Provo Community Church

Art Fry sang in his church choir. Fry was frustrated by the fact that, when he stood and opened his hymnal to sing, the paper bookmarks that he used in his hymnal to mark the songs on the program would slip out of sight or even onto the floor. In a moment of insight that has become legendary in the realm of contemporary invention, Fry, musing during a rather boring sermon, came up with the idea that led to the invention of the Post-it note – what an Epiphany!

Listen to a sermon by the Rev. Daniel Haas commemorating Epiphany based on Micah 5:2-5a and Matthew 2:1-12. It was delivered at Provo Community United Church of Christ on January 8 2012.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was executed by hanging at dawn on April 9, 1945, just two weeks before soldiers from the United States 90th and 97th Infantry Divisions liberated the concentration camp, three weeks before the Soviet capture of Berlin and a month before the capitulation of Nazi Germany.

“By gracious powers” is a prayer Bonhoeffer wrote for New Year’s Eve 1944.
It was also the theme for this New Year’s sermon by the Rev. Daniel Haas:

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