June 22, 2025

“Windswept”

“Windswept.” A sermon based on 1 Kings 19 :1-15a, Galatians 3:23-29 and Matthew 14:22-32 delivered on June 22, 2025 at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan by the Rev. Alison Andrea Young.

The High Plains are the beginning of the desert West, and although they are most often thought about as beginning in the Dakotas, they actually begin in Northwestern Minnesota. A colleague of mine, when I served churches in Minnesota and South Dakota, commented to me one day that she had to leave the churches that she served in that area (near Fargo/Moorhead on the Minnesota side) because “the wind wore her out.”
I didn’t understand what she was talking about until I traveled to that area, . . .

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