First Congregational United Church of Christ

Preached by Karen Byrne
March 7th, 2010
Third Sunday Of Lent
Lectionary Text:
Psalm 63:1-8
Luke 13:6-9
Isaiah 55:1-5
Bio: Karen Byrne, a member of First Congregational since 2006, has accepted the call of Winslow Congregational UCC in Winslow, Maine, to be their settled pastor. She was approved for ordination by Ecclesiastical Council of the Potomac Association (attended by a dozen First [...]

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Moderated by Rev. Peter Dennebaum
February 21, 2010
Lectionary Text:
Psalm 139:1-12
…Taize is a small village in the eastern part of France. Since 1940 it has been the home of an ecumenical community of brothers where prayer, three times a day, is the center of life. Part of that prayer time is spent in singing short repetitive refrains [...]

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Preached by Barbara Brown Zikmund, Ph.D
January 31, 2010
Lectionary Text:
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Luke 4:21-30
…I’ve always read and heard this story as a background for the phrase “we can’t go home again.” As we grow up and leave our families and the network of relationships that nurtured us, it is often difficult for the folks who knew us [...]

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Preached by Rev. Peter Dennebaum
January 24, 2010
Lectionary Text:
Luke 4:12-21
…Each new member changes the organization for ever. With your joining our church will never be again the church like before. You will change us and we welcome you to change us. Called to be one body
In Christ, our old relationships will be renewed and get opened [...]

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Preached by Rev. Peter Dennebaum
January 17, 2010
Lectionary Text:
John 2:1-11
…I still have this 2yo boy in front of my eyes, who got found alive among the dead bodies of his brothers. And I still hear the woman saying, repeating over and over again into the microphone of the journalist: “A miracle, a miracle – that was [...]

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