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“Eat the Document”: Thoughts on the Life of the Mind and the Journey of Faith Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitzTexts: Ezekiel 3: 1-3; Revelation 10: 8-10; Romans 2: 2 In the opening chapters of the book of Ezekiel, we find one of the stranger scenes in all of Scripture: the...
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“Hello From the Other Side” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: John 20: 1, 11-18, 19-22 As on Easters past, I’d like to begin by returning us to Maundy Thursday, and to the long night many of us spent reading Dante’s Paradiso together. It’s an impossible...
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“On Shout-outs, Multitudes, and the Things That Make for Peace” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerText: Luke 19:35-42 4/13/25 “I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:40 Rain poured down my green umbrella into my collar and trickled down my back as...
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“Ministries of Reconciliation: Reports on Cuba” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Ruth 1: 15-18; 2 Corinthians 5: 17-18 In the Afro-Cuban world, the dead are never remote. They are always near at hand. They guide, they support, they rebuke, they intervene, they...
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“The Deported God” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Luke 10: 25-37; I Corinthians 1 and 2 (Selected Passages) We are in the season of Lent, and so I’m going to begin today in the same fashion with which the Apostle Paul starts in his letter to the...
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“Reflections On Sharing Humanity” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager “Reflections on Sharing Humanity” Walking up the sidewalk towards our church this morning, we all had to dodge the tents set up on our front lawn. Last night was pretty windy and chilly and our Youth Group...
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“Toward a Theology of Mission: The Big Tent, The Long Pole, and the Ever-Widening Circles” Rev. Carleen R. Gerber Texts:...
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“A Demonstration Plot for the Kingdom of God: Solentiname” Rev. Dr. Steve Jungkeit Texts: Mark 1: 9-13; Luke 4: 14-19 Today marks the first Sunday of Lent, when we begin to follow Jesus on his pathway toward Jerusalem. For Lent this year, we’ve transformed the...
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“The World House: Some Lessons from Pentecost” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Text: Acts 2: 1-13 Were you to press me to name a favorite biblical story, I would respond without hesitation. It is the story we just heard, the giving of the Holy Spirit in...
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“Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Matthew 17: 1-9 Here’s a song made famous by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1947, a song that went on to become an anthem of the civil rights era: Up above my head, I hear music...
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“If You Are Called to Anything, It will Sound like Freedom” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerTexts: Exodus 3: 1-12 Our scripture for today is known as the call of Moses from the book of Exodus…. The 2nd book of the bible, the Exodus, is that unfolding...
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“The Joy of Losing Control: A Different Kind of Church, Part II Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: John 12: 1-3; John 13: 1-9 I’ll begin by revisiting some of the themes I laid out last week, when I spoke about the life and ministry of Jesus as the measure...
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“A Different Kind of Church” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Text: Matthew 7: 21-28; Matthew 25: 40 “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.” -Matthew 25: 40 It is, obviously, the Sunday...
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“Refusing to be Consoled” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Text: Matthew 2: 13-21 Over the last several months, we have often made reference to Miriam, the sister of Moses. In Exodus 2, she hides in the bulrushes, standing at a distance while her baby brother...
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“Jazz” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerTexts: Psalm 30: 1-4, 5b, 11-12, John 1:14, Luke 12:22-27, 29, 31 On a field trip to New York City a few days before the New Year, my cousin and I followed the directions of the tour guide to Edgecombe Avenue in the Sugar...
