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Transgender Day of Remembrance and candle lightening Service Location: United Church of Hyde Park Scripture: Isaiah 65:17-25 Sermon title: No more cry of distress, says the Lord!   1. Greetings   Thank you to those who answered the call to light the candles, for you have brought more light to our community. When I listened to the 67 names, I was terrified. There are four teenagers on the list. When Asher Garcia died, he was a high school eighth-grade student in Frazee, Minnesota. He suffered sexual and physical abuse as a child, and those repressed memories dug their way to the surface, like a bad dream, but he could not wake up. Asher died at the age of 14, suicide. [1] While Ace Scott died, he has been in state custody for five years since 2017. While awaiting placement, he ran away from the hospital, where he was taken “for concerns related to a known medical condition.” Ace died at the age of 15. His body was found in an abandoned lot in Kansas City, Miss...

 S cripture: Amos 7:7-17 Sermon: The Plumb line and where to find it Date: July 10 2022 Location: United Church of Hyde Park   0. Greetings The Book of Amos is a famous book and a controversial one used by people for different purposes. Such as Martin Luther King’s famous “ I have a dream ” speech quotes from the Book of Amos, saying “ LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN ” (Amos 5:24) to “denounces religious hypocrisy and economic inequality.” [1] The connection between social justice and Amos was strongly secured during the civil rights movement in the 1970s. However, and ironically, the same verse is also used by some conservative Christians, such as “pro-life Christians,” to denounce those too liberal/pro-choice Christians. They are worried that the evil behavior will bring humankind back to the dark age, and then suffer from the wrath of God. [2] 1. the background and context of/around the scripture There are five visions of Amos from God in this book. The scripture is ...

  Sermon: Holy Spirit! Come and renew us! Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2:1-21 Date: June 5, 2022 Location: Glen Ridge Congregational Church, NJ (church website,  https://www.glenridgecong.org/ ) Peng-An, おはようございます, and good morning. It’s my honor to be here, sharing the message, and worshiping with you. Greetings are also from the Chicago Metropolitan Association of Illinois Conference and Association Minister, Rev. Terrill Murff, and my home church, United Church of Hyde Park, senior minister, Rev. Charlene Hill. May the peace of Christ be with you and may God bless the ministries you are doing now and going to do in the near future. I believe they might be participating in the service right now via watching our Facebook streaming service in Chicago. Maybe, having an early tea and pancake with them. It’s pretty amazing that our church can reach out to different people, far and near, in real-time just like right now, and at any time. The definition of “being ...

Sermon title: Face to Face with G*d Scripture: Exodus 34:29-35 (cf. Luke 9:28-36, 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2) Location: United Church of Hyde Park Date: February 27, 2022 (Transfiguration Sunday)   1. greetings and opening Today is Transfiguration Sunday. Transfiguration Sunday also means the end of the season of Epiphany and the preparation for the season of Lent. In the US, this is the last Sunday of African American History Month. Our church integrates related messages in our services, newsletters, and social media platforms. By doing so, we want to demonstrate the essence of systematic discrimination against our African American siblings in the past, how we are working collaboratively now, and the vision of an equality that we want to provide in the near future. In Taiwan and around the world, today is the day some Taiwanese Christians will host memorial services for those who were murdered on February 28, 1947, the so-called “228 Massacre,” and the 43-year white te...