AGAIN & AGAIN

AGAIN & AGAIN

Year after year, the Church tells the story of God, Creation, Christ, and the Church with a series of seasons and feasts that help us remember who we are and whose we are. Part of the great historical tradition of the Church down the centuries, AGAIN & AGAIN we prepare for the great celebration of Christ’s Resurrection with the season of Lent, a time of reflection, repentance, and renewal.

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HERE ON THE THRESHOLD OF LENT

HERE ON THE THRESHOLD OF LENT

This ASH WEDNESDAY (February 17) will be a short time of online worship but one that is rich with meaning and filled with spiritual nourishment for our Lenten road ahead. May we come together in our very humanness, knowing that we are dust but that in God’s hands, dust lives and we belong to God. Click through for more details …

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STAND AND DELIVER

STAND AND DELIVER

Many a Christian has committed to memory certain scriptures in their lives only later to find that memorized verse encourages strength or comfort in a moment unrelated or unintended. “If a country were a classroom, even when a poem might not heal it, it can suture it. It can be balm, waiting to heal, if only we can listen. A good poem understands that is not going to happen today, it says – listen! And it regrets its necessity, that its hunger is both promise and regret.” Click through for more …

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THE LONGEST NIGHT

THE LONGEST NIGHT

The LONGEST NIGHT has become an expression for the spiritual journey of grief and loss over the past decade at Union Avenue Christian Church. This year’s Longest Night Worship Service. Monday, December 21, 7 p.m. on Zoom is intended to give voice to our sadness and grief in this year of unprecedented loss and anguish in our world … in our country … in our community. Click through to learn more …

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