WORSHIP WITH US on Sunday, August 23, at 10:15 a.m.

WE LIVE STREAM OUR WORSHIP SERVICES AT 10:15 ON SUNDAY MORNING. You can join us online in real time at https://vimeo.com/event/1424751. This streaming address is the same each week.

The video of Sunday’s worship service will be posted after worship at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

Last Sunday I began this series of sermons looking at the real and the artificial. How do we know the difference? What are the perils and possibilities that they present?

Replicas of the real thing abound. So we would do well to take the advice of First Timothy as it encourages us: “Take hold of the life that is really life.”

What is this “real life?” How do we make sure that the life we are living is the real thing rather than an “authentic replica?” And how are we to grasp onto it?

These are good questions at any time, but they seem especially appropriate today as we stand on the brink of a new school year and a new program year here at Congregational UCC. As the summer winds down, it seems fitting to make sure that the life we are living is really life.

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Deuteronomy 30:19-20: I Timothy 6:17-19

SERMON: “The Real and the Artificial, Part II: Take Hold of Real Life”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

ANTHEM       “Sonntag”                              Andrew Knapp

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.