May 12th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Proverbs 8 Oh Mercy To begin, a series of questions: Where do you experience awe?  When have you experienced wonder?  Have there been moments in your life that have made you feel as though you’re in the presence of something holy, something sacred?  Have there...

April 21st – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: John 20: 1-10; I Corinthians 1: 18-21, 26-31 The Doorway Out of the Tomb             There’s an opening in the tomb, but he can’t get to it.  There’s an exit, but he’s unable to move toward it.  He sits inside that enclosed space, the heavy walls reflecting all...

April 14th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Matthew 21: 1-11; Matthew 25: 31-46 Dreams of a Parish House: Revisited I won’t be preaching the sermon I intended today.  It’s the final Sunday of Lent, and I had hoped to return to the theme of healing in its many different connotations this morning.  I had...

April 7th – Steve, Tom and Ned! – audio

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This morning we welcomed New Orleans musicians Tom McDermott and Ned Sublette. McDermott is an internationally recognized pianist and composer, and a fixture in the world of New Orleans music.  Ned Sublette is an American composer, musician, record producer and...

March 31st – 11 AM – Paul Verryn – audio

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This morning we welcomed The Rev. Paul Verryn to the pulpit. Paul is our theologian-in-residence for the next three weeks. Our church has been in partnership with Paul and the Methodist churches he serves in South Africa for nearly thirty years. Texts:  Isaiah  40:...

March 31st – 9 AM – Paul Verryn – audio

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This morning we welcomed The Rev. Paul Verryn to the pulpit. Paul is our theologian-in-residence for the next three weeks. Our church has been in partnership with Paul and the Methodist churches he serves in South Africa for nearly thirty years.       Texts:  Joshua...

March 24th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Text: Mark 9: 14-29 The Faces of Healing: Lord I Believe (Help My Unbelief)             Here’s a story of healing that I encountered a few years ago about the relationship between healing and belief.  Some years ago, an academic friend that I got to know through...

March 17th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Psalm 30: 1-3, 11-12; Mark 1: 29-34 The Faces of Healing             Lent traditionally begins with Jesus entering into the wilderness to confront his own temptations, after which he emerges to begin his public ministry.  Mark’s was the first of the Gospels to...

March 3rd – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Luke 1: 46-55; Matthew 11: 7-19; 1 Corinthians 1: 18-25   The Feast of Fools             Some months ago, I came across a theological treatise written in the early 20th century, an attempt to diagnose the ills then plaguing Europe in particular, along with...

February 24th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Matthew 6: 7-15; James 1: 1-4 I Go On: The Lord’s Prayer Revisited In the middle of the sermon there is a wonderful choral selection by Brian Cheney, our Senior Choir Tenor section leader.             If I were a professor of homiletics, a teacher of the art of...

February 17th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Jeremiah 12: 1-5; I Corinthians 9: 24-25; I Corinthians 13: 4-7 Running with the Horses This is a sermon about endurance.  This is a sermon about perseverance, about what it means to keep going when it feels like you can’t take another step.  This is a sermon...