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“It is I you have been looking for”: Meditations on the Pandemic, the Book of Ruth and the Practice of Kindness beyond Borders The Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Ruth 1:1-22 March 14th, 2021 I begin this morning with...
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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part VII Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: 2 Samuel 6: 1-5, 14-19; Matthew 13: 1-9 March 7, 2021 Our Wheels journey is rolling into its final stops today. We’ll be visiting two places...
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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part VI Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Acts 9: 1-19 February 28, 2021 We’re coming in for a landing on our Wheels of Justice series – a mixed metaphor, I know. We can actually see the...
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Wheels of Justice: Stories from the Deep North, Part V Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: John 3: 1-10 February 21, 2021 One of the most famous, if least understood, stories in all of the New Testament, takes place under cover of night. ...
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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...
