November 19th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Psalm 150; Luke 17: 11-19 How to Render Praise? This is a Sunday that presents the preacher with a wide palette of colors to paint with, having to do with food, the offering of thanks, and of course, communion itself. But given communion, and given the holiday...November 12th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Genesis 28: 10-19; Isaiah 54:2 Messages Along a Sidewalk, Lessons Along a Street Jacob is on a journey in the story we heard from Genesis. He’s departed from his home, having said goodbye to his mother and his father. He travels alone in territory that is...November 5th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Hebrews 13: 1-6; Revelation 3: 14-22 “Behold, I Stand At the Door and Knock” If you had occasion to visit Lyme Street on Tuesday night, you would have seen hundreds of people on either side of the street decked out in all manner of costumes, ringing...October 29th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Mark 6: 54-56; Luke 8: 43-48 “Somebody Touched Me” The life was seeping out of her. Some rupture in her life, some wound within her body failed to close, and the blood just kept draining from her in a slow drip drip. At first, it terrified her, for it seemed as...October 22nd – Rev. Boesak – audio
This morning we welcomed Rev. Dr. Allan Aubrey Boesak to the pulpit. Dr. Boesak served as Desmond Tutu Chair of Peace, Global Justice, and Reconciliation Studies at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis from 2012 to 2017. He has emerged as one of the world’s...October 15th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Isaiah 52: 7-10; Matthew 26: 47-52 Notes on an American Epidemic How beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of the messenger who announces peace. So says the prophet Isaiah. Those words were later applied to Jesus. How difficult it is to hear such an...October 8th – Dr. John Selders – audio
This morning we welcomed the Rev. Dr. John Selders to the pulpit. John is the minister of Amistad United Church in Hartford, and the leader of Moral Mondays CT, along with his wife Pamela Selders. John and Pamela traveled together on our most recent Tree of Life...October 1st – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Amos 5: 21-24; Romans 12: 3-8; Romans 14: 7-9 The Feeling of Absolute Dependence On what do you depend? On whom do you depend? What is it within your life that you cannot live without, that you gives you reason to be? What is it that you depend upon for a sense...September 24th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Psalm 121; Matthew 16: 13-20 A Song of Ascent What Plato is to philosophy, what the Sistine chapel is to painting, what Shakespeare is to drama, what Tolstoy is to the novel, what the Beatles and Dylan are to rock and roll, Mozart’s Don Giovanni is...Sept 17th-Green Grass Reflections-Steve Jungkeit
Texts: “Let the Trees Be Consulted,” and “We Have Forgotten Who We Are” Stand by Me I’ll conclude our series of reflections with what, to me, seems an improbable but true occurrence. One of the traditions that’s emerged in our Green Grass visits these...Sept 17th-Green Grass Reflections-Travelers
Green Grass Reflections from the Travelers Elsa Jungkeit’s Green Grass Reflections The biggest reason I enjoy going to South Dakota is that I get to see old and new friends. It was good to see my friends Angel, Jessie, and Aspen again. We had fun beading...September 10th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Romans 12: 1-2; I Peter 2: 1-10 Everything I Do Is Gonh Be Funky (From Now On), or, Keeping Church Weird To begin, a preview of sorts. There’s a commercial that Starbucks put out a few years ago for one of its canned espresso drinks. It’s...September 3rd – Steve Jungkeit – with audio
Texts: Genesis 7: 11-20; Matthew 14: 22-33 High Water Everywhere Today I wish to talk about baptism, about remembering our baptism. We’ll get to that important ritual in a few minutes, but first, a story about songs and waters, blues and floods, baptism writ large. ...August 27th – Steve Jungkeit
Texts: Psalm 23; Luke 15: 11-24 Thou Preparest a Table Before Me No audio available – sorry. The day is May 24, 1942. The morning finds a young German literature professor, named Daniel Decourdemanche in a German prison, composing a letter to his...Upcoming Events
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