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Scripture: 2 Samuel 11: 2- 5 Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN October 23, 2016 Today we conclude our five week sermon series on King David. We have spent 1/10th of the entire year on David alone. Let’s see how much you remember: 1). David fought a giant named __________ (Goliath) who was from which army?…
Scripture: 2 Samuel 6:14-16a Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN October 16, 2016 Since I am still fairly new as the pastor of this congregation, I had to laugh when I heard the story of another new pastor. Another new pastor moved into this certain town and went out one Saturday to visit his parishioners. All…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 18: 1-7; 2 Samuel 1:26 Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN October 9, 2016 I want to thank everyone who attended the worship service last week at Mentone UCC. It was an uplifting service, indeed. At a time when racial tensions are high in our country, it was so good to gather around…
Scripture: 2 Samuel 9: 1-13 Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN October 2, 2016 First, I would like to say thank you to Mentone United Church of Christ for hosting us this morning. You came in July and led us in an inspiring, moving, spirit-filled worship service. And ever since members of Redlands United Church of…
Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:41-50 Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN September 25, 2016 This past April, our RUCC book group read the book, The Secret Chord, by Geraldine Brooks. The Secret Chord is a historical novel based on the life of King David. One of the members of the book group made the comment that she…
September 18, 2016 Joanna Dewey Text of sermon not available.
Scripture: Proverbs 29:7 Matthew Young, Black Lives Matter IE September 11, 2016 Sermon text not available.
Scripture: Exodus 17:11-13, Revelation 21:5 Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN September 4, 2016 Labor Day weekend is often a time to fire up the grill and watch baseball. Baseball may begin in the spring, but it blossoms in the summer. Baseball is called America’s favorite past time. A few weeks ago, our church went on…
Scripture: Mark 7: 24-30 Jill A. Kirchner-Rose, MDIV, DMIN August 28, 2016 In my 20 plus years of ordained ministry, I have never preached on today’s scripture passage. I have never even attempted to preach on it. Why? It doesn’t make any sense to me. The Jesus I have come to love and follow and…
Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10, Luke 13:10-17 CHILDREN’S MESSAGE: Gather children. Tell them the gospel story for the day. Ask for 3 or 4 volunteers. Have the volunteers assume a stooped position, like the woman’s in the story. Ask them to walk around the sanctuary and come back. Ask them: What was that like? Did the world look…