Luke – Grace United Church of Christ

Faithful or Faithless

2025-03-16

Martha was the good servant, doing what was needed. Mary sat and listened. Sitting with the word of God is important, too. What matters is not what we do, but how/why we do it.

Stranger or neighbor

2025-03-09
Rev. Keith McDevitt

How do we recognize that everyone in our community is our neighbor? Everyone deserves our love. Everyone receives God’s love.

With All Your Heart, Love

2025-02-23
Rev. Keith McDevitt

If we don’t transform hate, we will transmit it. Human beings are not the enemy. The enemy is the violence and injustice inside us all.

You are invited to share in the peace that Christ brings into the world. When you experience the love of God, you can’t help but want to share that with others. Let us share that love and the peace it brings.

Mary’s Song of Liberation

2024-12-22
Rev. Keith McDevitt

As we wait for Christmas, Marry reminds us that God chooses the lowly, the poor, the refugee, and God sends away the rich and privileged. God favors the disadvantaged, the oppressed and the marginalized and brings wholeness.

Patience

2024-12-01
Rev. Keith McDevitt

Outrage as the only response won’t help anything. How we wait makes a difference. How will we as people of faith wait for the coming of shalom?

Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?

2024-03-31
Rev. Keith McDevitt

We are hanging on to hope and then we find the tomb empty. We are looking in the wrong place. Jesus has left the building. At the empty tomb, we experience awe. Now we need to go back out into the world, too.

There is Room

2023-12-24
Rev. Keith McDevitt

The story may not have changed, but we have. The world has changed and so there is new meaning to be had in this story. There may not have been room in the inn, but we need to make room for the marginalized, the excluded, the refugee, the victimized and we will find Jesus.