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“The Shared World” Rev. Dr. Steven R. JungkeitTexts: Mark 6: 30-44 The place to start is with a story, written as a prose poem, from a Palestinian poet named Naomi Shihab Nye. It’s a poem I’ve shared with you before, but it’s high time to revisit it, in...
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“What If Beauty Is What’s Left?” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerTexts: Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-15, 16-18a; Isaiah 49: 13 “What if beauty is what’s left when all the illusions are stripped away?” -Mark Nepo In my mind, the Book of Exodus could...
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“Come In From the Cold” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: John 1: 43-51; John 20: 24-29 Come In From the Cold I know we never will be perfect Never entirely clear We get hurt and we just panic And we strike out, out of fear I fear the sentence of this...
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“Our Lives Flow On in Endless Song” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: Psalm 100; Acts 16: 25-34; Ephesians 5: 18b-19 These past several weeks have been devoted to exploring who we are as Congregationalists, and how FCCOL came to be what it is. We’ve explored...
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“On Being Congregational in a Post-Denominational World” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: Isaiah 45: 5-8; Matthew 5: 13-16 “On Being Congregational in a Post-Denominational World” Not long ago, I received an email from someone new to the area who was...
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“Eat the Document”: Thoughts on the Life of the Mind and the Journey of Faith Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitzTexts: Ezekiel 3: 1-3; Revelation 10: 8-10; Romans 2: 2 In the opening chapters of the book of Ezekiel, we find one of the stranger scenes in all of Scripture: the...
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“Hello From the Other Side” Rev. Dr. Steve JungkeitTexts: John 20: 1, 11-18, 19-22 As on Easters past, I’d like to begin by returning us to Maundy Thursday, and to the long night many of us spent reading Dante’s Paradiso together. It’s an impossible...
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“On Shout-outs, Multitudes, and the Things That Make for Peace” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-NagerText: Luke 19:35-42 4/13/25 “I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:40 Rain poured down my green umbrella into my collar and trickled down my back as...
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“Ministries of Reconciliation: Reports on Cuba” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Ruth 1: 15-18; 2 Corinthians 5: 17-18 In the Afro-Cuban world, the dead are never remote. They are always near at hand. They guide, they support, they rebuke, they intervene, they...
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“The Deported God” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Luke 10: 25-37; I Corinthians 1 and 2 (Selected Passages) We are in the season of Lent, and so I’m going to begin today in the same fashion with which the Apostle Paul starts in his letter to the...
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“Reflections On Sharing Humanity” Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager “Reflections on Sharing Humanity” Walking up the sidewalk towards our church this morning, we all had to dodge the tents set up on our front lawn. Last night was pretty windy and chilly and our Youth Group...
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“Toward a Theology of Mission: The Big Tent, The Long Pole, and the Ever-Widening Circles” Rev. Carleen R. Gerber Texts:...
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“A Demonstration Plot for the Kingdom of God: Solentiname” Rev. Dr. Steve Jungkeit Texts: Mark 1: 9-13; Luke 4: 14-19 Today marks the first Sunday of Lent, when we begin to follow Jesus on his pathway toward Jerusalem. For Lent this year, we’ve transformed the...
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“The World House: Some Lessons from Pentecost” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Text: Acts 2: 1-13 Were you to press me to name a favorite biblical story, I would respond without hesitation. It is the story we just heard, the giving of the Holy Spirit in...
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“Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air” Rev. Dr. Steven Jungkeit Texts: Matthew 17: 1-9 Here’s a song made famous by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1947, a song that went on to become an anthem of the civil rights era: Up above my head, I hear music...
