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Turning Our Faces Toward Jerusalem Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 9: 51-62; Matthew 26: 36-39 There are two sacred legacies toward which the architecture of this Meetinghouse gestures: that of Athens and that of Jerusalem. ...
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Smooth Stones, Gathered from the Road: A Report on the Pilgrimage for Peace Steve Jungkeit and Susan Switzer The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: I Samuel 17 (Selections); Luke 24: 32 A book that I return to frequently, and that I have often...
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Have Mercy upon Me Peter S. Hawkins Read by Steve Jungkeit and Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerII Samuel 11 and 12, Psalm 51 February 25, 2024 The story begins on Good Friday morning with a man who is utterly lost. The night before was a waking nightmare, or was he actually...
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Souls Growing Deeper Still: The Legacy of the Black Social Gospel in the 21st Century Steve Jungkeit Texts: Matthew 22: 34-40; Revelation 7: 9, 13-17 “I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and...
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Up and Down the Mountain: On Praying with Our Feet Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager Texts: Isaiah 40: 28-31; Mark 9: 2-11 Mildred Norman changed her name to “Peace Pilgrim”. The year was 1953, and as an ordinary person looked at the world around her and felt driven...
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The Thick Darkness…Where God Was Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Exodus 20: 18-21; John 1: 1-9 A very strange thing happens in the transition between the Old Testament and the New. We just witnessed it in our two...
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Finding Our Way Home Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Genesis 49: 29-33, 50:4-8, 12-14 There is a great deal that I wish to share with you about Africa, stories and insights that can’t be covered in the space of a single...
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African Eyes: What We Saw and How We’re Seeing Differently Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: John 9: 1-9 January 21, 2024 A little more than a week ago, a small group from FCCOL stood in a circle on a beach in Western...
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Holy Troublemakers and Tingling Ears Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager First Congregational Church of Old Lyme 1 Samuel 3:1-11 January 14th, 2024 “We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.” -Bayard Rustin Then God said to Samuel, “See, I am...
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Another Way Home: A Season of Epiphanies Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Matthew 2: 1-12January 7th, 2024 Among the holiday movies we watched at our house over Christmas break was ET, that beloved 1982 American science...
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These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Matthew 23: 38; Philippians 2: 5-7; John 4: 7-9December 10, 2023 I must be going soft. Maybe it’s all the bad news happening around the world, but lately, I find...
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Notes on the End of the World Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Isaiah 64: 1-4; Mark 13: 24-26, 32-37December 3, 2023 Preamble What I offer today will take the form of a series of notes, fragments that I hope will form something of a...
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A Threefold Cord Is Not Quickly Broken Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12; Luke 4: 17-21; The Quran 5: 8November 12, 2023 Several years ago, Reza, Shelly, and I had the opportunity to travel with one another to Israel...
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“We Will Send No One Away” Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: I Corinthians 12: 14-20, 26; Mark 10: 2-4; Mark 8: 1-3 November 5, 2023 Most every single week, I stand before you at the end of each service and offer words found in the Book...
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“The Darkness Around Us Is Deep” [1] Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 22: 39-46; “A Ritual to Read to Each Other,” by William Stafford October 22, 2023 I speak to those who feel, this morning, as though they are groping about in...