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Here is our liturgy today. Please feel free to follow along. Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020PreludeWelcome and Announcements – Adam Ericksen Lighting of the Peace Candle – Amira Stanley and AdamAdam: Our tradition at CUCC is to light a peace candle at the beginning of each worship service to center ourselves around the Peace of God.…
Prelude Welcome and Announcements – Adam Ericksen Lighting of the Peace Candle – Amira Stanley and Adam Adam: Our tradition at CUCC is to light a peace candle at the beginning of each worship service to center ourselves around the Peace of God. Amira will lead us in the liturgy as I light the candle… Amira:…
“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…
Racism is generally framed as something that happened in the past and almost always “down south” in cities like Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery. But what about the racism of Oregon? The struggles here were just as intense — though rarely identified in history books. In today’s sermon, Rev. Charlie Hinkle reflects on Oregon’s racist heritage.…
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…