by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
This Is My Story, This is My Song: Why Hymns Matter Steve Jungkeit Texts: Psalm 59: 16-17; Acts 16: 19-30; Colossians 3: 16-17 “This is my story, this is my song.” That’s the refrain of a famous hymn, “Blessed Assurance,” written by Fanny Crosby in the...
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The Church of Timshel: Celebrating the Ministry of Rev. David W. Good Steve Jungkeit (and David Good)Texts: Ruth 1: 1-16; Daniel 3: 19-27 A week ago I stood in this pulpit with a reminder of the good news of Easter: What Dies Doesn’t Stay Dead was the...
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“What Died Didn’t Stay Dead” Steve JungkeitTexts: John 20: 1, 11-18; John 21: 15-19Easter Sunday By way of preamble, I’ll open with words that were spoken sometime after midnight on Maundy Thursday, heard by the thirty or so who remained to the end of...
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“Palm Sunday Sermon: A Parade of Gospel Stories” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick NagerMark 11:1-11 Yesterday, I drove to the New London Hospitality Center in pelting rain to pick up our guest speaker, Catherine. Church member, Dana Dixon, connected us. We’d spoken...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
“Like a Bandit Getting Over His Lawless Ways:” Or, Why Dante’s Purgatorio Matters Great literature is a hand extended from the past. When we grasp that hand, it can be a guide and a source of solace, as we confront the challenges of the present. That is, in large...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
Turning Our Faces Toward Jerusalem Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 9: 51-62; Matthew 26: 36-39 There are two sacred legacies toward which the architecture of this Meetinghouse gestures: that of Athens and that of Jerusalem. ...
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Smooth Stones, Gathered from the Road: A Report on the Pilgrimage for Peace Steve Jungkeit and Susan Switzer The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: I Samuel 17 (Selections); Luke 24: 32 A book that I return to frequently, and that I have often...
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Have Mercy upon Me Peter S. Hawkins Read by Steve Jungkeit and Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerII Samuel 11 and 12, Psalm 51 February 25, 2024 The story begins on Good Friday morning with a man who is utterly lost. The night before was a waking nightmare, or was he actually...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
Souls Growing Deeper Still: The Legacy of the Black Social Gospel in the 21st Century Steve Jungkeit Texts: Matthew 22: 34-40; Revelation 7: 9, 13-17 “I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and...
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Up and Down the Mountain: On Praying with Our Feet Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager Texts: Isaiah 40: 28-31; Mark 9: 2-11 Mildred Norman changed her name to “Peace Pilgrim”. The year was 1953, and as an ordinary person looked at the world around her and felt driven...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
The Thick Darkness…Where God Was Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Exodus 20: 18-21; John 1: 1-9 A very strange thing happens in the transition between the Old Testament and the New. We just witnessed it in our two...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
Finding Our Way Home Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Genesis 49: 29-33, 50:4-8, 12-14 There is a great deal that I wish to share with you about Africa, stories and insights that can’t be covered in the space of a single...
by FCCofOldLyme | Sermons
African Eyes: What We Saw and How We’re Seeing Differently Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: John 9: 1-9 January 21, 2024 A little more than a week ago, a small group from FCCOL stood in a circle on a beach in Western...
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Holy Troublemakers and Tingling Ears Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager First Congregational Church of Old Lyme 1 Samuel 3:1-11 January 14th, 2024 “We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.” -Bayard Rustin Then God said to Samuel, “See, I am...
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Another Way Home: A Season of Epiphanies Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Matthew 2: 1-12January 7th, 2024 Among the holiday movies we watched at our house over Christmas break was ET, that beloved 1982 American science...
