United Congregational Christian Church

Tag: power

  • Rest for the Weary [Sermon]

    I grew up in the Evangelical Free Church. We were taught about how Jesus would come as a mighty warrior, slaying all the evildoers. Evildoers did not include us, of course. We were forgiven. Well, unless we committed certain sins that were unforgivable. Like being gay. And people said “you will be forgiven if you…

  • The Word Became Flesh [Sermon]

    Cartoons today are pretty sophisticated, with multiple plot lines going at once, and with a lot of world-building. I grew up with simpler cartoons: Tom and Jerry Sylvester and Tweety Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny One of the unwritten rules was that the less-powerful character always had to win. When…

  • Remember [Sermon]

    I recently read some advice on how to be successful. I wonder whether that really works.I don’t think it would be helpful in making friends.Well, not real friends. Let’s go to God in prayer.God of wisdom, may the words that I speak, and the ways they are received by each of our hearts and minds,…

  • Higher Ground [Sermon]

    “You may feel you are on the mountaintop. You may seek higher ground by traveling on a rocket into space. But the higher ground you seek is not in the altitude in orbit of a planet, or in the arrival to another planet like mars: The higher ground you seek can be found in the…

  • How Much Do We Want? [Sermon]

    Has anyone played Monopoly? It was originally patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as “The Landlord’s Game.” The game illustrated how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. Ironically, the story of what became of The Landlord’s Game is one of the powerful overwhelming the powerless, involving Parker Brothers and a man who claimed to…