The sermon for April 25, 2021 is called “Love is a Verb,” preached by our pastor the Rev. Richard Lanford.  The title is borrowed from the Rev. Cheryl Lindsay of the United Church of Christ’s Weekly Seeds.  Preaching out of all three passages, Psalm 23, John 

-18 and First John 3:16-24, it is about the many ways God has acted and sacrificed in love for our benefit, and now we are to love one another, and others, the same way as Jesus did.  At the end it takes us to “not standing idly by” while injustices are done but taking action in love.

Branch Life

Reverend Richard Lanford is the Pastor of St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Skokie.