Summer Worship
8:00am - Garden Worship Service
10:00am - Traditional Worship Service
Summer Soloists and Guest Pianists/Organists
July 21 - Stephanie Polonio
July 28 - Antonio Abate, Christopher Duvage
August 4 - Antonio Abate, Christopher Duvage
August 11 - Aram Tchobanian
First Fruits: 2019 Stewardship Campaign
Pledge
We are a warm and welcoming family of faith, bound together in compassion and love.
The Congregational Church of New Canaan invites you to join us!
For over 280 years, we have gathered as a family of God’s children in order to experience His presence, learn Christ’s ways, and serve our neighbors – all to make faith a way of life.
Daily Devotion
Read: Luke 6:27–36
But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,...pray for those who abuse you. Luke 6:27–28
This must be the most difficult of all Jesus’ teachings. Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek. Be merciful to the wicked. Why? The text says that we will be rewarded. But what is the reward for letting people walk all over you? What could be worth that indignity and injustice? We have serious questions and grave misgivings about this line of teaching! And yet, what if the reward is a world where people give better than they get? What if the reward is a peace born out of unbridled generosity? What if the reward is being called children of God, who respond to the trials and triumphs of life as the Lord would? What if the reward for godly living was to become divine ourselves? Would that be compensation enough?
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