Reimagining Faith with the Pastors Jackson

Sermon on Haggai 1:15-2:9 (Maxwell Staley)

This sermon was delivered by Maxwell Staley on November 6th 2022. Check out the full service at the link below...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLhnsXbJen0
 
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Sermon on 1 Samuel 24 (Pastor Nichole Jackson)

This sermon was delivered by Pastor Nichole on October 23rd 2022. Check out the full service at the link below...
 
https://youtu.be/fV936LiYE88
 
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The Fertile Ground of New Mysteries (Zack’s Story So Far)

Episode 9
This is part one of a two-part series in which the Pastors Jackson tell the stories of their own journeys of faith. Today is all about Zack and the often-painful path he took from dogmatic Christian Fundamentalist to Scientifically-Minded Christian Mystic. Buckle up. It's not a straight road, and its littered with reluctant deconstruction, cringey blog posts, hard-fought wisdom, and Amy Grant references!
 
Join us for Sunday worship services at the Steel River Playhouse (245 E High St, Pottstown, PA 19464) at 10am or online at https://www.opentablepottstown.com/live.
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Sermon on Joshua 24:1-15 (Pastor Nichole Jackson)

This sermon was delivered by Pastor Nichole on October 16th 2022. Check out the full service at the link below...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utJn2FyjbBY
 
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Agitational Questions with Will Fuller

Episode 8
We are back and on schedule from our new "podcast studio" in the basement of our new house. This week, we are talking with community organizer, local agitator, and Regional Director of POWER Metro, Will Fuller. Will spends his days bringing likeminded people of faith together to make positive change in Pennsylvania. We talk about school funding reform, climate justice, fair housing, and how Jesus is the animating energy behind it all. So settle in and get ready to make some good trouble. 
 
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Living Where Your Feet Are

Episode 7
Several people have asked us, "Can we join your church if we don't live in Pottstown? You seem really focused on being local". Well it was an answer so important that we made an entire episode to answer it! It's also something we've been thinking about a lot as we have spent the past month cleaning, preparing, listing, and selling our home so that we can officially move to Pottstown and live where we serve. Thank you all for your patience as we got through that wild month, but we are back on schedule and ready to publish new episodes! 
 
Join us on September 11th at 3pm at the Pottstown Carousel for Open Table UCC's official launch party! We'll have food, fun, worship, did we mention an actual carousel? Come celebrate God's faithfulness and all the hard work that our team has put together to make this happen! You can RSVP on Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/events/3361092994112741?ref=newsfeed)
 
After that, we will begin regular Sunday worship services at the Steel River Playhouse (245 E High St, Pottstown, PA 19464) at 10am. 
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Being Interfaith Allies with Rabbi Rachael Jackson

Episode 6
We are joined today by Rabbi Rachael Jackson, rabbi at Agudas Israel Congregation and co-host of the Down the Wormhole Podcast. She shares her experience being the only Jewish kid growing up next to Focus on the Family, what it’s like being the only non-Christian clergy at an event, and ways to use whatever privilege we have to make space for others. This episode was a lot of fun to record. If you want to hear more from Rachael, you can check out the Down the Wormhole podcast here. The latest episode is about the difference between healing and curing and the efficacy of prayer. 
 
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The Lifelong Work of Antiracism

Episode 5
Open Table UCC is striving to be an actively antiracist church community, but what does that mean? What does the work of antiracism look like in a Christian context? What are the roots of White Supremacy, and how do we pull those roots out of our soil so that our land may flourish? What is the role of the local church in this and how can we become good allies without making the whole thing about ourselves? It may take a lifetime of unlearning, but it's the most important work of our time. 
Listening, watching, and reading for later...
The Color Correction Podcast - https://www.colorcorrectionpodcast.com/
White Homework - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/white-homework/id1481083774
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-antiracist-with-ibram-x-kendi/id1564144316
 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - https://amzn.to/3OmmHLi
 
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