United Church of Christ
10 AM Sunday Worship
218 Main Street, Groton, MA
218 Main Street, Groton, MA
Sermons on Matthew (Page 3)
This year for Lent, we are looking at the different things we can “give up” that have more to do with our heart and minds than our habits and waistlines. Giving up control – expectations – superiority – and today, our enemies. Enemies are interesting to ponder… I wonder, do we really have enemies? I…
This is the last in our series on the Angels of Advent and Christmas. We met the angel Gabriel twicefirst when he visited Zechariah, Jesus’ uncle; and then when he announced to Mary that she would be the mother of the Messiah. Then an unnamed angel spoke to Joseph in a dream that he should…
This is the third week in our sermon series on the Angels of Advent and Christmas. And as we move through the Christmas Story we see that angels are messengers from God; that when something big happens – God sends His angels to tell us about it. The first week we heard the angel Gabriel’s…
At the risk of being overly confessional, have others of you noticed the unfortunate phenomenon that you get in the most fights with the people you care the most about? Melinda and I have, what I would consider, a very happy marriage. But by far I get in more fights with her than anyone else in my life. And yet she is…
Go, baptize, teach, remember. With such basic instructions, I wonder how church got so complicated. We have committees, ministries, task forces, councils, conferences, doctrines, dogmas. Some churches even have courts and trials to enforce it all. This structure may have something to do with how we refine and revise our processes. New procedures are usually built on what came before. When we…
A while back I ran into someone that I hadn’t seen in years. But I remembered that she’d had a birthday recently and so I said, “Happy Birthday!” Well, she was confused by this and I realized that I had crossed that invisible line that divides friends from mere acquaintances. Only good and close friends know when your birthday is. So how…
Today we are wonderfully “out of season” as we hear the stories we typically hear on Christmas Eve, sing a Christmas hymn, hear a Christmas anthem and ponder what it means for God to be born in the world in the way in which He was. And while the two versions of the story I…