All are welcome to join with us. Our Sunday Morning Worship Service at 10:30 am.

We are located at 27 Cliff Street in Nahant. Park anywhere on the street near the church.

Telephone: (781) 581-1202 or (339) 221-0676

Email: Rev. Larry

We are searching for an Organist/Choir Director.
Click here for Job Description and information about our Hook & Hastings Organ

Click here for a copy of our newsletter - The Pulpit Rock

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Janaury 29 ~ 4th Sunday after Epiphany

"With Authority"

Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 111;
I Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28

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Reflection

Another New Year

Soon the last seconds of 2011 will be counted down, and millions will cheer for the arrival of 2012. Many will also review the past year, resolve to “actualize potentialities,” try to discern what’s essential in our finite lives, and then determine again to achieve the ideals that lie within.

How can those possibilities become realities? A new year, a new calendar begins again, with hopes we can name, but it takes more than sheer will: faith, family, and friends are part of the equation, and we can start with meditation and prayer.

We can ask God’s forgiveness for past times when we’ve “missed the mark” – and we can pray for the strength and courage to try once again to live into a way of shalom – a way of wholeness, peace and grace.

At Christmas we sang: O holy Child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray; Cast out our sin and enter in; be born in us today. ... O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel!

Those verses date to 1868 in O Little Town of Bethlehem (penned by Phillips Brooks, a past rector of Trinity Episcopal in Boston and sometime summer preacher here), and though the world has changed remarkably in the last 143 years, our need to feel God’s close presence is a constant.

In the words of our UCC Statement of Faith, we affirm that for all who trust in God, there is forgiveness of sins and fullness of grace, courage in the struggle for justice and peace, God’s presence in trial and rejoicing, and eternal life in God’s realm which has no end.

In 2012 and the years beyond, may we each discern God’s presence abiding with us, and with God’s grace and the guidance, and inspiration of the Spirit, may we find new resolve in this new year to be the instruments of God’s peace.

Blessings, Rev. Larry

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