welcome – Grace United Church of Christ

One of Us

2025-05-18
Rev. Dr. William R. Nirote

All of us are welcomed into the church. A miracle can happen when we move out of our comfort zone. We know how to divide, the miracle is when we choose to bring together.

We Can’t Look Away

2025-01-19
Rev. Keith McDevitt

God calls us to welcome the immigrant, the refugee. Jesus was an undocumented refugee as a child. We cannot look away.

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.

Triggered

2022-09-11
Rev. Keith McDevitt

Jesus wants us to welcome the questionable, the outcast, the marginalized. Jesus tells the story of the lost sheep, not for the 1, but for the 99 who are just as lost. “No one is free until all are free.”

Who is Worthy?

2022-08-28
Rev. Keith McDevitt

Jesus kept blurring boundaries to welcome the outcast, the different, the other. Do we? We can’t ignore the real problems in the world. We will experience a blessing which changes us for the better.

A Love With No Boundaries

2022-03-27
Rev. Keith McDevitt

To love with our whole heart, means that sometimes our heart will break. But God doesn’t care, God loves us and welcomes us home. We have played each part in this story, let us play the part of the father and includes and celebrates the one who returns home.