Colville United Church of Christ Sermons
Progressive Christian voice from a conservative area. Most of the sermons are from Rev Jim CastroLang, Pastor of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Colville, WA.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2019
18-1028 Celebrating Expressions Of Identity
This year we decided to have a little church fun. With Halloween in our sights we had a dress up and costume Sunday. Since how we dress is an expression of our identity - that is what the sermon fo…
00:21:03 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
18-1021 Engagement
Being a follower of Jesus is not a spectator sport. Seems simple enough yet we often fall into the same trap that the disciples James and John do in this story in Mark. We want jesus to comfort us,…
00:21:25 |
Tue 23 Oct 2018
18-1014 $$, Me, and God
Often considered a dangerous topic for a Pastor - at least in my tradition -- to talk directly in a sermon about money. The Rich Young Man story in Mark was the push but also since our Church is the…
00:32:54 |
Mon 15 Oct 2018
18-1007 From Binary To Spectrum
On this World Communion Sunday, we looked at the problem of a divided world, divided Christianity, and divided culture. The vision of World Communion Sunday is not being realized so what do we do. …
00:25:13 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
18-0930 A Bigger Vision
The story from the book of Numbers takes a sliver of the experience of the 40 year journey out of Egypt into the Promised Land. It seems complaining to God through Moses regularly happened on this j…
00:35:07 |
Mon 01 Oct 2018
18-0923 Play Time
Do you think God is playful? Were we created to be playful? Should we take the quality of our play serious? You could argue that the book of the Bible that is most playful -- it has to be the Song…
00:22:02 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
18-0916 New Covenant 2018 With Pastor Steve Lucas
Two Churches - Chewelah & Colville UCC worship together in the park. Two Pastors - Steve Lucas & Jim CastroLang - talking about God's new covenant and what our two churches only 20 minutes away on t…
00:20:57 |
Mon 17 Sep 2018
18-0902 Hypocrites And Folly
Do you think there is a lot bad behavior in our culture today? Some might suggest that this is a crisis. How did we get here? In the UCC, we focus on fixing the bad behavior that leads to great in…
00:31:06 |
Mon 03 Sep 2018
18-0826 Will God Rescue Us
The rescuing aspect of God is explored in this sermon. Does God rescue? If yes, how does this work? What do you need to rescue from? What do we wish we could rescue the world from? I use a person…
00:20:40 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
18-0819 Wise Ones
Where is the Wisdom in the World today? This was one of our Pairing and Sharing questions today. This was a sermon about what blocks us from having more wisdom in our world. Upset by the betrayal …
00:20:33 |
Mon 20 Aug 2018
18-0812 Good Behavior
This was my "un-sermon_ of the year! If followers of Jesus can work on the guidelines from Paul to the Church in Ephesus, we can be a model for the world. Usually we are as reluctant as most people…
00:25:27 |
Mon 13 Aug 2018
18-0805 Do We Need The Bible Anymore?
As I looked at the sacred texts this week, all I could think about was that Franklin Graham is in the Pacific Northwest and coming to nearby Spokane in a few days. I am usually polite and in the UCC…
00:23:54 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
18-0729 Rita Stoess On Organ
Rita Stoess was the long time Organist (1972-1996)among other things for the Colville UCC. Since moving away she has remained close to the Church. Visiting today, Rita shared her great musical skil…
00:06:03 |
Mon 30 Jul 2018
18-0729 Jesus Follower Attitude
Five Loaves and Two Fish and 5,000 people. An impossible situation it would seem. Unless you adopt and Jesus Follower Attitude. Our pairing and sharing time was conversation about which type of pe…
00:20:09 |
Mon 30 Jul 2018
18-0722 The Days Are Surely Coming - Liz Gill
Church Leader Liz Gill led the sermon reflection time. She begins with a wonderful reflection about spiders. Yes, spiders! You have to hear it. This leads into our Church pairing and sharing time …
00:08:22 |
Thu 26 Jul 2018
18-0715 Our Belonging
A great day in Church as we had one baptism and 3 new members to the Church. It got me to thinking about "Belonging>" We belong to God and God belongs to us in our Church Community. What is the pu…
00:16:37 |
Mon 16 Jul 2018
18-0708 But I Don't Like Change
There is some basic logic in this message. Being a follower of Jesus leads to the invitation to Change. First, we must make changes. Second, we must be part of changing the world in ways of God's …
00:23:49 |
Mon 09 Jul 2018
18-0701 The Truth About Healing
Today''s focus was Healing as we looked at some healing stories of Jesus. How does physical healing happen? During our paring and sharing we were invited to address two things: *Tell a healing of t…
00:27:54 |
Mon 02 Jul 2018
18-0624 ONA Covenant Renewal
On June 24, 2018, the Colville UCC renewed its 6 year covenant as an Open and Affirming Church in the United Church of Christ. We did the in conjunction with ONA Sunday in the UCC. The renewal cere…
00:03:31 |
Mon 25 Jun 2018
18-0624 No Obstacles
Listen in and first you will hear the two Sacred Texts for today: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 and Mark 4:35-43. Then comes the introduction to our "Pairing & Sharing" time with the question - What are some…
00:23:06 |
Mon 25 Jun 2018
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