Category: Sermons

“On the Way to Galilee”  Rev. Dr. Steven JungkeitText: Matthew 28: 1-10Easter Sunday Worship Service         A few years ago, after we were through with our Easter services and after I had gone home, our family gathered around the table for Easter dinner. I felt good about [...]

“Discerning Voices: Miriam’s Question”  Rev. Dr Steven JungkeitTexts: Numbers 12: 1-16; Numbers 20: 1; Hebrews 13: 13 Discerning Voices: Miriam’s Question Let us then go to him outside the camp… Hebrews 13:13        Many of us have been immersed in a year long read-through of the Bible, and [...]

“Discerning Voices: Miriam by the Seashore”  Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Exodus 15: 1-3; Exodus 15: 20-21      I’ve been hearing an insistent and important question over the past several months, as many of us have been making our way through the Bible. The question is this: where are [...]

“The Depth Dimension of Existence”  Rev. Dr. Steven JungkeitTexts: Matthew 7: 24-27; Romans 8: 31-39; Hebrews 6: 19-20 “The Depth Dimension of Existence”              A year and a half ago I shared with you what happened when Rachael and I were due to drop our daughter Sabina off for her [...]

“What In Us Is Dark, Illumine”  Rev. Dr. Steven JungkeitTexts: Isaiah 14: 12-15; Matthew 4: 1-4; “On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost,” by Andrew Marvell   What in me is dark, illumine… -John Milton, Paradise Lost  Having entered the season of Lent, it is necessary to spend at least a little [...]

“Bearing Witness: How to Speak Love in a Storm”  Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerTexts: Exodus 23: 9, Mark 4: 34-41 Walking into a detention center is a surreal experience. You hand in your driver’s license, sign paperwork, lock your belongings in a locker and pass through a metal detector with your shoes [...]

“A Sublime Madness”  Rev. Dr. Steven JungkeitTexts: Isaiah 58: 1, 6-9; Jeremiah 20: 9 “A Sublime Madness”     One of the sharpest minds the United States has ever produced happened to be a minister, a theologian, and a social theorist in the denomination to which we belong – the United [...]

“The World is Lit By Lightening”  Rev. Dr. Steven JungkeitTexts: Exodus 19: 1-2, 16-19; Matthew 24: 23-27; John 1: 1-5   “Blow out your candles, Laura.Nowadays the world is lit by lightning.” -Tennessee WilliamsThe Glass Menagerie               Years ago our family spent a summer in Vermont, in a town [...]

“Where Shall Wisdom Be Found: A Story of Pilgrimage and Discovery”  Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Proverbs 2: 1-10; Matthew 2: 12     Where Shall Wisdom Be Found: A Story of Pilgrimage and Discovery             Nearly six years ago, the white suburbs had to learn how to say Black Lives Matter [...]

“Scripts for the Pageant”  Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Psalm 119: 97-105; Matthew 2: 1-12; John 1: 14             Where shall wisdom be found?  That question from the Book of Job is one that reverberates on Epiphany Sunday, during which we retell the story of the Magi in search of [...]