Yes! We're Open: Living Faith with Needham UCC
Rev. John MacIver Gage uses insight, humor, hard truth and amazing grace to help us make sense of our Christian faith in our daily life and vice-versa. The Congregational Church of Needham is a radically inclusive, justice-seeking Christian community, a member congregation of the United Church of Christ denominational family. Join us for worship LIVE! via Zoom Sundays @ 10am. Connection info and more at www.NeedhamUCC.org.
Podcasting since 2020 • 87 episodes
Yes! We're Open: Living Faith with Needham UCC
Latest Episodes
Honeybees and Hallelujahs (Earth Sunday)
This Earth Sunday, we celebrate not God’s gift of the earth to us, but God’s gift to us of our interconnected relationship with the earth, God’s wider, deeper, higher, and altogether “very good” creation of which we are a part...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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26:13
Resurrection is for Everyone
At last we arrive at Easter Sunday. But oddly enough, Matthew's version of the story of the resurrection begins on Good Friday, with what sounds at first like a ghost story about tombs being opened and the dead walking. But it's a reminder that...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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29:10
Step by Step: Holy Saturday, The Last Step
Our purpose in this Lenten series has been to slow down and spend significant time reflecting on each step of the story of Jesus’ last days during what we call Holy Week. But he dies on Good Friday. So what happens, if anything, on Holy Saturda...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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22:49
Step by Step: Prepared (Holy Wednesday)
A guided meditation: Did you know that before there was a Last Supper, there was a First Supper, when Jesus was prepared to endure the terrible events of the rest of Holy Week by the love of his friends. In particular, one woman anointed ...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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29:17
Step by Step: Controversies ("Holy Tuesday")
Jesus continues to wear out his welcome in Jerusalem. The various power blocs within the religious leadership of the day pepper him with questions, often trick questions, hoping to discredit him and his disciples in the eyes of the faithful wit...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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