Bethany UCC

Touching on the subject of matsutake mushrooms, Pastor Vince's sermon this week preaches on the ways Advent prepares us to live in a precarious world.

Student Pastor Kelli Manning delivered a sermon this week focused on Advent as a time of waiting and expectation, but also a time of breaking news. Focusing on Luke 1:26-45, 56 and the story of Elizabeth and Mary, she asks: how do we show hospitality to one another when news breaks?

In the first sermon of our "Breaking Point" series, Student Pastor Xander King considers Advent as a time just before sunrise. He asks us: how do we find glimpses of God during this dark season, and how we might allow those glimpses to give us hope for the future dawn?

In the last sermon in our "Help, Thanks, Wow" series, Pastor Rebecca centers Psalm 126, one of 15 Psalms meant to be sung by pilgrims on their way up to Jerusalem.

Pastor Vince centers this sermon around the idea that our suffering matters.

In the first sermon of our "Help, Thanks, Wow" worship theme, Pastor Rebecca preaches in response to the collective grief of the moment, reminding us that our help comes from God.

Pastor Vince's sermon this week is all about clouds. In it, he shares that no act of love is ever wasted.

In a dialogue sermon between Pastor Rebecca and Dr. Hannah Carl, the two discuss 1st Corinthians 19 and our relationship between ourselves, our food and the land.

Student Pastor Kelli Manning delivered a sermon this week asking the question: if we the Church are called to be one body, how is that body listening to their physical bodies?

This week, student pastor Xander King reminded us that true safety is not found in locked doors and "sheepdog" mentality. True safety is found when a hug, a meal, a joke, and support is only a knock away.