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A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the CHURCH OF CHRIST, UNION Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 4, 2013 Meditation Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ’s love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ’s love so wishes our joy that it is… Read more.

Emma’s Quilt This quilt was a gift to our mother from Emma, an elderly neighbor in rural Missouri, who lived “down the road” from our farm. One day in the early 1950s, shortly before Emma and her brother moved to be closer to relatives, she walked the half-mile to our house bearing a large bundle… Read more.

This week we shared reflections from the delegation to El Salvador.  They reflected on their experiences in light of the Lord’s Prayer, which we said together in both English and Spanish.  As we pray this week, we pray for people around the world still fighting for basic justice and fair treatment.  — Rev. Rachel God,… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Tenth Sunday after Pentecost            July 28, 2013   Please use this bulletin to follow along in our worship service.  You can view the service by clicking “Watch Video” on the homepage.   Do I not destroy my enemies when I make… Read more.

2013 August Consider

In the reading for this week, we enter the house of Mary and Martha. One of them is doing the exact right thing in the wrong way, and the other is doing the wrong thing in the right spirit. We find ourselves in both of these situations, seeking to balance competing goods, competing needs. Here… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Ninth Sunday after Pentecost     July 21, 2013   When we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us.  So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of… Read more.