Tom Emanuel
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY... This Week at UCCW
“Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!” –Allen Ginsberg,...
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Tom Emanuel
- Jan 30, 2019
- 3 min
THE SHAPE OF MINISTRY TO COME… This Week at UCCW
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” --C.S. Lewis I’m a music nut, if you hadn’t noticed! And lately I’ve been...
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Tom Emanuel
- Jan 23, 2019
- 2 min
SINGING THE CHANGES... This Week at UCCW
“For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at...
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Tom Emanuel
- Jan 16, 2019
- 1 min
WATER INTO WINE... This Week at UCC Watertown
“The miracle has only half its effect if it only convinces us that Christ is God: it will have its full effect if whenever we see a...
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Tom Emanuel
- Jan 9, 2019
- 2 min
Little Epiphanies
“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.” --Gracie Allen Gracie Allen’s quote is where the United Church of Christ gets its...
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Tom Emanuel
- Dec 26, 2018
- 1 min
THE WORK OF CHRISTMAS... This Week at UCCW
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” --Laura Ingalls Wilder Happy Holidays...
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Tom Emanuel
- Dec 19, 2018
- 2 min
PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITY... This Week at UCCW
“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” --Madeleine L’Engle...
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Tom Emanuel
- Dec 12, 2018
- 3 min
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE... This Week at UCC Watertown
“We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and to discover who we could become.” --Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater practitioner &...
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Tom Emanuel
- Dec 5, 2018
- 3 min
LIGHT ONE CANDLE… This Week at UCC Watertown
“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we are each free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of...
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Tom Emanuel
- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR... This Week at UCC Watertown
“You take it on faith, you take it to the heart - the wai-i-iting is the hardest part." --Tom Petty, "The Waiting" Happy New Year! …New...
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Tom Emanuel
- Nov 21, 2018
- 3 min
THANKSGIVING, THANKSGRIEVING... This Week at UCC Watertown
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and...
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Tom Emanuel
- Nov 14, 2018
- 3 min
HOPE IN THE DARK... This Week at UCC Watertown
“To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than...
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Tom Emanuel
- Nov 7, 2018
- 3 min
REMEMBRANCE DAY... This Week at UCC Watertown
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” --Ernest Hemingway Around Veterans Day (or...
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Tom Emanuel
- Oct 31, 2018
- 2 min
ALL SAINTS DAY... This Week at UCCW
“I am reminded of the biblical use of the term saint in the book of Acts. That it applies to each of us. All who are attempting to...
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Tom Emanuel
- Oct 24, 2018
- 3 min
BEARERS OF GOOD NEWS... This Week at UCC Watertown
"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.” --Wes Nisker The death of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi at the...
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Tom Emanuel
- Oct 17, 2018
- 3 min
SACRED MUSIC... This Week at UCC Watertown
“God gave us music, that we might pray without words." (from an inscription on a German opera house) At the Fall Meeting of the Prairie...
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Tom Emanuel
- Oct 10, 2018
- 3 min
RELIGION & POLITICS... This Week at UCC Watertown
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” --Mohandas K. Gandhi There are two cardinal sins...
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Tom Emanuel
- Oct 4, 2018
- 3 min
BIG SKY FAITH... This Week at UCC Watertown
“But what is there to see? The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.” --Kathleen Norris (from Dakota: A...
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Tom Emanuel
- Sep 26, 2018
- 3 min
PRACTICING GENTLENESSS... This Week at UCC Watertown
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” --Ian McLaren TW: sexual assault It's a difficult moment to be a woman in...
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Tom Emanuel
- Sep 19, 2018
- 3 min
ACCESS + INCLUSION... This Week at UCC Watertown
“Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” –Verna Myers This past Sunday I preached about encountering...
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