Immanuel United Church of Christ St. Bernard

Immanuel United Church of Christ St. Bernard With open hearts, open minds, and open doors, we extend a sincere and extravagant welcome to everyone to be a part of our church family.

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here. Worship Service: 10:15 Sunday mornings
Communion: First Sunday of each month

Commitment is not the absence of hardship. Commitment is choosing each other through hardship.
06/13/2026

Commitment is not the absence of hardship. Commitment is choosing each other through hardship.

A look back at some of the wonderful moments at the association gathering at David's UCC in Kettering! We were delighted...
06/12/2026

A look back at some of the wonderful moments at the association gathering at David's UCC in Kettering! We were delighted to be joined by General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson!

06/11/2026

If You Stay At Church Long Enough, This Will Happen

What If You Stopped Treating People Like They're Disposable?We live in a world obsessed with disposability. We want thin...
06/10/2026

What If You Stopped Treating People Like They're Disposable?

We live in a world obsessed with disposability. We want things our way, the way we want them, right now.

Single-use everything. Disposable products, disposable commitments, disposable relationships, disposable communities. The second something gets inconvenient, we just throw it away.

And honestly, it's become easy to do that with church, too. There's always another one on the corner, a million different flavors to choose from.

So it's easy to leave a community the moment something feels difficult, or the moment you don't like a song. Or it's easier just to stay home altogether.

But Ruth challenges us with a radically different vision. Choose to stay.

Choose community. Choose each other. Choose commitment.

Because on the other side of Ruth's story is something beautiful. We won't spoil it if you've never read it. We'll walk through it together.

But here's what we'll say: at the end of this journey is redemption, love, and chosen family. And at the end of it is a reminder that God is still at work.

Need prayer or want to speak to a pastor? Send us a DM.
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06/09/2026

God Sometimes Just Holds You Instead Of Fixing It

06/07/2026

Worship for 6/7

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Healing takes time, truth takes courage, and being heard, truly heard can take longer than we wish it did.
06/05/2026

Healing takes time, truth takes courage, and being heard, truly heard can take longer than we wish it did.

06/04/2026

Godly Maturity Embraces Complexity

You Don't Have To Flatten Yourself To Be HolyThere's a quiet pressure in church culture that says if we just smooth ours...
06/03/2026

You Don't Have To Flatten Yourself To Be Holy

There's a quiet pressure in church culture that says if we just smooth ourselves out enough, polish ourselves enough, maybe then we'll finally look the way God wants us to.

But open Scripture and the people God calls rarely fit into tidy categories. Moses stutters and argues. David fails badly. Peter is passionate and impulsive. Paul is brilliant and difficult in the same breath.

Even Jesus refuses to fit one mold. Philippians 2 says, "Though He was in the form of God, He did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant."

The Greek word there is kenosis, a self-emptying. God chose not domination but solidarity, not distance but closeness, not power over humanity but presence with humanity. And then Christ became "obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."

But Paul doesn't stop at the cross. He keeps going: "Therefore God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name." Jesus is both humbled and exalted. Not one or the other. Both.

And so many of us have been taught to flatten ourselves into one acceptable thing. Be humble, but not too confident. Be joyful, but not too loud. Be wounded, but healed quickly enough that no one feels uncomfortable around us.

Meanwhile Jesus is washing feet one moment and flipping tables the next, tender with children and fierce with oppressive systems, fully divine and wholly human. Maybe holiness was never about eliminating our complexity in the first place.

Christ didn't avoid our complexity. He stepped directly into it. So we can stop punishing ourselves for being multifaceted. Christ meets the real us, not the cleaned up version, not the spiritually optimized version. The real us. And that is good news.

Need prayer or want to speak to a pastor? Send us a DM.

06/02/2026

True Humility Is Never Performative

Address

210 Jefferson Avenue
Saint Bernard, OH
45217

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 1pm
Sunday 10:15am - 1pm

Telephone

+15136411418

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