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“What Must We Do” Rev. Cathy ZallText: Luke 10:25-37 Our passage today opens with a question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”. I rephase this a bit: If I want to thrive…if I want to live a life most deeply aligned with the person God created me to...
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“Our God, Our People, and Our Place” Rev. Dr. Laurie McKnight Text: Genesis 15:1-6, Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 “Our People, Our Places, Our God” My Aunt Alyce and Uncle David would often worship here in Old Lyme when they were at their summer home in...
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“Poems of Praise: On Trees, Treasures and Other Timely Gifts” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager Text: Psalm 8: 1, 3-7, Psalm 96: 11-12, Psalm 104: 1-6, and Matthew 6:21 “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against...
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“But If Not” Rev. A. Reilly Page Text: Daniel 3:8-18 There are four origin stories in our country. Your ancestors were either Indigenous, Enslaved, Immigrants, or Refugees. You may check all that apply. In each of these origin stories, we have individual...
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“We The People: All in the Same Boat” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager Text: Isaiah 40: 30-31, Psalm 121, Luke 5: 1-6 I remember the moment we walked into St. Peter’s Square in Rome. I was on sabbatical and Paul and I were looking for the line for the Sistine Chapel. We...
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“On a Queer Day, We Can See Forever” Rev. Dr. Gary Comstock Text: Song of Songs 1:5; 3:1; 5:2-9; 6:3; 7:10, Luke 13:31-34, Isaiah 11: 6-9 A cause for celebration and our gratitude today go to the people of Budapest, who were told by their government not to march in...
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“Strength For The Journey” Rev. Cathy Zall Texts: John 13:34; 14:18-20, 27 It is always such a pleasure to return to this wonderful community. Over 30 years ago I came through those doors seeking a deeper engagement with the life of the spirit. In...
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“The Shared World” Rev. Dr. Steven R. JungkeitTexts: Mark 6: 30-44 The place to start is with a story, written as a prose poem, from a Palestinian poet named Naomi Shihab Nye. It’s a poem I’ve shared with you before, but it’s high time to revisit it, in...
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“What If Beauty Is What’s Left?” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerTexts: Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-15, 16-18a; Isaiah 49: 13 “What if beauty is what’s left when all the illusions are stripped away?” -Mark Nepo In my mind, the Book of Exodus could...
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“Come In From the Cold” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: John 1: 43-51; John 20: 24-29 Come In From the Cold I know we never will be perfect Never entirely clear We get hurt and we just panic And we strike out, out of fear I fear the sentence of this...
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“Our Lives Flow On in Endless Song” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: Psalm 100; Acts 16: 25-34; Ephesians 5: 18b-19 These past several weeks have been devoted to exploring who we are as Congregationalists, and how FCCOL came to be what it is. We’ve explored...
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“On Being Congregational in a Post-Denominational World” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: Isaiah 45: 5-8; Matthew 5: 13-16 “On Being Congregational in a Post-Denominational World” Not long ago, I received an email from someone new to the area who was...
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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...
