Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 29, 2018 Fifth Sunday of Easter John 15:1-8 Remaining on the Vine Last week (Good Shepherd Sunday) Jesus was the Good Shepherd, we were the sheep. This week the image shifts and now Jesus says that he is the vine, we…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 22, 2018 Fourth Sunday of Easter John 10:10b-18 Life in the Flock Just outside of Bethlehem is a place called “The Shepherd’s Field.” It is the spot where, tradition says, the shepherds watched their flocks the night Jesus was born. Rolling…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 8, 2018 Second Sunday of Easter John 20:19-31 You Don’t Have To Be There! You had to be there! You just had to be there! I find that it is hard – try as I might – to match someone else’s…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 18, 2018 Fifth Sunday in Lent John 12:20-33 Meaning in Suffering “Why do you not commit suicide?” And with this question, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl offered his patients a key with which to unlock the chains of their afflictions. What he was…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 4, 2018 Third Sunday in Lent John 2:13-22 What is Necessary? Approaching the house on a mission…. He moves from room to room… a table over here overflowing with stuff, an alcove over there…the same. It’s too much…. And so he…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor January 14, 2018 Second Sunday after Epiphany I Samuel 3:1-10 Psalm 139:1-12 John 1:43-51 Have you ever had one of those weeks? You know…. Your spouse gets sick – the prolonged kind of really knock you out sick – and the division of labor in the household shifts dramatically.…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 23, 2017 Second Sunday of Easter John 20:19-23 Jesus Appears: Scars and All Of all the different aspects of the Christian faith – Jesus’ birth, his miracles, prayer, creation, etc… – the one that is most important to me, personally, is…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 13, 2017 Maundy Thursday John 13 Needing Others — Needing Jesus For the people in the time and culture of Jesus, public meals could become less about food than they were about place. Where you sat reflected your rank in the social…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 26, 2017 Fourth Sunday in Lent I Samuel 16: 6-13 John 9: 1-42 ‘Twas Blind, But Now I See The Bible is the story of constantly opening eyes. Sometimes we get miracle stories, like today (John 9). Other times, we are…