October 14th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Text: Proverbs 8: 1-4, 32-36 “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”             “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost wrote in 1914, a line that has planted itself in my imagination like a sentinel.  I thought about it when I spent two...

Full Service – Sept 30th – for Carleen

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THIS SUNDAY WAS A SPECIAL SERVICE OF CELEBRATION AND RECOGNITION FOR REV. CARLEEN GERBER’S 42 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CHURCH. THE SERVICE INCLUDED SIX SPOKEN REFLECTIONS, AND SELECTIONS BY THE CHOIR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE FCCOL...

September 16th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Genesis 12: 1; Matthew 6: 11; Matthew 4: 1-4 Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (Different Ways to Pray, Part 4)           Over the last several weeks, we’ve been exploring what it means to pray, moving in a non-linear fashion through different practices of...

September 9th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Matthew 6: 5-13 “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven…” (Different Ways to Pray, Part III)             We say it every week.  I’ve known the words by heart since I was six, maybe seven.  They trip off my tongue in sequence, so that I rarely have to think about what...

September 2nd – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Ephesians 3: 14-21 Different Ways to Pray, Part II: Strengthening Your Core             Several weeks ago now, I shared with you an experience I had this summer, traveling into a mountain hollow in Kentucky to hear a distinctive form of singing found in the Old...

August 26th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Romans 5: 20; Romans 8: 28, 31-39 Estrangement and Grace A week ago, I began by referring to the peculiar qualities of this thing called preaching, which is where I wish to begin today as well.  It’s peculiar because I thought I might say one thing to you this...

August 19th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

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Texts: Luke 11: 1-4; Colossians 3: 16; Romans 8: 26 “Different Ways to Pray”             One of the strange things about the task of preaching (and there are many strange things about it) is how to begin again after falling out of a regular rhythm. It feels a little...

August 12th – David Good – with audio

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 This morning we welcomed back The Rev. David W. Good to our pulpit. David serves as our Minister Emeritus and was our beloved Senior Minister from 1975 to 2012. Genesis 22: 1-14                                     Revelation 21: 1-5 A FEW THEOPHANIES: INSPIRED BY...

August 5th – Scott Harris – with audio

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This morning we welcomed and thank The Rev. Scott Harris to our pulpit. Scott is a retired Lutheran pastor and last served as Senior Pastor at St. John’s Lutheran, Stamford. Besides serving in parishes in Wisconsin and Long Island, Scott and his wife, Karen, lived in...

July 29th – Carleen Gerber – with audio

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Leviticus 19:33 Acts 28:1-6 I Corinthians 14:11 Hebrews 13:2 Shipwrecked on the Island of Malta; A Meditation on Donkeys, Solar Farms and Human Kindness            The Aegean Sea is a magnificent body of water.  In warmer weather the sun light shimmers off of an azure...