Claremont United Church of Christ

Get in your pajamas, cuddle up next to a fire, make a cup of hot chocolate, and listen to Pastors Jen and Jacob share some Christmas Morning reflections on Luke 2:22-38.

Tune in to Pastor Jen's creative Christmas Eve sermon to explore how we should pray to Baby Jesus and why we should be thankful that God has fontanelles.

There is a little known tradition at Claremont United Church of Christ that each year the baby who plays Jesus in the church pageant is given a solid gold coin. The coin was started by a Kurdish member of the congregation who is part of the Yaresan faith community that traces it's heritage back to the magi of Scripture. The Yaresans believe that all of humanity is united in a quest for truth. Join Pastor Jacob as he invites us to do away with our divisions and dogmatism and embrace the human journey for truth.

In the final installment of our sermon series, "Scrooge Meets Jesus," Pastor Jacob takes us on a wild ride through the Gospel of John to discover that the key to the future may be found in the present.

We might see the people around us with our eyes, but do we really see them for who they are? Join Pastor Jen, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and an unnamed woman with an alabaster jar for a journey into the depths of the human soul.

The Ghost of Christmas Past helps Scrooge realize that his icy heart is the product of the pain and turmoil of his past. In John 5, Jesus invites a man who has been paralyzed for 38 years to stand up and walk. The miracle points to a greater reality that sometimes we are held captive to our past when through Christ we are able to move forward without regret. What ghosts of the past still haunt you?

The great Native American spiritualist Black Elk had a vision of a world at peace where everyone was connected by a sacred hoop. Listen as Pastor Jen compares Christianity and the teachings of Black Elk and invites us to use this Thanksgiving as a way to begin to repair our world

Tune in for the only sermon you'll ever hear that intertwines support for the work of Charles Darwin and the development of evolutionary biology, an exploration of the writing of the Apostle Paul, and an exhortation for what comes next in our post-election country.

Our country is struggling to have important conversations about race. Perhaps, our dialogue would benefit from our taking a look at the implicit ways we are all involved in systems of inequality. Using Jesus' invitation from the Sermon on the Mount to consider the spirit of the law and using the philosophy of Malcolm X, Pastor Jacob asks us not to shift the blame in today's conversations on race.

Today we remember our loved ones who have died in the last year along with the 125th birthday of Claremont United Church of Christ. Join Pastor Jen as she helps us navigate both grief and hope during times of death and as she calls us all to leave a lasting impact in our communities. Happy Birthday, CUCC!