Benediction – Female Images of God

As a mothering hen gathers her chicks, so God gathers you into safety and security.As a woman seeks a lost treasure, so God refuses to stop seeking and finding goodness for you.Go out with the ferociousness of a protective mother bear for those weaker.Go out with the tenderness of a dove's lullaby for the world's …

Wolves & Sheep – June 14th 2020

Younger Saints' Video Message on Hope and Disappointment, click here. View the below sermon here. ANNOUNCEMENTS -Still waiting on disinfectant company to schedule us -Church repairs about done -Keep going to our private page for prayers. -Please keep sending in tithes. CENTERING A welcome based on Zion United Church of Christ’s Statement of Welcome God, …

Like A Father

The authors of Proverbs imagine wisdom as a woman and a spirit that invites all people to come to her. When she remembers God creating, she uses a word that calls herself either God’s master artisan or worker helping imagine the wonders of the world… or a little girl who delights and plays in the …

Offertory Prayer: Spirit

Like a dove, swoop down Holy God and gather up our offerings. Then like a wind, spread them in all places needing the warm fire of your love. This we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

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 …

Dancing in the Spirit

Genesis 1:1-5 Mark 1:4-11 Water throughout the Bible - In the beginning - our translation today says a wind from God sweeps over the face of the waters. But this could also be translated as the spirit of God hovered, the breath of God danced, the soul of God fluttered. Much like a dove's flight. …