Recent Sermon Videos
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We know life is busy, so if you have to miss a Sunday but don't want to miss a sermon, check out the videos of recent sermons posted below. And if you're looking to find out more about what and how we believe at The Congregational Church of Needham, UCC, here's an easy and risk-free way to do just that. Take a listen and then think about joining us in person some Sunday soon.  Check out our complete catalog of sermon videos on YouTube here.

"Creation as Sacrament: Finding God in the World"
September 20, 2020
A sacrament is an "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Since the whole world is shaped by God's hand, we can read creation as a sacrament, not as a rite, but a relationship, not as dogma but as lived connection, so we may grow in faith by reflecting on how the world wordlessly reflects our relationship with God, our neighbors, and ourselves, back to us. At the heart of this Sunday's message, we'll hear from poet Wendell Berry's The Farm. (Romans 1:20)

More Recent Sermons

 "The Church was Always More than a Building, Anyway"
September 13, 2020
The word "unprecedented" may have lost some of its shock value over a year like this. But every church in every age has faced their own particularly challenges, and these are ours. Our call is to run the race set before us, not anyone else's. And God has given us everything we need to rise to the occasion with grace and courage, vulnerability and resilience. Maybe we can't safely worship in our building right now, but we can definitely "do church" without it After all, the church was always more than a building, anyway. (Hebrews 4:1-3)

"A Frayed Knot"
September 6, 2020
Our all-American fixation on rugged individualism aside, that's just not the way God made us. If this present moment shows us anything, it's just how bound up together we really are, biologically, psychologically, economically, morally, "tied in one single garment of destiny" (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). And God is the weaver who knits us up together. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12)

"Job Laments: Seeking Understanding When Everything Has Fallen Apart"
August 30, 2020
"Why do people suffer? Is God really in charge and really good? And how can we understand the our lives, especially when everything comes unraveled.” A rich, poetic reflection in words, images, and music on Job's lament and God's answer.