Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor July 16, 2017 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 The Dump Truck of God’s Grace This passage today is amazing! And here’s why… It describes a sower who is seemingly reckless with the amount of seed he scatters, throwing it not…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 16, 2017 Easter Sunday Matthew 28:1-10 He is Not Here! The day the world changed! What happened that morning is like nothing human kind had ever seen or known! To many, I’m sure it sounded like fake news: A man was…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor April 9, 2017 Palm Sunday Philippians 2:5-11 Matthew 21:1-11 What We Want – What We Get The longer I’m a Christian, following the holidays and calendar of the church, the more I find Palm Sunday to be a mixed bag kind of…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor March 5, 2017 First Sunday in Lent Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11 Tempted! The way we read the Bible in church was never the way it was intended to be read – either by the ancient Israelites or Jesus’ followers or the…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor February 19, 2017 Seventh Sunday after Epiphany Matthew 5:17, 38 – 48 His Kingdom – Our Hearts Jesus begins this discussion by bolding declaring (v.17) that every promise of God, the whole of the Old Testament, indeed God’s plan for the universe,…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor February 12, 2017 Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Matthew 5:16-17, 21-37 But I Say to You… Some of us are rule followers – others not so much. Some laws are obviously for our benefit and the benefit of society: You’re not…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor February 5, 2017 Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Matthew 5:1-16 Promise? Command? You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. How do we hear these familiar words of Jesus? What do they mean for us as those…
Sermons at Union Congregational Church Preached by The Reverend Gail L. Miller, Pastor January 22, 2017 Third Sunday after Epiphany 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Matthew 4:12-23 Being and Doing The question for today is: How do we become followers of Christ? It was also the question last week, and we have in these two weeks two…