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Worship October 6, 2024

Scripture: Mark 10: 2-16Message: Essence and Form                                         This Sunday we will gather around the table with Christians from all over the world in celebration of World Communion Sunday! It will be a day to remember that we are not alone in our hope for unity and peace through justice for the sake of

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Pumpkin Patch

It’s pumpkin time at UPA.  Sunday October 6, 2024 pumpkins will be here and we need your help!!! Help us unload and spreading pumpkins across the church lawn, decorate the sales area and beyond, bring your wheelbarrow and gardening gloves. This is such a fun time for all families each year. The SignUp Genius is

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Rob Reiner’s God & Country Documentary

Join us at 2nd Church in Newton on Sept. 29, 2024 at 4:00pm for a showing of Rob Reiner’s new documentary, God and Country. Members of Unite Boston (Unite Boston nurtures unity among diverse Christians through relationships for the flourishing of the city. We seek to be an incubator and catalyst

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September 22nd Worship

Scripture: Proverbs 31:10-31Message: Uncommon Wisdom This Sunday we’ll look at a scripture that has been used far too often to set unreasonable expectations for the role of wife. And yet, when read outside of this perspective it is a beautiful recognition of the endless world and incomprehensible wisdom of women as a whole.

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August 25th Worship

Scripture:  1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30, 41-43Message:  A Limitless God I think it’s hard to imagine a limitless God. I preach of a limitless God and the idea of some entity or energy that is omniscient and omnipotent and eternal is wonderful in this finite life. But when it comes down to understanding what all

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August 18th Worship

Scripture: I kings 2:10-12.   3:3-14 Message: The Wisdom of Solomon. This weeks scripture from the Old Testament is the story of the end of King David’s life and the beginning of Solomons tenure. One of the key themes of this reading is about Solomon’s initial requests to God as he was about to take over. Instead

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August 18th Worship

Scripture: I kings 2:10-12.   3:3-14Message: The Wisdom of Solomon. This weeks scripture from the Old Testament is the story of the end of King David’s life and the beginning of Solomons tenure. One of the key themes of this reading is about Solomon’s initial requests to God as he was about to take over. Instead of

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 September 11th Worship

Scripture:  2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 IT IS STILL SUMMER! I’m just writing this to soothe those of us who feel this fleeting warmth and respite from the busy-ness that it becomes September through May. It is STILL Summer! And so I want to know, what are the Summer-special things you are doing or

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July 28th Worship

Scripture: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19Message: MATE work campers to share about their experience at work camp this week Dear UPA friends,Peace to you! Cheryl and I are off with 16 other UPA youth and adults at a work camp in the Farmington, Maine area this week. Many thanks to UPA’s Board of Education and

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July 14th Worship

Scripture: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19Message: Thin Places Dear UPA friends, Peace to you! I have missed being with you the last couple of weeks! This Sunday, I look forward to sharing as we continue the exploration of the life of David that began in mid-June. In the text for this week, David and the people of

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