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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...
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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...
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These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Matthew 23: 38; Philippians 2: 5-7; John 4: 7-9December 10, 2023 I must be going soft. Maybe it’s all the bad news happening around the world, but lately, I find...
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Notes on the End of the World Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Isaiah 64: 1-4; Mark 13: 24-26, 32-37December 3, 2023 Preamble What I offer today will take the form of a series of notes, fragments that I hope will form something of a...
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A Threefold Cord Is Not Quickly Broken Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12; Luke 4: 17-21; The Quran 5: 8November 12, 2023 Several years ago, Reza, Shelly, and I had the opportunity to travel with one another to Israel...
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“We Will Send No One Away” Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: I Corinthians 12: 14-20, 26; Mark 10: 2-4; Mark 8: 1-3 November 5, 2023 Most every single week, I stand before you at the end of each service and offer words found in the Book...
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“The Darkness Around Us Is Deep” [1] Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Luke 22: 39-46; “A Ritual to Read to Each Other,” by William Stafford October 22, 2023 I speak to those who feel, this morning, as though they are groping about in...
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The Gospel of Yes Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Luke 1:26-34; 38October 15, 2023 I know what you’re thinking. It’s not even Halloween yet and she’s pulling out the Christmas Scripture and we’re singing about the...
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On Gifts, Giving, and Generosity[1] Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Matthew 21: 12-13; Luke 8: 1-3; John 19: 38-42; Romans 16: 1-2September 24, 2023 In the middle of the 19th century, a curious phenomenon took place here in New England....
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A Church for the Nones, the Somes, and the All-Ins Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Mark 2: 23-28September 10, 2023 Well, the children have descended to their realm downstairs, the prayers have been spoken, and the Scripture read. That...
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A Meditation on Low-Flying Turkeys, the Kindness of Strangers and the Joy of Dispossession Carleen Gerber The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Isaiah 65:17-23 & 25b; Matthew 6:19-21; John 12:1-8 September 3, 2022 This weekend we celebrate what has...
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Ancestral Blessings Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Genesis 49: 22-26; Luke 2: 25-35; Matthew 28: 20bAugust 27, 2023 To begin, I’d like to describe a scene that takes place late in Dante’s Divine Comedy. It’s found midway through the...
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Jesus: Cold, Nasty, Irritating Pat SpeerThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Isaiah 56: 1, 6-8; Matthew 15: 21-28 August 20, 2023 Wow. It’s one thing to give an angry, lay Catholic a pulpit. But one ten feet in the air? I feel up moved from up here to...
