ONLINE WORSHIP

Join us for online worship this Sunday, October 4, at 10:15 a.m. at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

It’s getting late in the election cycle, so, of course, God is being dragged into the conversation in the usual troubling ways.

Last Wednesday the President, referring to his illness said, “I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it,” And in an interview on Tuesday Jane Fonda said: “I just think Covid is God’s gift to the left,” adding, “That’s a terrible thing to say”—which, of course, it is.

Those on the left and those on the right, please hear me: A pandemic that has killed 1,400 people in Iowa, 212,000 people in the United States, and over one million people worldwide, a pandemic that has shattered economies and lives, that has disrupted just about everything is not a blessing from God. It is not a gift from God.

Mixing religion and politics is nothing new for Congregationalists. Join us as think about how we can do this with integrity.

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Leviticus 12:1-2, 9-18; Matthew 22:34-40

SERMON       “God and Politics”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

ANTHEM       “Psalm 23”      Srul Irving Glick

                        Wen Chin Liu, Avery Nabholz, Kristin Ramseyer, Marie Von Behren

 

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome to join us online.