“God and the Coronavirus.” Join Clackamas UCC as we welcome our guest preacher, Thomas Jay Oord. Did God cause the coronavirus to teach us a lesson? Is it a punishment from God? What might God be calling us to do in this moment? Check out Tom’s sermon and stick around for the Q&A afterward for…
PreludeWelcome and Announcements – Adam Ericksen Lighting of the Peace Candle Call to Worship – One: Come, let us join together before God; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! All: Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving! One: God is leading us through the wilderness of the season.…
Back in the day there was a couple whose names were Abraham and Sarah. God blessed them. But not so that they could keep the blessings of God for themselves. God blessed them so that they would share God’s blessings with all the families of the earth. All the families. The poor families. The rich…
Lent begins with Jesus entering the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. What would it look like if Jesus entered a church to be tempted by Satan? Check out our sermon from Sunday to find out!
There are some Christians who claim that Jesus came to earth to die. I think that’s wrong. Jesus didn’t come to earth to die. He came to earth to show us how to party. To show us how to live in an inclusive community where God’s love flows as abundantly and freely to everyone as…
Jesus says that you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. That seems like some pretty big expectations! But what if being salt and light is not something that you must achieve by being a supremely good and moral person? What if you already are the salt and light of…
In the Beatitudes, Jesus is inviting us to participate in the very life of God. When you allow the divine life to flow through you, you allow God’s steadfast love and mercy to flow through you. Like Katie, we can respond to slights or disappointments by grieving and then moving on one step at a time, trusting in the way of God’s…
Come and See: The Journey with God in a Traumatic World What do you do when facing trauma? The prophet Isaiah and his people were utterly destroyed by the Babylonian Empire. The Babylonians then forced the Jews in exile throughout their Empire. Jesus and his people were humiliated by the Roman Empire. What do you…
Baptism is one of those Christian rituals that has a lot of religious baggage. I’ve talked with quite a few of you about being in the process of unlearning a lot of the harmful religious teachings that many of us have grown up with. And there’s quite a bit to unlearn when it comes to…
“The Magi are heroes of our faith because they refused to follow the order of a corrupt and violent political ruler of their day. And do you know what we call that? We call that nonviolent civil disobedience.”