in this place. God, listen to your children praying. Send us love, send us power, send us grace. When I preach, I normally like to begin with a...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Mar 1, 2020 | Sermons
Matthew 4:1-11 Will you pray with me? Ubi caritas et amor, ubi caritas, Deus ibi est. When I was ordained and in my first call as pastor at Spirit of the Lakes, I had a mentor through a program of the national United Church of Christ. His name was Bill Webber and he...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Feb 23, 2020 | Sermons
Matthew 17:1-9 Listen here: It was on of my first nights on call at the hospital as a chaplain-in-residence in Brooklyn, NY. I got call to a department I’d never been to and had to look up on a map. It was a day surgery unit. Her husband had had what was supposed to...
by Dr. Rom Maczka | Feb 16, 2020 | Sermons
Scripture: Matthew 5:21-37 Listen here: Yes, friends, today the scripture turns our attention nothing less than MURDER, ADULTRY and DIVORCE. If we trying to drive people away from our church, this might be a good place to start! It makes me think about pulling those...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Feb 9, 2020 | Sermons
Matthew 5:13-20 Listen here; This has been one of those weeks. I’ve sent out more prayer requests to you all in the last week or so than in the last few months, meaning things are tough on the home-front for many of us. And it has been beyond what I anticipated by a...
by admin | Feb 2, 2020 | Sermons
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12 Listen here: January 21st, 2017. Inauguration day. I stood in a crowd of thousands in a parking lot in St. Paul getting ready to march towards the capital, complete with our pink hats and all the energy of freshly ignited resistance. I had...
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