New Faith Logo ,
UCC logo  
 
 
Contact Contact
 
 
 

This Week in Worship

Ken Herr gives the message this week.

Mark Your Calendar

WAY BEYOND COOL Study Group Thursday March 5 @ 6 p.m. Dinner @ 6 (RSVP to Diane Ott with what you will bring 885-2878) Study @ 7 – “Saving Jesus: The Kingdom of God.”

 

ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL for Pastor Paulsen, Saturday March 7 @ 10 a.m., Loomis Basin UCC. We will provide hospitality after the gathering. Bring something to share and please come and ask questions! I 80 to Horseshoe Bar exit, go right onto Taylor, and right onto King Road. (6440 King Road)

 

DAVE’S CAVE Friday March 13 – Vikki Lee & Bob Woods “Rockabilly Unleashed!”

 

COMMUNITY LENTEN SERVICES

 

March 4--at Bethlehem Lutheran Preaching: Rev. Dan Appel

March 11—at Auburn Presbyterian Preaching:  Dr. Gerry Paulsen  

March 18--at Pioneer Methodist Preaching:  Rev. Bryon Hansen

March 25--at First Congregational  Preaching:  Rev. Susan Plucker

April 1--at Mercy Center   Preaching:  Rev. John Broad  

 

LIVING WITH MONEY SERIES

 

 9:15 a.m. before worship in March - Light breakfast will be served

 

“When I’m talking about money, I’m not talking about the money You may be giving to your church or charity. I’m talking about 100% of your money

- ALL OF IT and HOW YOU LIVE WITH IT.” Davis Fisher

 

WEEK ONE (3/8) – What Is Money?

Defining Money

Messages from the Culture – The Meaning of Money

Money Taboos

WEEK TWO (3/15) – Know Your Money Life

Your Money Life

Money Styles

How Much Is Enough?

WEEK THREE (3/22) – Making Peace With Money

Money and the Bible

Money and the Christian Faith

WEEK FOUR (3/29) – Balancing Life’s Ledger

Practical Steps

Stewardship

Why Give?

 

NEW HORIZONS FOLLOWS WORSHIP March 8th.

 

COUNCIL FOLLOWS WORSHIP Sunday March 15th.

 

IN OUR PRAYERS: Baby Preston (birth defects), Bonnie Worthington (kidney surgery April 10), Linda Powers (chemo March 17th), the Francis family, all those affected by health and financial stresses.

 

IrRev. Dr. Gerry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theme: Always Close

 

Scripture: Genesis 17:1-7,15-16

 

Scripture online at http://www.ucc.org/worship/samuel/

Discussion:

We are early in Lent, a long way from Easter, whether the world wants to acknowledge that or not. Barbara Brown Taylor writes that "We do not head straight to Easter from the spa or the shopping mall. Instead, we are invited to spend forty days examining the nature of our own covenant with God. Upon what does that relationship depend? What do we trust to give us life? What concrete practices allow us to become bodily involved with God?" (Feasting on the Word).

Lent is a time for repentance, too, for facing the ways we are broken and have broken others and the world.  The world may not like the word "sin," but it is very much marked by it, and so are our own lives.  Still, the promises are everlasting, and God is with us, always, calling us to be God's people.  Willimon asks, "Is it possible for there to be a family of God, gathered not the way the world gathers (by class, race, status, etc.) but rather by the promises of God?" (The Lectionary Commentary). When we hear about the tragic conflicts between and among the descendants of Abraham, we know that we have a long, long way to go toward that dream of God.