Fear Not 2.0 — There Has Always Been a Fight for American Democracy
Pastor’s note: We run the risk in our imperiled time of forgetting the struggles in earlier times. We remember easier days and in our memories we create a “good old
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Fear Not 2.0 — In a Panic, Pray…
Pastor’s Note: our “Fear Not” today first appeared as one of the UCC’s Daily Devotionals during Advent. “Enter In” was written by Vicki Kemperer, the pastor of First United Church
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Old First Moving Towards W.I.S.E.
A group of approximately 12 Old First affiliated folks joined on Saturday for a three-hour Zoom meeting on what it means to be a welcoming, inclusive, supportive, and engaging congregation
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Book Group on Race and Racism, Sunday, March 8
The Book Group on Race and Racism: We will meet on March 8 to discuss Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, by Nicolas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn. The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors
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This Sunday’s, January 14th, Forgiving Victim Video on Prayer is in the Social Hall at 10am.
James Alison begins with an interpretation of the parable of the Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow. He sees this as an example of our reluctance to become insistent desirers
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Bob Robinson’s Advent Bible Study: Sundays, Dec. 3, 10, 17 and (maybe?) 24
Bob Robinson’s Advent Bible Study is an annual favorite around Old First. And this year, it will be back at it’s normal slot, the hour before worship, in the Social
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Getting Ready for Sunday, 10.08
Numbers 11: 27-29 Mark 9: 38-50 Why I Take Communion On this Sunday, when we celebrate World Communion Sunday, we are challenged to find ways to express our beliefs in all
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Sunday, Oct. 8 & 22, @ 10am– Mercy, Not Sacrifice
In the next two sessions of Jesus the Forgiving Victim, James Alison’s video helps us understand the meaning of Atonement. Literally, the word means satisfaction or reparation for a wrong.
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Psalm 78: 1-4, 12-16 Exodus 17: 1-7 Out of Egypt and out of the wilderness, God finds ways to make water and life flow in unexpected ways. But it requires
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Bob Schneider, Old First member and scholar, will be preaching on the Word as found in Scripture and how it applies to our daily lives, as individuals and as a
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