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Sunday on the Commons
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Weekly podcast of sermons from the United Congregational Church of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Most weeks will feature our Senior Pastor, the Rev. Rebecca Floyd Marshall, in the pulpit, but guest preachers step in from time to time as well.
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Mountaintop Experiences | February 27, 2022
Mar 4, 202200:17:36Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month “The soul can split the sky in two And let the face of God shine through” –Edna St. Vincent Millay A Prayer for Ukraine Exodus 34:29-35 Luke 9:28-36 Give to the Offering
Transcribe →Its Not Just About Winning Gold | February 20, 2022
Feb 25, 202200:21:52Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month “Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.” ― Wendell Berry A Prayer for Ukraine 1 Corinthians 1:18-24 Luke 6:27-38 Give to the Offering
Transcribe →Where Do We Go From Here? | January 23, 2022
Jan 26, 202200:24:16Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month “Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.” –Thomas Merton 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a John 17:20-23 Special thanks to our new Interim Director of Music Raymond Buttero for the organ music this week. Give to the Offering
Transcribe →Remembering the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr | January 16, 2022
Jan 20, 202200:44:51Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” --The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew 5:38-48 Special thanks to our new Interim Director of Music Raymond Buttero and to Deborah Johnson and Sarah Whitehead for lending their voices to this week's service. Give to the Offering
Transcribe →God With Us: Baptism of Jesus | January 9, 2022
Jan 14, 202200:16:53Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month "“How about infant baptism? Shouldn't you wait until the child grows up enough to know what's going on?... When it comes to the forgiving and transforming love of God, one wonders if the six-week-old screecher knows all that much less than the archbishop of Canterbury about what's going on.” –Frederick Buechner We're reviving the podcast for 2022! Genesis 1:1-5 Matthew 3:13-17 Special thanks to our new Interim Director of Music Raymond Buttero and to Sarah Whitehead for lending her voice to this week's service. Give to the Offering | Watch the video version of this service.
Transcribe →Subversive Wisdom | Jeremy Langill | August 15, 2021
Aug 17, 202100:22:10Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month "You do not have to be good. You do no have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you about mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prayer and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things." - Mary Oliver, Wild Geese This week we welcome Jeremy Langill, our new Director of Faith Formation and Outreach, to the pulpit for the first time. Proverbs 9:1-6 John 6:51-58 Special thanks to Nancy Nicholson, our guest organist this week. Give to the Offering | Watch the video version of this service.
Transcribe →Faith is Getting in the Boat | August 8, 2021
Aug 10, 202100:21:43Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month Psalm 107:23-32 John 6:15-21 Give to the Offering | Watch the video version of this service. We gratefully recognize the talents of the Spindle Rock River Rats who played for us this morning.
Transcribe →Satisfied | August 1, 2021
Aug 5, 202100:18:03Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month Gracious God, it would have been enough if you had given us life and breath, but you also gave us hearts to love and hands to build and pray and hold each other. You gave us imagination and ingenuity. You gave us minds to choose and to perceive and to dream. You gave us senses-- to taste and feel and see and smell and hear. You gave us this earth with oceans and mountains, season and rhythms, dawnings and sunsets. It would have been enough if you had given us life and breath, God, but you have given us far more, always abundantly more. You gave us Your love and Your presence, Your Spirit to guide us, And You gave us Your Son, Jesus, the bread of heaven. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21 Mark 6:35-44 Give to the Offering | Watch the video version of this service. We gratefully recognize the talents of Sue Rousseau who filled on organ this morning for us.
Transcribe →Space for Silence | Sermon from July 25, 2021
Jul 27, 202100:22:10Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month “Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.” ― Thomas Merton Psalm 131 Mark 6:30-34; 45-46 Give to the Offering | Watch the video version of this service. We gratefully recognize the talents of Sue Rousseau who filled on organ this morning for us.
Transcribe →“Unbearable Words” | Guest Minister: Rev. Dr. Richard L. Floyd | July 11, 2021
Jul 11, 202100:53:04Tap to summarizewww.ucclittlecompton.org | Support Our Ministry with $5 a Month “What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The light is breaking through. So, listen to the weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political and religious leaders with the inside track. We ignore them at our own peril. Listen to the voices crying from the wilderness. They are pointing us to a new King and a better kingdom.” - Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again Scripture Reading 1: Amos 7:7-17 — Read by Nancy Dymecki Scripture Reading 2: Mark 6:14-29 — Read by Prudence Fallon Give to the Offering | Watch the video version of this service. We gratefully recognize the talents of our congregation without which this would not be possible. We’d like to thank the following for their talents this morning: Guest Minister: Rev. Dr. Richard L. Floyd Musician: Michael Bahmann Our readers: Nancy Dymecki & Prudence Fallon
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