Sermon – I am a salty Christian

A Sermon by Rev. Whitney Bruno – Feb. 5, 2023 – for LCUCPC – Isaiah 58: 1-12; Matthew 5: 13-20 “I Am A Salty Christian” Listen or watch this service here I am all on board with Jesus today – yeah! I like being called tasty salt. Yeah! I like being called light and wanted …

Loving God; Vengeful God – St. Michael’s UCC Baltimore Ohio November 15th 2020

Listen to this sermon here Jump to the sermon text November 15th, 2020ANNOUNCEMENTS Fairfield County continues to be red for COVID-19. Therefore, our services will be physically distant as a way to lovingly protect one another’s health.The community thanksgiving service will be online. Please let Rev. Bruno know if you would like a DvD of …

The Despot Who Missed Christ – October 11th 2020

Who wants to be chosen by a despot king? Not me.

Mixed Up Inside

See this Video Here See the kid's chat here Announcements This is our offering for the food pantry this week. Did you know 1 in 5 Ohioans have filed for unemployment? And some who haven’t filed are still without income… such as many babysitters. How are we going to get through this crisis? As a …

Feelings – Covid-19

See the video here https://youtu.be/XYgAqdSCHIo  Where are you today? We’re all at different places. My place? I want to curl up in a ball into bed and lay there. I don’t want to adult anymore or mom anymore. I don’t want to think. Or act. Or do. This is how I am feeling. And it …

Angry Christians

Ephesians 4:25-5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 I get irrationally angry sometimes over the most silly, trivial things. I was parking the other day. There were only 2 spots left in the little lot. One in front of the other. A car went down the first lane, I went down the second. Now we'd both have the …

Made for Good Works

John 3:14-21 Ephesians 2:1-10 Paul is writing to the little group of religious refugees in Ephesus. He says, once -- all of you -- including all of us here at Saint Michael's -- were existing in the course of the world, following the 'aeon' or spirit of the air, the gestalt, or the common way …

A Rainbow of Hope

Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Noah's story is a strange one. I usually hear it in one of two ways. The first way is the cute animal ark story. In this, a zoo of animals ride a boat with little smiling Noah under a rainbow. You see it on nursery walls and stitched on baby …

To be or not to be?

Jonah 3:10-4:11  Philippians 1:21-30 "To be or not to be; that is the question" is a famous phrase from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, and is spoken by Hamlet. He asks - what is better? To live; or to die? Back and forth Hamlet goes, considering the pros and cons of living or dying. In our scripture …

Things Unseen

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 Our election this season is one of fear. Fear, feelings of persecution, feelings of unheard, feeling misunderstood, feeling marginalized, feeling belittled, feeling silenced. Fear leads it all. Followed by anger, and hate, and more fear. Our African American citizens fear the cops. The cops fear the African Americans. On edge, …