Rev. Delle McCormick Sr. Pastor Rincon Congregational UCC Tucson Az

Partakers of Grace

5/22/2017

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Readings: Philippians 1:1-11 and Grace by Joy Harjo

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Eat Well and Resist

5/8/2017

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Rev. Rich Smith was the guest worship leader on May 7, 2017.

Food is not matter
but the heart of matter,
the flesh and blood of
rock and water, earth and sun.
- Edward Espe Brown

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 11:17-24, 33-34
Empty Plate by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Recognizing Jesus

5/1/2017

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The Christ is not the one who wins the power struggle; he is the one who loses it. The Christ is not the undefeated champion; he is the suffering servant, the broken one, who comes into his glory with his wounds still visible. Those hurt places are the proof that he is who he says he is, because the way you recognize the Christ--and his followers--is not by their muscles but by their scars. – Barbara Brown Taylor

Readings: Luke 24:13-35
The Servant Girl at Emmaus (A Painting by Velazquez) by Denise Levertov

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A Certain Faith

4/24/2017

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The Rev. Elizabeth Lyman served as the guest worship leader on April 23,2017.

“My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers—even the answers they themselves believed. I don’t know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being “politically conscious”—as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Scripture reading: John 20:19-31

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