uccdewitt
@uccdewitt.bsky.social
An open and affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ in DeWitt, Iowa.
Sunday sermon preview: It’s easy to believe that we’re on our own and that we have to live that way: look out for number one, make our own way in the world, protect ourselves from the pain that could come. But the truth is that we are all in this together.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Sunday sermon preview: It’s easy to believe that we’re on our own and that we have to live that way: look out for number one, make our own way in the world, protect ourselves from the pain that could come. But the truth is that we are all in this together.
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Sunday sermon preview: In the prison of sin and death and everything that makes life less, it can be easy to lose ourselves to despair. But, even now, there are stories that the blind see, the lame walk, the sick are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor hear good news.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Sunday sermon preview: In the prison of sin and death and everything that makes life less, it can be easy to lose ourselves to despair. But, even now, there are stories that the blind see, the lame walk, the sick are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor hear good news.
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Sunday sermon preview: It’s easy to look around the world—to look at wars raging on and protestors being thrown to the ground—and think that violence is normal, inevitable, and eternal. It’s easy to look at the world and think that the road ahead will always be crooked and rough.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Sunday sermon preview: It’s easy to look around the world—to look at wars raging on and protestors being thrown to the ground—and think that violence is normal, inevitable, and eternal. It’s easy to look at the world and think that the road ahead will always be crooked and rough.
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Sunday sermon preview: It’s easy to fall into the despairing believe that nothing we do matters—that everything will be fine or everything will be terrible—and that we’re just waiting here to see the end of the story.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sunday sermon preview: It’s easy to fall into the despairing believe that nothing we do matters—that everything will be fine or everything will be terrible—and that we’re just waiting here to see the end of the story.
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Sunday sermon preview: The big parable ends with the story of a son who is jealous that his brother has been welcomed home so extravagantly. It is so easy to fall into jealousy when we see others receive what we have always enjoyed, as though that means that there will be less for us.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sunday sermon preview: The big parable ends with the story of a son who is jealous that his brother has been welcomed home so extravagantly. It is so easy to fall into jealousy when we see others receive what we have always enjoyed, as though that means that there will be less for us.
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Sunday sermon preview: The big parable begins with the story of a son who has to go home after losing everything. He does not expect a warm welcome; he expects shame. But his father welcomes him home with extravagant hospitality and an astonishing celebration. And that is who God is!
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Sunday sermon preview: The big parable begins with the story of a son who has to go home after losing everything. He does not expect a warm welcome; he expects shame. But his father welcomes him home with extravagant hospitality and an astonishing celebration. And that is who God is!
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Sunday sermon preview: Jesus starts this set of parables by talking about sheep and coins: about God searching for those who are lost.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sunday sermon preview: Jesus starts this set of parables by talking about sheep and coins: about God searching for those who are lost.
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Sunday sermon preview: At the very end of all things, where all things are made new, there is a tree whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sunday sermon preview: At the very end of all things, where all things are made new, there is a tree whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.
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Sunday sermon preview: We love our enemy neighbor! We avoid neighborliness by going in search of enemies, and, in the end, we discover that there are no enemies. For God is reconciling all people and all things, bringing us into the unity of love.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We love our enemy neighbor! We avoid neighborliness by going in search of enemies, and, in the end, we discover that there are no enemies. For God is reconciling all people and all things, bringing us into the unity of love.
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Sunday sermon preview: We love our imprisoned neighbor as ourselves! Each and every one of us has been imprisoned by the powers of sin and death and everything that makes life less, only to be freed by the grace of Jesus Christ and rehabilitated by the steadfast love of God.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We love our imprisoned neighbor as ourselves! Each and every one of us has been imprisoned by the powers of sin and death and everything that makes life less, only to be freed by the grace of Jesus Christ and rehabilitated by the steadfast love of God.
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Sunday sermon preview: We love our sick neighbor as ourselves! Christ heals the sick with the touch of his robe and raises the sleeping to new life; and we can provide healing to those who we can heal, hope to those who can accept hope, and peace where there can be peace.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We love our sick neighbor as ourselves! Christ heals the sick with the touch of his robe and raises the sleeping to new life; and we can provide healing to those who we can heal, hope to those who can accept hope, and peace where there can be peace.
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Sunday sermon preview: We love our beastly neighbors as ourselves! God formed every creature on this earth, God cares for every creature on this earth, and God loves every creature on this earth.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We love our beastly neighbors as ourselves! God formed every creature on this earth, God cares for every creature on this earth, and God loves every creature on this earth.
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So we love this way: we rise as a light in the darkness and satisfy the needs of the afflicted!
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September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
So we love this way: we rise as a light in the darkness and satisfy the needs of the afflicted!
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Sunday sermon preview: We love our hungry neighbor as ourselves! God has provided enough and more than enough that every stomach should be filled and every thirst should be slaked.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We love our hungry neighbor as ourselves! God has provided enough and more than enough that every stomach should be filled and every thirst should be slaked.
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Sunday sermon preview: “Love your neighbor as yourself,” is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sunday sermon preview: “Love your neighbor as yourself,” is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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Sunday sermon preview: Christ himself is the example as he pours himself out for the sake of the world; he finds his glory through humility. So be like Christ—abide in Christ—by abiding in humility. You might just find the glory that is waiting for you there.
August 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sunday sermon preview: Christ himself is the example as he pours himself out for the sake of the world; he finds his glory through humility. So be like Christ—abide in Christ—by abiding in humility. You might just find the glory that is waiting for you there.
Sunday sermon preview: We are made in the image of God. We are made in the image of love. And we are made to abide in love. So let us love one another; let us be perfected in love; let love be perfected in us; and let us stand, unafraid, before the God who is love!
August 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We are made in the image of God. We are made in the image of love. And we are made to abide in love. So let us love one another; let us be perfected in love; let love be perfected in us; and let us stand, unafraid, before the God who is love!
Sunday sermon preview: So much of human life—including so much of gender and sexuality—is about putting on our masks and playing our roles. Sometimes those roles are okay. Sometimes they are not. And part of the beauty of the gospel is that we don’t have to play any of them.
August 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sunday sermon preview: So much of human life—including so much of gender and sexuality—is about putting on our masks and playing our roles. Sometimes those roles are okay. Sometimes they are not. And part of the beauty of the gospel is that we don’t have to play any of them.
Sunday sermon preview: We have neat little boxes labelled ‘man’ and ‘woman’, ‘straight’ and ‘gay’, ’cis’ and ‘trans’. And we imagine that people will fit neatly into those boxes.
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July 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Sunday sermon preview: We have neat little boxes labelled ‘man’ and ‘woman’, ‘straight’ and ‘gay’, ’cis’ and ‘trans’. And we imagine that people will fit neatly into those boxes.
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Sunday sermon preview: The God who is love has made Cornelius clean, even though he is still a gentile, and still a Roman, and still a Centurion. And anyone who God has made clean, we cannot call profane, no matter who they are and no matter where they are on life’s journey.
July 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sunday sermon preview: The God who is love has made Cornelius clean, even though he is still a gentile, and still a Roman, and still a Centurion. And anyone who God has made clean, we cannot call profane, no matter who they are and no matter where they are on life’s journey.
Sunday sermon preview: Jesus has been crucified. Jesus has been buried. Jesus has risen. And Jesus still bears the wounds from all of that: the nail marks in his hands, the wound in his side, and, we can only imagine, more.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sunday sermon preview: Jesus has been crucified. Jesus has been buried. Jesus has risen. And Jesus still bears the wounds from all of that: the nail marks in his hands, the wound in his side, and, we can only imagine, more.
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Sunday sermon preview: God makes humanity in their image. But God is spirit and humanity is diverse, so how could God fit into a neat little gendered box?
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June 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sunday sermon preview: God makes humanity in their image. But God is spirit and humanity is diverse, so how could God fit into a neat little gendered box?
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Sunday sermon preview: On Pentecost, God does not pour out wine, but pours out the spirit! The young see visions! The old dream dreams! Sons and daughters prophesy! It is a new dawn! It is a new day! It is a new life, full of the spirit, wild and dangerous and full of grace!
June 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Sunday sermon preview: On Pentecost, God does not pour out wine, but pours out the spirit! The young see visions! The old dream dreams! Sons and daughters prophesy! It is a new dawn! It is a new day! It is a new life, full of the spirit, wild and dangerous and full of grace!
Sunday sermon preview: The oldest known wine press is in the middle of a burial site. Some cultures wash the bodies of the dead with wine. Christ drank sour wine on the cross. Wine is intimately associated with death.
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May 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sunday sermon preview: The oldest known wine press is in the middle of a burial site. Some cultures wash the bodies of the dead with wine. Christ drank sour wine on the cross. Wine is intimately associated with death.
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Sunday sermon preview: The cup that Christ offers is not an easy cup to drink from, but it is a cup that calls us from the comforts of what is to the glory of what will be. And Christ offers us the cup of the new covenant even to the one who will betray him.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sunday sermon preview: The cup that Christ offers is not an easy cup to drink from, but it is a cup that calls us from the comforts of what is to the glory of what will be. And Christ offers us the cup of the new covenant even to the one who will betray him.
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