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To Ourselves We Seemed Like Grasshoppers: Why the Stories We Tell Matter Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Text: Numbers 13 (selected verses) April 24, 2022 Theology matters. Which is to say, the deep stories we tell ourselves about the world...April 17, 2022 Sermon
The Many Resurrections of Easter Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: John 11: 17-24; Luke 23: 32-34; Luke 24: 1-12; Romans 12: 3-5 April 17, 2022 Easter Sunday One of the great challenges of Easter Sunday is the array of beliefs and...April 10, 2022 Sermon
Here Comes Life: Stories of Resilience, Risk and Rejoicing Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Micah 6:8, Matthew 20:29-34, Matthew 21:1-10 It is Holy Week. The minute we started singing All Glory Laud and Honor and the children...April 3, 2022 Sermon
Every Rung Goes Higher and Higher: Reflections on Palestine, Israel, and the Middle East Steve Jungkeit Ghoufran Allababidi (President, Tree of Life), Alex Pinkowish, and Rev. Susan Callahan Switzer, with music by Rodney Brown The First Congregational Church of Old...March 27, 2022 Sermon
Twelve Gates to the City: Reflections on New Orleans Steve Jungkeit Beth Hamilton, and Martha Gibson with music by Rodney Brown The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Psalm 30; John 14: 1-4; Revelation 21: 9-14 March 27, 2022 We begin with a song made...March 20, 2022 Sermon
The Glory of God is the Human Being Fully Alive The spotlight glowed on the shining faces of the five actors entering the small stage from the wings. They were shining like the sun. Each person moved individually and yet as one, twirling arms, making noises, twisting...March 13, 2022 Sermon
Overcoming the Spider’s Sting: Original Sin and its Discontents Some years ago, I had an uncomfortable realization as I was reading a book called The Black Dahlia, by the great noir crime writer James Ellroy. Now, I want you to know that I love noir as a genre – it’s...March 6, 2022 Sermon
I Have Called You Friends Here’s a story I recently heard about someone who needed a basic form of human contact, but who couldn’t find it. The story is about a man named Kevin Hines. He was suffering from feelings of isolation and loneliness, as well as other, more...February 27, 2022 Sermon
A World on the Brink: Lessons from a Minor Prophet Midway through Tolstoy’s War and Peace, we find this haunting description of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia: “On the 12th of June the forces of Western Europe crossed the frontier and the war began, that is, an event...February 6, 2022 Sermon
Here Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Genesis 11: 1-9; I Corinthians 12: 7-14 February 6, 2022 One of the people from whom I’ve drawn inspiration over the past few years is the musician David Byrne. He was the lead singer for the...January 30, 2022 Sermon
A Faithfully Hidden Life: Snowy Reflections upon Middlemarch Steve JungkeitThe First Congregational Church of Old LymeTexts: Genesis 11: 1-9; I Corinthians 12: 7-14January 30, 2022 I had us read that familiar parable that Jesus told about the sower and the seed that...January 23, 2022 Sermon
All This Sainted Difference is What God Wants: The Spiritual Legacy of Robert Farris Thompson Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: John 3: 1-8; Acts 2: 1-13 January 23, 2022 “Keith’s death is incomprehensible. I refuse to believe that...January 16, 2022 Sermon
Remember Your Baptism Steve Jungkeit The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Mark 1: 4-11; Acts 19:1-7 January 16, 2022 I want to begin by acknowledging the circumstances in which we find ourselves today. Winter has found us, which means that for the last...January 9, 2022 Sermon
The Wrestling Place: On the Edge of Hope Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme Texts: Genesis 32:22-31 January 9, 2022 Everyday we are learningHow to live with essence, not ease. How to move with haste, never hate. How to live this pain...Upcoming Events
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