Choosing People (A Year W Sermon)

If you’ve been around the church at all, especially around Christmas time, you’re likely familiar with the story of the Annunciation, when God announces to Mary that has been chosen to bear a special blessing. But the Biblical witness is that God chooses lots of people, many even less well-off and far less well remembered than Mary, including Hagar. (Luke 1:26-38; Genesis 16:7-13)  Preacher: The Rev. John MacIver GageThis sermon is part of our yearlong Year W journey, a year listening for the voices of women, girls, and the divine feminine in scripture with the guidance (and translations) of Prof. Wil Gafney and her "A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church: Year W" (https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-women-s-lectionary-for-the-whole-church-year-w-wilda-c-gafney/17214332?ean=9781640654747)Join us Sundays for worship, LIVE! on-site and online via Zoom @ 10am ET. Connection info at www.NeedhamUCC.org.---The Congregational Church of Needham strives to be a justice-seeking, peace-making, love-affirming, LGBTQ-welcoming, radically inclusive congregation of the United Church of Christ in Needham, MA.Church is the practice.Love is the point.