24 Aug 2021 0 Comment

A Smudge and an Ugly Sneer

Author: Jean Abbott  Jean Abbott, M.D., is a mostly retired emergency medicine physician. The following is a condensed version of a meditation she shared last month at evening church. Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures,...
17 Aug 2021 0 Comment

THE QUEST for Who He is

Author: William B. Jones “He comes to us as one unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew him not.  He speaks to us the same word: ‘Follow thou me!’ and sets us to the tasks which He has...
10 Aug 2021 0 Comment

Not my Will but Yours

Author: Nicole Speer Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done. ~Luke 22:42 At some point during the previous administration, when our government was yet again kidnapping children of...
3 Aug 2021 0 Comment

Stop, Look and Listen

Author: Karen Hoover   Some of you will remember what we learned to do “back in the day” when we came to an unguarded railroad crossing—we stopped, we looked, and we listened to determine if it was safe to cross....
29 Jul 2021 0 Comment

College Age – End of Summer Get Together – August 7

Hey Parents of Young Adults, The summer is almost over. But we still have time to reconnect after a crazy year and a half of craziness. Because we don’t have most of your young adults contact info, we are reaching out to you parents to...
28 Jul 2021 0 Comment

Covid Safety Update

Dear First Congregational Church Members and Friends,   The Covid Safety Team continues to monitor the situation in Boulder County and elsewhere in order to provide safe avenues to gather and worship. The 20% increase in Covid...
27 Jul 2021 0 Comment

Servant Love

Author: John Bisceglia Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom...
20 Jul 2021 0 Comment

Plenty

Author: Nicole Speer There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. ~1 John 4:18 People who were with the church at the start of the year will remember the Epiphany gifts from the Stewardship Committee. Being on the...
15 Jul 2021 0 Comment

Investing in Community Partnerships

  First Congregational Church Boulder, UCC strives to embody the call to be a good neighbor—in how we relate to one another as well as how our congregation relates to the larger community. The Board of Missions and Christian...
13 Jul 2021 0 Comment

Who is Your Brother?

Author: Martha Palmer     http://survivingchurch.org/2019/09/05/who-is-my-enemy-when-the-church-needs-to-listen-better/   Trevor Hudson, in Questions God Asks Us, has a chapter on God’s question to Cain,...