Bethany UCC

Rev. Rebecca kicks off our May series with the weird, weirder, and weirdest stories of the Bible. This time, we're covering the she-bears and why they are in 2 Kings. Tune in all month for the wackiest stories and most unusual of characters!

Catch Rev Vince's last sermon before leaving for sabbatical for three months! He's gearing up for sabbatical with a sermon....about not necessarily being ready.

Rev Rebecca continues "Feast Days" with remembering through feasts. Freezing wedding cake, backpacking food, and final meals as well as what it means to re-constitute feasts.

Pastoral Intern Alaina (very soon to be Interim Pastor Alaina) kicked off our theme of Feast Days. She preaches about the importance of dancing and how it can be a spiritual practice. Get your dancing shoes on and give her sermon a listen!

Listen to Rev. Rebecca preach on Easter Sunday! Cloth, weaving, images, and more! We celebrate the Risen Lord together

Rev Vince covered our last "Sacred Sketchbook" theme with the image of the recognizable God. God as ordinary. God as familiar.

Rev. Rebecca is sharing another sacred sketchbook image of God. God as parent as connected to reclamation project.

Rev. Vince covers this week's Sacred Sketchbook image of God as the iconoclast. Famous artworks attacked or destroyed, such as Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch," Velazquez’ “Rokeby Venus,” climate activists gluing themselves to the frame of The Last Supper, and “Mona Lisa” attacked at least five times, in protest of accessibility, citizenship, climate crisis. Tune in to hear all the details o...

Rev Vince continues our Lenten theme with a sermon on the mystery of God. Multiplying images. Lots of pictures, but no one sees them exactly. We're going on expeditions for God.

Pastoral Intern Alana kicks off our Lenten series "Sacred Sketchbook" with the dark night of the soul. A sermon on when Alana stopped feeling God the way she had been. Sermon image provided by Zoom participant, who draws while they listen to the sermon.

Rev Rebecca is preaching our sermon this Shrove Sunday (otherwise known as Pancake/Waffle Breakfast)! We're talking loving, caring, and serving as we approach Lent.

Rev. Rebecca is using all the "flower stuff" this week for our theme of "Bleeding Hearts." Be tender. Deeply rooted. Tenderness and reserves. All will be covered in  this sermon!

Rev. Vince kicks off our new February series, "Bleeding Hearts," with the difference of earnestness and irony. Wholehearted faith vs halfhearted, half measures. Being unmixed, not hedging your bets, hot or cold not hot and cold.

Pastoral Intern Alaina continued our January series on the beginning of visions. The journey is where the visions begin, not before it begins. A faster, good decision is better than a slower, perfect decision. Give this sermon a listen as Alaina lets 'er rip!

Our November series, "Bethany Speaks," had three, amazing preachers as we prepared for Thanksgiving. We welcomed Mare, Ann, and Xander this week to share their wisdom in themes of Thanksgiving!

Rev. Rebecca tears into January with our new series, "Let 'er Rip!" Lydia saw something new (in the Jesus movement) that she thought was worth pouring herself into. It’s not their story anymore; it’s ours! The picture for this podcast showcases Pastoral Intern Alaina's liturgy for communion where she and a friend are at the river where Paul and Lydia met.

Rev Rebecca kicked off 2023 by welcoming us to the new year. New starts, new challenges, and getting ready for what's next are all welcome into our schedules. In this podcast, you can listen along to the guided meditation used during the service!

Rev. Vince gave Christmas an "edge" at our Christmas Eve service. In line with our theme "Holy Darkness," Christmas needs a reason, and the reason is suffering; the reason is oppression; the reason is evil. And the answer is joy.

Pastoral Intern Alaina continues our Advent theme with stories in the shadows. How are some of our best stories born in shadows? What does it mean to create in darkness? 

Rev. Rebecca continues our Advent series with dreams, in spite of believing that describing dreams is very, very boring. But it's Advent 4, and here's Joseph, the second dreaming Joseph in the Bible. We're talking about his dreams, our dreams, and, who knows, what Gd may have to say to us when we close our eyes.

Rev. Vince continues our advent series with a sermon on beginning our day with the night. In Jewish tradition, the new day begins at night rather than the morning. Though it can feel uncomfortable to be “in the dark” it’s where something new can happen, for us and for our world.

Rev. Rebecca launches our new series and the advent season with a sermon all about the ways darkness keeps us safe. In a world full of light pollution, how can we find safety in the darkness of night?

Our November series, "Bethany Speaks," continued with three, amazing preachers. We will be welcomed Nathan, Kate, and Bud to share their wisdom in themes of Witnessing, Listening, and Pentecost!

We had four INCREDIBLE preachers kick off our new sermon series, "Bethany Speaks!" All month, we are having members of the congregation give their sermons they've been working on. Up first, we have our four preachers for Sunday: Johnny, Scott, Joey, and Virginia! 

Intern Pastor, Alaina, finished our October series with the catch-22 of hope. Having hope can be really scary, so join us to hear what she has to say about facing that fear and keeping hope anyway.