UCC Medina Worship

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You've been chosen to carry Christ in your very being. Scripture and sermon only, Advent #4.

Selections from What Sweeter Music: A Cantata for Christmas

Our relationships shelter and shadow us. Sermon only.

The kingdom comes when you're fully present to the moment and your neighbor.

Faith is in the living, for the living.

If we share our light, we can light the way for everyone.

The platinum rule is to love our neighbor as they wish to be loved.

May we continue to show up for each other.

Seeds of meaning like rituals connect us through the ages.

You can't act like a goat and say you follow Jesus.

If it's not easy, convenient, or simple, that's how you know it's from God.

What we truly crave is for someone to look us in the eye and say, "Hey, I see you."

Strong, independent, faithful women are central to a life of faith. 

A loving God who commands us to abuse each other is no God worth worshipping.

May we be an oasis for the outcast and marginalized.

Start your new year off right around the table.

We are born into this world. We live and do unending piles of laundry and file taxes until we die. The end. Merry Christmas. Handel's Messiah prelude. 

Grief is the left-over radiation, love's fallout. 

Music Sunday with the choir, bells, band, soloists, and more.

Joy can get its arms around all that it means to be human.

What does any of this have to do with Christmas? Sermon only.

May you wield your hope like an axe that breaks down doors and barriers and rescues people.

In this place, together, we can imagine amazing possibilities and turn them into reality. Community Harvest Worship Series #3.

What does your spiritual landscape look like? Community Harvest Worship Series #2.

God ministers from the margins. Ministerial Intern Ryan Collins preaches.

Just look at what a dandelion seed faith can do for us. Communion of Sinners worship series begins.

Don't hit the snooze button on loving your neighbor.

Associate Pastor Meghan Malone candidating sermon: Jesus came to do more than be nice to the oppressed.

We have a God who finds us and puts us back in the flock.

What does it mean to be human together? Guest preacher the Rev. Michael Howard

Outdoor worship on the Medina Square with the Gateway Band.

What we do here is only as good as the true worship we do the rest of the week.

God made us to be unique and original, and it would be a shame if we died a copy of someone else. 

Jesus brings division. Fire to the earth. Growth for us. Growth for more love, less hate.

We exist to give ourselves and our gifts away.

Ryan Collins preaches on mental health and the WISE church designation.

Guest preacher Julie Gilliland shares her UCC Peace & Justice Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama.

Parables are well-designed strategic strikes on our senses.

When the Church condemns people to h*ll, it's just redemptive violence in theological drag. Note: Hymns are muted.

When Jesus starts to say "the Son of Man has no place to lay his head," we can say "Lord, you have a place. You have THIS place."

We think Jesus just wants our obedience, but no, Jesus wants our agency.

The Spirit of truth can enter in and guide us if we're humble enough to listen.

Let us celebrate the death of deadly institutionalism and welcome the age of the Spirit.

You know how to see the face of God. It's by loving.

Shine a light in the depth of fear.

As we encounter the sacred stories, our lives are unlocked.

Make a joyful noise as we await the coming of the Lord.

Our salvation is hidden in plain sight all around. (Sermon from early services, children's pageant at www.uccmedina.org/live)

Come all ye faithful, and let God make you mighty.

Like Jeremiah, "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" is minor key liberation. Freedom with weight. Rejoicing without ignoring the pain.