August 20th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: John 5: 1-9; I Corinthians 13: 1-13 “Take Up Your Mat and Walk” “Take up your mat and walk.” Those are the words that Jesus says to a paralyzed man that he encounters in the Gospel of John. Recall the scene. There’s a pool of water, with healing properties....

August 13th – David Good – with audio

Isaiah 11: 1-3, 6-9  Romans 12: 9-13 Matthew 19: 13-15 REFLECTIONS ON A STILL LIFE (ON FINDING THE L KEY, A LUNCH BUCKET, THE MYTH OF SYSYPHUS, A TEQUILA COMMUNION, PADDINGTON BEAR AND RUSTIC STEPS)             Today’s sermon probably could fall under the “Self-Help”...

August 6th – Carleen Gerber – with audio

Proverbs 29:18 Ezekiel 47:7-12 Psalm 23 Revelation 21:1-5 and 22:1&2 “In Difficult Times You Should Always Carry Something Beautiful in Your Mind” (Pascal)        On a recent sweltering summer day, as I hurried out of the Big Y parking, my eye spotted the...

July 30th – Joan Priest – with audio

8Mark 4:2-20  “Listen Up!”      “Listen! a sower went out to sow,” and right here Jesus begins to recite his very first parable.  Jesus used these brilliant picture stories, these extended metaphors, simple images, to explain something unexplainable, the Kingdom of...

July 23rd – Cathy Zall – with audio

Luke 10:25-37 Go and Do Likewise It is a pleasure to be here with you all this morning.  As some of you know, I began my ministry here and served as an associate pastor of the church for about five years.  This community has also been a part of my ongoing journey with...

July 16th – Becky Crosby – with audio

Psalm 139: 1-12 Matthew 18:1-6, 10-14, 25:34-45 One of The Little Ones Click below to listen In my usual fashion, I will begin this morning with a story from Haiti.  For those of you visiting today, my husband, Ted, and I founded a scholarship granting organization in...

July 9th – Scott Harris – with audio

2 KINGS 4:42-44 EPHESIANS 3:14-21 JOHN 6:1-15 A HUNGER FOR MORE THAN FOOD             “Nothing is so incredible as an answer to an unasked question.”  Reinhold Niebuhr said that.  As Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary, Niebuhr was internationally...

July 2nd – Scott Harris – with audio

ROMANS 6:1B-11 MATTHEW 10:24-39  The Opposite of Love             Garry Trudeau, creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, tells the story about a man who considered himself a moth.  The man walked into a doctor’s office and said he needed help.  The doctor...

October 8, 2006 Sermon

Toward a Theology of Mission: The Jesus Who Knows No Boundaries Carleen R. Gerber The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Isaiah 54:1-3; Romans 12:9-21 October 8, 2006 Last week I opened up my e-mail to find a rather startling communication from a friend in...