This Week at Zion UCC
By Rev. Beth Gedert
This Week at Zion UCCMar 03, 2024
Whatever Happens, Keep Rising Up / 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
May 12, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 39 / Season: Eastertide 7
The Uprising of Stewardship / 2 Corinthians 8:1-15
May 5, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 38 / Season: Eastertide 6
The Uprising of Partnership / Matthew 10:1-33; 28:16-30
April 28, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 37 / Eastertide 5
The Uprising of Discipleship / John 21:1-15
April 14, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 35 / Season: Eastertide 3
The Uprising of Fellowship / John 20:19-31
April 7, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 34 / Season: Eastertide 2
The Power of Life / Luke 24:1-12
March 31, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 33 / Season: Easter Sunday
What Kind of King Do We Want? / Luke 18:29-46
March 24, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 32 / Season: Palm Sunday
The Lenten Disciplines / Matthew 6:1-18
March 3, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 29 / Season: Lent 3
Be "Perfect" (as God is "perfect") / Matthew 5:17-48
February 25, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 28 / Season: Lent 2
The Beatitudes / Matthew 5:1-16
February 18, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 27 / Season: Lent 1
Transfiguration: We Don't Always Get It Right / Matt 16:13-17:9
February 11, 2024 / Season: Transfiguration Sunday / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 25
The One About Hell / 1 Corinthians 3:10-15
February 4, 2024 / Season: Epiphany 5 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 24
Meet Jesus and Make Room / Luke 5:17-32, 18:15-19:9
January 28, 2024 / Season: Epiphany 4 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 23 / Also includes Zion wins from 2023 and priorities for 2024
Slow Down: Parables at Work / Mark 4:1-25,33-34
January 21, 2024 / Season: Epiphany 3 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 22
The Mystery of Miracles / Mark 1:21-32
January 14, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 21 / Season: Epiphany 2
The Baptism of Christ / Luke 3:1-22
January 7, 2024 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 19 / Season: Baptism of Christ, 1st Sunday after Epiphany
Love Now / Matthew 1:18-25
December 24, 2023 / Season: Advent 4 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 17
Joy Now / Luke 1:46-55
December 17, 2023 / Season: Advent 3 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 16
Peace Now / Isaiah 9:2-7
December 10, 2023 / Season: Advent 2 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 15
Hope Now / Isaiah 40:1-11
December 3, 2023 / Season: Advent 1 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 14
How to Read Violent Texts / Deuteronomy 7:1-11
November 12, 2023 / Season: Ordinary Time 32 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 11
10 Commandments for Community / Exodus 20:1-21
November 5, 2023 / Season: All Saints / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 10
Our Openness and God's Possibility / Exodus 3:1-15
October 29, 2023 / Season: Ordinary Time 30 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 9
Wrestling with God / Genesis 32:22--33:11
October 22, 2023 / Season: Ordinary Time 29 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 8
Get Off the Altar / Genesis 22:1-14
October 15, 2023 / Season: Ordinary Time 28 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 7
Blessed to Be a Blessing / Genesis 12:1-9
October 1, 2023 / Season: World Communion Sunday / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 6
Why We Need to be "Saved" / Genesis 4, 6, & 8
September 24, 2023 / Season: Creation 4 / We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 5
Sin & The Original Lie / Genesis 3:1-13
September 17, 2023 / Season: Creation 3 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 4
The Second Creation Story / Genesis 2:4-25
September 10, 2023 / Season: Creation 2 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 2
The First Creation Story / Genesis 1:1--2:3
September 3, 2023 / Season: Creation 1 / Series: We Make the Road by Walking, chapter 1
ONA Sunday: The Body of Christ / 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
August 20, 2023 / Open & Affirming Sunday / Season: Pentecost 12
Vocation - Who are you called to be, and what are you called to do?
August 13, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 8 / Season: Pentecost 11
Discernment as a Way of Life / Romans 12:1-2; Philippians 1:9-11
August 6, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 7 / Season: Pentecost 10
Reframing Regret / Psalm 51
July 30, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 6 / Season: Pentecost 9
The Holy Art of Attentiveness / Philippians 4:1-9
July 9, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 5 / Season: Pentecost 6
Experiencing God in Everyday Life / 1 Kings 19:6-17
July 2, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 4 / Season: Pentecost 5
Living into Our Values / Matthew 12:1-12,23-28
June 25, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 3 / Season: Pentecost 4
Openness: Embracing Holy Indifference / Ephesians 1:15-23
June 18, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 2 / Season: Pentecost 3
Listening to Your Longings / Matthew 9:14-22
June 11, 2023 / Series: Life on Purpose, week 1 / Season: Pentecost 2
God's Expansive Church / Acts 2
May 28, 2023 / Pentecost
Satisfying the Thirsty / 1 John 3:16-18
May 21, 2023 / Series: Jesus in Disguise, week 6 / Season: Eastertide 7
Caring for the Sick / Matthew 25:31-46
May 14, 2023 / Series: Jesus in Disguise, week 5 / Season: Eastertide 6
Feeding the Hungry / Matthew 25:41-46
May 7, 2023 / Series: Jesus in Disguise, week 4 / Season: Eastertide 5
Clothing the Naked / Luke 3:7-18
April 30, 2023 / Series: Jesus in Disguise, week 3 / Season: Eastertide 4
Visiting the Imprisoned / Matthew 25:31-46
April 23, 2023 / Series: Jesus in Disguise, week 2 / Season: Eastertide 3
Welcoming the Stranger / Deuteronomy 10:12-22
April 16, 2023 / Series: Jesus in Disguise, week 1 / Season: Eastertide 2
The Power of Life / Matthew 28:1-10
April 9, 2023 / Series: The Peaceable Kingdom / Season: Easter Sunday
Peaceable Kingdom: Justice Wins (Eventually) / Matthew 21:1-17
April 2, 2023 / Series: Peaceable Kingdom / Season: Palm Sunday
Principles of nonviolence from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Peaceable Kingdom: No Eternal Conscious Torment / Matthew 25:31-46
March 26, 2023 / Series: Peaceable Kingdom, week 5 / Season: Lent 5
Principles of nonviolence from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Peaceable Kingdom: Consequences of Nonviolence / Matthew 13:24-30
March 19, 2023 / Series: Peaceable Kingdom, week 4 / Season: Lent 4
Principles of nonviolence from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change