by Chris Marlin-Warfield | Dec 30, 2014 | News
Join us for a special worship service at 10:30am on Sunday January 4th. We will celebrate an early Epiphany with a brass band and holy communion. The message, “The Place Where the Star Stops and the Baby Cries,” will invite us to consider the place of...
by Chris Marlin-Warfield | Dec 28, 2014 | Sermons
December 28, 2014 Church of Peace, United Church of Christ Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield Luke 2:22-40 Signs of Life It happens to our littlest children, and they get it. They absolutely understand. Somebody else is more powerful or more popular. There is an In Group,...
by Chris Marlin-Warfield | Dec 21, 2014 | Sermons
December 21, 2014 Church of Peace, United Church of Christ Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield Luke 1:26-38 Signs Right Here You might have seen the new movie called Theory of Everything. It was released last month, and it tells the love story of Stephen Hawking and his first...
by Chris Marlin-Warfield | Dec 21, 2014 | Events, Headline
This Christmas Eve the Church of Peace United Church of Christ in Rock Island, Ill., welcomes the Peace Light of Bethlehem for its 10:30 p.m. Candlelight Service on Wednesday, December 24, 2014. This light was shared from the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem that...
by Chris Marlin-Warfield | Dec 18, 2014 | News
In this season of wild angels and strange stars, it makes sense to look to the heavens to see a sign of God bursting into our world. But what if God is closer than we think? In a sermon called “Signs Right Here” we’ll consider how our own bodies...