Lessons: John 3:1-17 Message: Living the Mystery This Sunday, the second Sunday of our Lenten Season, we will consider the oft quoted John text, John 3:16 (“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
Lessons: Matt 17:1-9Message: Transfiguration MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Ash Wednesday is in just one week! Ash Wednesday is when Christians mark the first day of our season of atonement, reflection, and renewal. On this day we recall that we are mortal objects made of the earth for the purpose of grounding us in a humble
Lessons: Matthew 5:21-37Message: Reconciliation This Sunday we’ll continue our reading of Jesus’ sermon on the mount almost to its end. This is the part that gets tricky, where Jesus uses as examples parts of the original law of Israel given to the people in the book of Exodus and questions its application. We will
Our 2022 Annual Meeting will follow worship this Sunday, February 5, 2023, please join us as we plan, resolve, hope, remember and celebrate all that we did last year and all that we hope to be this year! We will hear reports from the moderator, the pastor, as well as vote to accept the
Lessons: Matthew 5:13-20Message: A Brighter Light This Sunday is February and Communion AND ANNUAL MEETING! All of these things may SEEM like they have nothing in common but, of course, they DO (except maybe February…) Communion is our coming together to feed off of the Holy Spirit that blesses us whenever we come together
Lessons: Micah 6: 6-8 Matthew 5:1-12Message: “A Both/And Church” This Sunday is one you don’t want to miss. We will be welcoming our new Minister of Faith Formation, Rev. Matt Carriker who will be doing our Children’s Message and preaching on two crowd favorites, Micah 6 and the Beatitudes. Here’s a bit about the process
Lesson: Isaiah 9:1-4, Matthew 4:12-23 Message: Tea in Dark Times Welcome to January… when it’s cold and dark and cold and … dark… and when it’s … cold. Clearly, I’m not a fan of the cold. Not to say that New England winters don’t have their redeeming qualities! I know some of you
Our new Minister of Faith Formation In June of 2022 the UPA Board of Education began a search for a new Director of Religious Education. During this process we wondered if it might be more fitting to UPA’s vision to find an ordained minister to fill this role opening the position to
Lesson: Matthew 2:1-12 Guest Preacher: Rev. Alex Shea Will! I’m so excited to welcome Rev. Alex Shea Will to our pulpit this Epiphany Sunday! Rev. Shea Will is the Associate Conference Minister of the Metropolitan Boston Association of the Southern New England Conference of the UCC. Seeing as we will be celebrating the
Lesson: Isaiah 63:7-9, Hebrews 2:10-18 Message: New Year – New You! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you all! I hope you are finding some rest and joy in this week of Christmastide celebrations. This Sunday, January 1st we will RING IN the New Year with a traditional
