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The Congregational Church of Needham, UCC
United States
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The Congregational Church of Needham is a radically inclusive, justice-seeking Christian community, a member congregation of the United Church of Christ denominational family. Join us for worship Sundays @ 10am LIVE! online via Zoom. Connection info at www.NeedhamUCC.org.
The Joys of Christmas -The Congregational Church of Needham
The Chancel Choir and Friendly Chimers of the Congregational Church of Needham performed the holiday concert on Sunday, December 8, 2024. Valerie J. Becker, Music Director.
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Hope : We Make the Road by Walking (Faith, Hope, & Love Abide, 2/3)
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In the wake of this election's seismic shift, we’re spending time grounding ourselves once more in the core message of 1 Corinthians 13:13-“Now faith, hope, and love abide, these three”-in ways that speak to our current situation, beginning with faith. This week it's hope. We talk about having hope, which sounds lovely... until you lose it. Then what are we supposed to do? But as peoples who've...
My Body is Not a Prayer Request
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The gospels are full of miraculous stories of Jesus healing people, but they’re never told from the point of view of the people he heals. The (temporarily) able-bodied Church today is only beginning to understand how problematic that really is, whether we take these stories literally or metaphorically. Because nobody’s body is just a metaphor, and, as disability justice advocates like author Am...
You Are Light
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“God’s love and kindness will shine upon us like the sun that rises in the sky” (Luke 1:78-9, CEV). A celebration more than a decade in the making! Come join us for a special worship service dedicating the new solar panel array on our sanctuary roof. This giant leap forward was made that much more possible through donations given in loving memory of Deb Baldwin, a founding member of our Environ...
Stitched Together (10-13-2024)
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*With apologies for the poorer than usual audio quality. In Mark 10:17-31, an insider the rich young ruler and an outsider Simon Peter both ask Jesus essentially the same question: "What must we do to be saved?" Jesus' answer disappoints them both. He's not interested in what will set either man apart in God's eyes but what will bring them together here on earth. While the would wants to divide...
Faith: Trust & Truth (Faith, Hope, & Love Abide, 1/3)
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In the wake of this election week’s seismic shift, we’re going to spend the next three Sundays looking to ground ourselves once more in 1 Corinthians 13:13-“Now faith, hope, and love abide, these three”-in ways that speak to our current situation. Faith isn’t a laundry list of six impossible things we have to believe before breakfast. Faith is trust (literally, in the New Testament Greek), and ...
Be Careful Which God You Do or Don't Believe In (09-15-2024)
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Shalom Auslander’s book, Beware of God, is full of cautionary tales about faith, including the short story “Waiting for Joe,” in which two hamsters from very different theological viewpoints try to cope with the absence of their owner. It may seem farcical on the surface, it’s a powerful call to interrogate our own faith (or lack thereof) and our image of God and remember that the God somebody ...
Join, or Die (09-08-2024)
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To combat the current epidemic of isolation, loneliness, disaffiliation, and division destroying our physical, mental, and political health, experts prescribe a dose of social connection. Joining, sharing, learning to trust... and to be trustworthy... helps repair our social fabric, and our souls. Because, as the Apostle Paul reminds us, human beings are made for community. So, given how we've ...
At Home
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“Even the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.” Every creature, all of creation, has a home in the heart of our Creator. Why is it often so hard for us to feel we do, too? (Psalm 84) Join us Sundays for worship, LIVE! on-site and online via Zoom @ 10am ET. Connect at www.NeedhamUCC.org. The Cong...
Fractal Faith (07-28-2024)
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In mathematics, a fractal is “a visual expression of a repeating pattern or formula that starts out simple and gets progressively more complex.” We see fractals in nature, in the patterns of pinecones and the spirals of sea shells, where, when we look closely, we see the signature of those basic building blocks repeating themselves throughout the whole. For us, God is that basic building block....
Edifice Complex (Sermon for July 21, 2024)
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Even since the time of King David, church buildings have been a mixed blessing-well, not exactly, but you get the idea. Religious communities, churches, need places to gather for worship, but all too often, we can end up worshiping the building, when really it’s just a tool, a gathering place and a base of operations for the broader ministries to our neighbors to which God calls us. So how do c...
Captivity
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The Church of Jesus Christ started out as a counter-cultural movement, a vision of how things ought to be to challenge the way things were, particularly for the people the powers of this world consider “the least of these.” But thanks to its adoption by the Roman Emperor Constantine, the church became one of those powers, kicking off the “captivity of the church,” the subjugation of the Gospel ...
The Perfectly Credible Tale of St. Marinos the Monk, or "We Have Always Been Here" (June 30, 2024)
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Marina was born in 5th Century Lebanon and assigned female at birth. When, after their mother died, their dad decided to enter a monastery, Marina went with him-as a man, Brother Marinos. But one day, he was unjustly accused of a crime he could not have committed and expelled from the community. It was only upon his death that the world learned the truth about Marinos: Lesbian, gay, and bisexua...
Lay Preaching Series: Prayer & Care
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This series of reflections are offered by members of our Prayer and Care team about the "whys" of their ministry with and to the community at Congregational Church of Needham, United Church of Christ. This sermon was offered on Sunday, February 25 by Dibby, John, and Sue.
Why Are You Doing This? (Palm Sunday)
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Why Are You Doing This? (Palm Sunday)
Lay Preaching Series: Environmental Ministries Team
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Lay Preaching Series: Environmental Ministries Team
Lay Preaching Series: Christian Education Committee
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Lay Preaching Series: Christian Education Committee
The Little Drummer Boy (A Non-Canonical Christmas, 3/3)
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The Little Drummer Boy (A Non-Canonical Christmas, 3/3)
The Donkey (A Non-Canonical Christmas, 2/3)
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The Donkey (A Non-Canonical Christmas, 2/3)
REJOICE AND BE MERRY! A Christmas Concert (12-03-2023)
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REJOICE AND BE MERRY! A Christmas Concert (12-03-2023)
The Innkeeper (A Non-Canonical Christmas, 1/3)
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The Innkeeper (A Non-Canonical Christmas, 1/3)
Mirror Image (Sermon for October 15, 2023)
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Mirror Image (Sermon for October 15, 2023)
This Barbie Doesn't Even Belong to Herself
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This Barbie Doesn't Even Belong to Herself
David and Jonathan Were More Than Roommates (Sermon for August 20, 2023)
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David and Jonathan Were More Than Roommates (Sermon for August 20, 2023)
Earth Sunday, 2023: All Creation, Yearning to Breathe Free
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Earth Sunday, 2023: All Creation, Yearning to Breathe Free
St. Marina the Monk is NOT TRANSGENDER. She is an Orthodox Saint don't disrespect her.
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3:03 Recorder Prelude: Fatto per la Notte de Natale, Concerto VIII, Arcangelo Corelli The Chancel Choir 10:35 Rejoice and Be Merry, John Rutter 13:36 O Come O Come Emmanuel, James Ray 17:16 When Angels Sing, Mark Miller 21:10 Rise Up Shepherd and Follow, Carl Davis 23:47 Early on a Winter's Morn, Jerome Williams 27:51 Ding Dong Merrily on High, Stephen Mager The Friendly Chimers 30:13 Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Lloyd Larsen 33:20 Away in a Manger/Still, Still, Still, Lloyd Larsen 36:00 Joy to the World, Lloyd Larsen The Chancel Choir 38:20 Good Christian Friends Rejoice, Daniel Forrester 41:13 O Little Town of Bethlehem, Julie Ann Ballard 46:01 Angels We Have Heard on High, David Cherwien 48:27 In the Bleak Midwinter, Philip Stopford 53:20 Riu Riu Chiu, Linda Spevacek 55:47 Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, John Gardner 58:38 Night of Silence/Silent Night, Daniel Kantor
Greetings to our friends at NCC from Marblehead. Merry Christmas to one and all. Frank and Chris Arren
A very special mural. Thanks to all the talented artists.
greetings Rev. GAge. thanks for the inspiring message.
great message
We four are gathered here in the living room, a fire in the fireplace, and SO ENJOYING this concert! Thank you so much to Valerie and David for putting it together, and to all the musicians. Christmas is happening, even in the midst of a pandemic. Love and joy to all.
Love this! So beautiful...Gramma ❤️
What a joy to listen to the virtual concert just now! Thank you so much for putting it together Valerie! I loved your selections and the musicians sounded wonderful!
Good word. I've missed your wise voice friend.
Thank you, Rev. John! What an uplifting message! I have subscribed, and look forward to listening to more of them as we move through corona times. Peace to you both!