by Communications Coordinator | Mar 21, 2023 | Sermons
Shipping into our Future (delivered by Rev. Jane Courtright) March 29, 2023 The story of the 53 Mendi captives who rose up against their oppressors – The Amistad story, is about the soul of our United Church of Christ! This is because, as the Prophet Micah...
by Communications Coordinator | Feb 27, 2023 | Sermons
Feb. 19, 2023 SERMON ‘Right Under Our Eyes!’ Rev. Jane Courtright I wore contact lenses for many years! One day, while putting them into my eyes, I dropped one! I looked down, onto my bathrobe, the edge of the sink & on the floor below me. Right then, my...
by Communications Coordinator | Feb 14, 2023 | Sermons
February 12, 2023 SERMON ‘Eyes, Shoes & Bridges’ Rev. Jane Courtright From the Jewish tradition has come wonderful stories & storytellers. In these stories, those of Jewish faith don’t mind poking fun at themselves. Here are two examples: ...
by Communications Coordinator | Feb 6, 2023 | Sermons
February 5, 2023 SERMON: ‘You. Yes, YOU!’ Rev. Jane Courtright I read of a couple of researchers who’ve been conducting experiments on salt! I imagine that they obtained a grant of some sort! We North Americans consume great quantities of the stuff, in...
by Communications Coordinator | Feb 1, 2023 | Sermons
January 29, 2023 SERMON: ‘THAT Kind of Silence’ Rev. Jane Courtright It is NOT the kind of silence that sweeps across a congregation or any community gathered for worship – when they feel in their gut…they just KNOW that somehow they have been touched and bound...
by Communications Coordinator | Jan 24, 2023 | Sermons
‘Passing the Torch’ Rev. Jane Courtright (January 22, 2023) Before I accepted my call into ministry, I was the youth director & high school Sunday School Teacher at the 1st Congregational UCC in West Dundee, Il. The Associate Pastor...
