Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor June 2, 2019 Celebration of the Ascension Acts 1:1-11 He’s Gone! Now What? When we think of the high holy days of the church year, what comes to mind? Christmas – Easter And then…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 24, 2019 Third Sunday of Lent Acts 9:1-22 Changed: One at a Time (Fourth in a Six-Part Series: Adventuring Through Acts) Did you know that Mickey Rooney, the great actor, was married…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 10, 2019 First Sunday of Lent Acts 2:27-47 Church: How It All Began! (Second in a Six-Part Series: Adventuring Through Acts) What is it about origin stories? It’s as if we have a human need to rifle back to the past…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 3, 2019 Last Sunday after Epiphany Acts 2:1-21 Filled with the Spirit (First in a Six-Part Series: Adventuring Through Acts) Today we begin our sermon series: Adventuring Through Acts. Over the next six Sundays, taking us up to Holy Week, Gary…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor May 13, 2018 Celebration of the Ascension Acts 1:1-11 I think that Ascension Day is a weird day. It is at the same time an important thing and a supernatural thing. It is that part of the drama of Jesus that explains…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor May 28, 2017 Seventh Sunday of Easter Celebration of the Ascension Acts 1:1-11 Wait For It… The church as you may know has its own calendar – I like to think of it as a layer placed on top of the…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 30, 2017 Third Sunday of Easter Genesis 9:8-17 Acts 2:14a, 36-12 We Believe… It is always a blessing and joy to celebrate the sacrament of baptism. But it would be incorrect of me to assume that we all have the same…
While we’re celebrating the Ascension today, the actual Feast day is on Thursday. Because the church celebrates the Ascension 40 days after the resurrection, it always falls on a Thursday, and so we need to move it either forward or backward, to give a Sunday to it. It’s important that we not skip over it,…
This is the second of three sermons on the three primary ways we go about Sharing Christ and Changing Lives, as we prepare to discuss a potential building project to better fulfill this purpose. Last week we looked at the importance of the firm foundation of anything and everything we do here Jesus Christ…
Several years ago, the Church Council (our church’s governing body), very aware of the needs we have as a church re: our building (accessibility issues and deferred maintenance needs), formed a Facilities Task Force, whose job was to assess the current state of our buildings and our needs for improvements. That list was long and…