HeyJaredBethany UCC
Sermons and stories from Bethany United Church of Christ in Chicago, IL.
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26.09.20. Sermon. Keep Church Weird: Not What I Want (opens the original)
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This week in worship, Pastor Vince and Pastor Rebecca celebrated 10 years of ministry at Bethany. Vince preached on the ways that following Jesus calls us to love in unexpected ways.
26.09.13. Sermon. Keep Church Weird: Why Are We Doing This? (opens the original)
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Pastor Rebecca preaches 4 mini-sermons about how worship shapes and transforms us and why, as a church, we do what we do.
26.09.06. Sermon. Keep Church Weird (opens the original)
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Introducing our Keep Church Weird worship theme for September, Pastor Vince’s sermon reflects on the first time he realized it was “weird” to be a church person, and on the many ways that Jesus calls us to stick out in love.
26.08.30. Sermon. Show & Tell: Good News in the Shadow of the Empire (opens the original)
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The kind of sermon that elicited applause from the congregation! Rev. James Pennington preached from the book of Luke* for the final week of Show and Tell: a faith made for sharing. Joining the disciples who walked the road to Emmaus on the first Easter, Rev. James said we better pay attention, we better look around, because Empire teaches us to categorize, but Jesus teaches us to recognize. Instead of labels, Jesus gives us names. Give it a(nother) listen and then ask yourself, “Were not our he
26.08.23. Sermons. Show & Tell: Lost and Found (opens the original)
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Preaching on things lost and found, Pastor Rebecca’s sermon this week tells the story of Lambie by Susannah Pratt, while also citing Kathryn Schulz' Lost and Found .
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