by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
Wilderness Preparations: A Sermon in the Time of Corona Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Luke 4: 1-13 March 29, 2020 I’ll confess that I’ve struggled for the past few days to figure out what I might say this week. I’ve...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
Chaos and Trust: Learning to Walk in the Time of Corona Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Matthew 14: 22-33 March 22, 2020 Where now shall we turn for wisdom? Where shall we find the emotional and spiritual resources we...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
Courage in a Time of Corona Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme March 15, 2020 Be strong and let your heart take courage (Ps 31.24) **** Walking in the woods yesterday with Paul calmed me. The clouds cleared our path and I held...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: John 14: 1-3, 18-19, 25-27; Acts 4: 23-31; Galatians 2: 20a The Elements of Worship: Invoking the Spirit Click the arrow below to listen. Could take a few seconds to download. Here’s a scene that takes place in a film released last year, though it...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Amos 5: 21-24; Luke 19: 1-10 Interrupting the Elements of Worship I’d like to begin this morning by repeating words from the book of Amos. They’re some of the most famous, if also some of the most difficult words in all of the Bible. “I can’t...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: John 4: 1-15, 21-26 The Elements of Worship: What’s Worthy of Our Deepest Attention? Click the arrow below to listen. May take a few seconds to download. “You might be an ambassador to England or France. You might like to gamble, you might like to...
by Robert McCracken | Sermons
Luke 18:35-43 On a Theology of Presence: A Sight for Sore Eyes Click the arrow below to listen. May take a few seconds to download. It was a chilly and cloudy Friday, and I had a few more stops to make. My list of other people to see and places to be, felt too...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Click the arrows below to listen – could take a few seconds to download. PRIOR TO THE SERMON, THE SENIOR CHOIR DELIVERED A STIRRING RENDITION OF SANCTUS, By Charles Gounod The Elements of Worship: When In Our Music… Texts: Matthew 26: 26-30; Colossians 3: 16-17...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Psalm 16: 5-11; Psalm 46: 1-3, 10-11 The Elements of Worship: Entering the Stillness Press the arrow below to listen. It may take a few seconds to download. Over the past several weeks, I’ve been circling around the Afro-Cuban ceremonies that I...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Exodus 3: 1-6; Psalm 100 The Elements of Worship Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. -Psalm 100 Most of you know that I’ve recently returned from Cuba as a part of my sabbatical leave, where I had the opportunity to...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Isaiah 51: 1-3; Acts 17: 22-28 The Deeper the Wound, the Sweeter My Song[1] The place to start is in a grove of trees, deep in the Cuban countryside. We walked across a rutted track in a field, and as we walked, the sounds of drumming and singing...
by Robert McCracken | Sermons
This morning we welcomed The Rev. Paul Verryn, who has been our theologian-in-residence for the past two weeks. Our church has been in partnership with Paul and the Methodist churches he serves in South Africa for nearly thirty years. As always, it is wonderful to...
by Robert McCracken | Sermons
This morning we welcomed The Rev. Paul Verryn, who will be our theologian-in-residence for the next two weeks. Our church has been in partnership with Paul and the Methodist churches he serves in South Africa for nearly thirty years. As always, it is wonderful to have...
by Robert McCracken | Sermons
This morning we welcomed The Rev. Paul Verryn, who will be our theologian-in-residence for the next two weeks. Our church has been in partnership with Paul and the Methodist churches he serves in South Africa for nearly thirty years. As always, it is wonderful to have...
by Robert McCracken | Sermons
A Christmas Reading In 3 parts with a Reflection “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton” by Charles Dickens [Audio coming soon] In an old Abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago, there officiated as sexton and...
