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It's amazing what we remember and how we remember it, it is also amazing how much we forget. Memory is a complex function of our being human that allows us to make sense of our current situation. This week the truth-teller and social critic tells us to le
Saint Augustine taught that human beings are driving by their desires, so we must strive to have the right desires. Using C.S. Lewis, Augustine and a great poem by Coleridge, Dr. Jim Keck will call for us to desire the most noble things in life.
Evil is manifested around us in so many ways. It is the antithesis of love, freedom, and God-self. In the ritual for baptism people are often called to resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever form in may present itself. Resistance is a call for
Sermon from First-Plymouth Church's Podcast
Hell Revised with Dr. Jim Keck
Sermon from First-Plymouth Church's Podcast
Family traits are always interesting. Often we see traits in us that remind us of a parent, grandparent, at other times we see our ways in our children, grandchildren, a niece or a nephew. Sometimes the way one looks goes back to a previous generation. It
It is easy to find an other, someone that is different than us, who does not represent who we claim to be, who does not behave like we believe a human being should, and whose mere presence around us makes us cringe, fearful, or disgusted. Jesus too encoun
So many of us have experienced church as judgmental, shaming, and as a place that curses rather than bless. This week we encounter a difficult passage where Jesus himself speaks words of warning to all who are listening. Why? Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas in
Willam Butler Yeats wrote a poem about how living by a lake, and the water lapping with low sounds on the shore, brought a deep peace to his heart. In Luke chapter 5 Jesus teaches by the lakeside. Let’s gather with him by the water this weekend and as Y
It will be the first time ever in a sermon that the great love poem by Paul in 1st Corinthians, Plato’s notion of the Ladder of Love in the Symposium and the 1980’s British/American Rock band Foreigner are merged together. All in the hope that we will
For most of us expectations set our reality. This is no different in our spiritual lives. This week Pastor JC invites us into what happens when Jesus preaches a difficult sermon and the reaction of the crowd turns violent -- their expectations were obviou