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Rev. Dr. Jacob Buchholz

Browse published sermons from Rev. Dr. Jacob Buchholz in Claremont United Church of Christ.

Jan 25, 2026 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Bon Appetit: Meals Worth Remembering, Radical Hospitality

This week has felt darker than ever as ICE continues to terrorise our communities and another person has been murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. But, church, our faith has built us for this moment! It has built us to still believe that the world can change.

Jan 4, 2026 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Bon Appetit: Meals Worth Remembering - The Epiphany in Emmaus

The dining table is much more than a place to consume food; it is a place for connecting, laughing, telling stories, and comforting one another. Shared meals bond us, heal us, and lift us up. In the first installment of our new sermon series, Bon Appetit:

Dec 21, 2025 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Awkward Family Photo: The Family That Doesn't Know Where They're Going

In this next installment of our Awkward Family Photo sermon series we take a look at The Ones Who Get Lost Along the Way. The Magi show up to the scene of the nativity quite late after Jesus’ birth. Were they lost along the way? In today’s sermon, Pas

Dec 7, 2025 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Awkward Family Photo: The Family With All the Drama

The Nativity story contains a wild amalgamation of characters from the shepherds, to the magi, to the Holy Family, a collection of people just as unusual as our own extended families. This Advent, we will take a closer glimpse of the Awkward Family Photo

Nov 23, 2025 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Namesakes: The Josephs

In the final installment of our Namesakes sermon series, Pastor Jacob explores the various Jospehs throughout the Bible. Each of these Josephs dared to dream of a brighter future even when the present seemed bleak. How might we also dare to dream of a bri

Nov 12, 2025 5:03 PM America/Los_Angeles

Namesakes: The Johns

This week in our Namesakes sermon series we explore all of the Johns of the Bible--and scholars are not even sure exactly how many different Johns there are! But what is obvious is that each of these Johns jumps into their faith wholeheartedly and Pastor

Oct 26, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Wicked: A Sermon Series - Final Installment

In our final installment of our Wicked sermon series, two powerful passages from Isaiah and Hebrews help us trust that with God and our faith community, we too can defy gravity when the hardships of this world and the hardships of our lives try to keep us

Oct 5, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

K-Pop Demon Hunters

K-Pop Demon Hunters has become a global phenomenon as the most watched Netflix movie of all time with a soundtrack that became the fastest to 3 billion streams on spotify. In today's sermon, Pastor Jacob explores how the themes from the movie declare the

Sep 28, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Holy Friendships: David and Jonathan

In our last installment of our "Holy Friendships" sermon series, Pastor Jacob explores the deep connection between David and Jonathan, a relationship so intimate that some scholars have suggested it goes beyond platonic friendship. Regardless of the natur

Sep 14, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Holy Friendships: Paul and Barnabas

In Acts 9, Barnabas vouches for a recently converted Paul, seeing the potential in him to become a better person. But by Acts 15, the friendship breaks down when Barnabas feels like Paul isn't acting in accordance with the Gospel he is preaching. Pastor J

Aug 24, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

T is For…Tetragrammaton

As our "A is for..." summer sermon series winds down, Pastor Jacob explores what is known as the Tetragrammaton, or the four letters that make up the Divine name that God uses when talking to Moses in Exodus. What does it mean when God says, "I Am Who I A

Aug 10, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

R is for...Rebekah

We often refer to God as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the 3 main patriarchs from the Book of Genesis, but in each of their stories, their spouses take center stage as well. So, perhaps it could be the God of Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel. In this in

Jul 27, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

N is for...Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed in some form represents the beliefs of 98.5% of global Christians, including all 3 major branches of Protestants, Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox. But the creed has not been without controversy throughout history, including causing the Gr

Jul 13, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

J is for...Jephthah's Daughter

In J is for Jepthah's Daughter, we take on another text of terror that shows the worst parts of humanity. Pastor Jacob guides us through the terrible decisions by Jephthah to make and keep a vow that takes his own daughter's life and reminds us that our f

Jun 15, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

"D is For...Dinah"

Genesis 34 is known as a text of terror for its violent themes and storyline. This chapter is the only story we have about Dinah, one of Jacob's daughters, but she doesn't even get a voice in this passage. Pastor Jacob explores her story and tragedy of th

Jun 8, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

B is For…Boanerges “The Sons of Thunder”

B is for....Boanerges. You voted and chose to learn more about the Sons of Thunder. James and John were unusual picks to be Jesus' disciples, but was there something about their fiery, passionate, personalities that attracted Jesus, or was all of their bl

May 18, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

This Is Who We Are: "Truth Tellers"

We conclude our Stewardship Season by asking what it means to be "Truth-Tellers." How do we know that we proclaim as Christians is the truth?

May 4, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

This Is Who We Are: "Cross Bearers"

Like Simon of Cyrene carrying the cross of Jesus, we are called to be cross bearers. As a church community we carry each other's burdens when they are too heavy to carry alone, and we carry the burdens and problems of society when we can't fix them by our

Apr 20, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Bless This Mess: "Faith + Doubt"

We conclude our "Bless this Mess" sermon series on Easter morning! Part of the messiness of the spiritual journey is that we don't always know for sure what we believe. However, part of having faith is understanding that faith and doubt can coexist within

Apr 6, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Bless This Mess: "Is There Anything To Be Grateful For?"

Is there much to be grateful for in a world where so much is going wrong? Is it privileged of us to take time out of our days to be grateful when so many people are suffering? Join Pastor Jacob in our Bless this Mess sermons series as he explores the impo

Mar 9, 2025 3:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Bless This Mess: "Can These Bones Live?"

In Ezekiel Chapter 37, God brings Ezekiel to a valley full of dry, dead bones and asks him, "Can these bones live?" As we survey the chaos and country of our world, God asks us the same question, "Can these bones live?"

Mar 2, 2025 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Mind The Gap: "The Missing Years"

One of the biggest gaps in Scripture is what happened in Jesus' life from the time he was born until he was 30 and baptized by John. In the final installment of our "Mind the Gap" sermon series, Pastor Jacob explores how people living very ordinary lives

Feb 20, 2025 5:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Mind the Gap: "Pen Pals"

Did you know that there were more letters written by apostles like Paul and John than are contained in our New Testaments? Many of these letters have been lost to history! Pastor Jacob explores the gaps in the correspondence between the apostles and the c

Feb 2, 2025 2:00 AM America/Los_Angeles

Mind The Gap(s)!

We launch a new series this week looking at stories where there are holes in the plot or content of the passage. So many times when we read a Biblical story, we are not privy to the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters. In today's Scripture readi