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Reach Out & Live: First-Plymouth (20th & D)

Sermons and worship from the 9:00/10:30 am service at First-Plymouth at 20th & D.

Jun 1, 2025 4:00 AM America/Chicago

On Fear - June 01, 2025 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

There is so much fear these days, so much fear mongering, and so much to be fearful of. This week Pastor JC invites us to pay attention to our fear but not to let it take over our lives. Instead there is an invitation, to embrace community, to lean into u

May 25, 2025 5:30 AM America/Chicago

The Face of God - May 25, 2025 - Pastor Jim Keck - Sermon

Near the very end of the Bible is a beautiful description of heaven and how we will live in the full light of God. But Heaven is not only something that we experience after we die. There are many chances to experience a slice of heaven in this life and Dr

Humans mark time in a variety of ways, holidays originally were days of observance, of remembering something that was important. Now it often turns into time off, or a time to celebrate with friends, disconnected from the Holy or is it? This week Pastor J

May 18, 2025 4:30 AM America/Chicago

The Home of God - May 18, 2025 - Pastor Jim Keck - Sermon

We often think of God's home as otherworldly, above, heaven, ethereal, maybe even sublime. This week the scriptures gives us a much more common and accessible picture, God's home is among us. Yes, right here, where we live, work, and play. This says somet

May 11, 2025 4:30 AM America/Chicago

Soul - May 11, 2025 - Pastor Jim Keck - Sermon

Dr. Jim Keck will share how Dr. Martin Luther King played such a large role in his childhood. He will also explain that they share the same theological perspective that was developed at Boston University in the mid-twentieth century. Pastor Jim believes t

Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem. According to the synoptic gospels, Jesus then goes to the temple and throws over the tables. What an incredible juxtaposition of gentleness and strong protest. What is Jesus up to? Dr. Jim Keck will

In one of the great stories in scripture, Jesus enters the city of Jerusalem on a donkey where he is received as a hero by the crowds. This celebration is called Palm Sunday and it initiates the holiest of weeks in the Christian calendar. It turns out tha

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

Apr 6, 2025 4:00 AM America/Chicago

Selective Memory - April 06, 2025 - Pastor Jim - Sermon

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

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

Feb 16, 2025 3:00 AM America/Chicago

Caution! - February 16, 2025 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

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

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