Tag: story

Grace

Grace (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Ephesians 2:4-10
April 8, 2018

Craig Driver, Jo Tefft, Leah Reisinger, Steve Peters.  This is who we are, the people gathered in this particular room at this particular hour, each of us bringing our own stories: stories of finding our way, some of us having an easier time of it, some of us a harder time; stories of making a living and making a life, of falling down and rising up, of gaining and of losing; stories of leaving our mark and of being marked by the people who come into our lives.… Continue reading ...

Fear not!

Fear not! (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Luke 1:26-33
December 14, 2014

Welcome to First Congregational … playhouse!

What do you see?  “Props” are tools for telling a story, a gateway for the imagination.  Theater invites us to embark on a journey of the imagination, leaving behind where we are, how we are, what we are, to inhabit for a time, by imagination, another space, another time, another person’s experience.… Continue reading ...

Remember and never forget!

Remember and never forget! (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Luke 2:22-32
December 28, 2014

Remember and never forget!

That was Jean Kimball’s admonition to us, or rather, the Bible’s admonition, of which Jean was always reminding us!  Remember and never forget what?

That we are part of the story.  That we are part of God’s story.… Continue reading ...

He is coming

He is coming (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Jeremiah 33:14-16
November 29, 2015

Once upon a time …

That’s how all the good stories begin!  Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived …

… a dragon, a big bad wolf, a jealous queen, a wicked step-mother,

… a pale-skinned princess, a boy made of wood, a homely duckling, a girl with a red cape,

… a woodsman with a axe, a puppeteer, a jester playing a flute, an old man spinning straw, a fairy godmother with a wand, a half-dozen or so dwarves with pickaxes and shovels,

… and you! … Continue reading ...