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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part IV Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Matthew 23: 1-12, 27-28; Mark 4: 22-23 February 14, 2021 By way of introduction to this week’s stories from the Deep North, I’d like to recall a...
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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part III Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Psalm 137 February 7, 2021 Picture first a boy, not yet out of high school, standing on the edge of the Atlantic. He is in West Africa, at the...
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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part II Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Job 21: 7-13; Joel 2: 12-13a; Matthew 20: 16 January 31, 2021 We’re in the second week of a sermon series called Wheels of Justice: Stories...
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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part I Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme January 24, 2021 Some twenty years ago, Paul Thomas Anderson released the film Magnolia, which followed a series of characters across several days. Two...
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Withstanding the Furnace of Truth Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Daniel 3 January 17, 2021 A trial by fire and a trial by water – these two stand before us, confronting, challenging, instructing, and inspiring. First, the trial by...
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The Jesus We Left Behind Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Luke 2: 41-52 January 10, 2021 In 1964, Shusaku Endo, a Japanese novelist I revere, published a book entitled The Girl I Left Behind. It’s the story of a young man whose...
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On Brave and Startling Truths: Home by Another Way Sermon: On Brave and Startling Truths: Home by Another Way January 3rd, 2021 Matthew 2:1-12 “They left for their own country by another road.” Matthew 2:12 * * * * * The pandemic has brought out my inner...
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When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Psalm 126; Joel 2: 28; Matthew 1: 18-25 December 20, 2020 One of the curious features of the Christmas narratives in the Bible is how often important...
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For Unto You Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 2: 1-20 December 13, 2020 Last week found us in a prison cell with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, where, in 1943, he wrote about the quiet Christmas he was preparing to celebrate that year. ...
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17 December 1943 Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Philippians 2: 1-11 December 6, 2020 “No doubt it will be a very quiet Christmas everywhere, and the children will remember it for a long time to come.”[1] So said Dietrich...
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Advent Meditation: Learning the New Song Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Luke 1:5, 8-25a, 78-79 November 29, 2020 “The Commonplace is shot through now with new glory…despite all the crassness, life is saved by the singing...
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Silken Threads of Thanks Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 17: 11-19; Psalm 100 November 22, 2020 O Sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in…you hang by a slender thread… -Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry...
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What are You Looking For? Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Matthew 4: 18-22; John 1: 35-38 November 15, 2020 Some individuals and families have acquired pandemic dogs. We’ve emphatically resisted. Not because the kids...
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A Sprig of Hope Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Genesis 7-8, Selected Verses; John 14: 1-2 November 8, 2020 The waiting is the hardest partEvery day you see one more cardYou take it on faith, you take it to the heartThe waiting is...
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The Gospel of Kinship: All Things are Inventions of Holiness Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Isaiah 33:2; Mark 3:31-35; John 15:12 November 1, 2020 “All things are inventions of holiness — some more rascally than...
