Posts Categorized: FUPC

UPY is on Summer Break!

Every year UPY takes an end-of-summer break before beginning again for the fall. We are not currently meeting weekly, but regular activities will resume sometime in August. We will let… Read more »

He Is Risen

Photograph of a cross on a hill with clouds behind

Jeremiah 31:1-6 1At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2   Thus says the LORD: The… Read more »

God So Loved the World

First United Presbyterian Church

In 1887, Sir John Stainer composed an oratorio entitled The Crucifixion: A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer. He intended this work to be within the scope… Read more »

A Table Before Me

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies” (Psalm 23:5) The last part of Psalm 23 is less familiar, in which the psalmist praises God for… Read more »

The Bread of Life

Gospel Reading John 6:27-40 27“Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For… Read more »

Shame and Grace

Lent is the season to remember the sacrifice of Christ. I cannot help but vividly imagine Jesus hanging on the cross, blood dripping from the wounds of the nails and… Read more »