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From the Pulpit
Getting Stoned
- by Pastor James Campbell
... We have all been stoned by cruelty and unfairness and anger… But forgiveness is not an emotion ... [it] is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart... Read more»
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(The second of 2 classes)
Sun., May 18 -- 3:30 pm
June's Book: GILEAD
Monday, May 5 -- 6:30 pm
UCC Denomination News:United Church News UCC members have contributed $28,880 in the past five days to aid victims of the cyclone-devastated Myanmar. The natural disaster has left more than 1 million homeless and tens of thousands dead. |
From our MAY NEWSLETTER:
THE POLITICS OF JESUS
- by Pastor James Campbell
...There has also been a lot of discussion about the dangers of churches becoming too political. The problem is not in having a political church, but in having a partisan one. I believe in that ‘wall’ that separates church from state. It keeps both safe and free. Partisanship has no place in the church… but politics sure does! The Gospel is political. Jesus got into trouble with the ‘powers that be’ precisely because his message had such sweeping political ramifications. You cannot lift up the rights of the poor, oppressed and forgotten without threatening those systems and people preserving the status quo.
Is that a political message? You bet! Does it belong in the church? Absolutely. Can you think of a better place to proclaim the Gospel?
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