Browse published episodes from Pastor Jim Keck in First-Plymouth Church's Podcast.
May 15, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
Using a very different notion of the lightness of being than the Milan Kundera novel, Dr. Keck will explore the dialectic of the lightness and heaviness that makes up our lives. Central to this sermon will be the beautiful line in Matthew 11 when Jesus sa
May 8, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
In our day of groupthink and surly social media conformity where everyone trumpets slogans and takes sides on every issue, it is time to lift up the responsibility for each person to think for themselves. You should have idiosyncratic and unique takes on
May 1, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
In his sermon , Dr. Keck will use the great Damascus road experience of Saul to highlight that the church needs a new encounter with Christ in our own time. The role and place of religion in our culture is under major disruption and it is time for a new j
Apr 24, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
Near the end of John’s gospel there is a verse that sums up its purpose: “But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” Dr. Keck will explo
Apr 17, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
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Mar 27, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
Dr. Jim Keck continues his sermon series using the life of Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was killed for opposing Hitler as our Lenten exemplar of moral courage. This week the sermon will also explore the incredible scene in John 8 where Jesus st
Mar 20, 2022 5:30 AM America/Chicago
This week Dr. Jim Keck begins a three part sermon series about moral courage. Using the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the moral perfection of Jesus, these sermons will seek to help us all muster more courage to strive for the ethical in a c
Mar 6, 2022 3:00 AM America/Chicago
For the first Sunday in Lent, Dr. Jim Keck will show how truth meanders through different religious traditions by using Native American spirituality, Buddhist thought and ancient Greek religion to illuminate the Biblical texts that begin this holy season.
Feb 20, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
In the Gospel of John, Jesus declares the disciples are now his friends. And when friendship emerges it is a truly beautiful thing. The ancient Greeks considered friendship to be the very key to a good life and Jesus perfectly echos Aristotle in his comme
Feb 20, 2022 3:00 AM America/Chicago
Our commitment to love is rooted in the teaching of Jesus who showed us what love looked like not just in his encounters with people around him but in the structures of society. Jesus had much to say about what loving kinship looked like in the midst of s
Feb 13, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Christians have a central prayer that is recited by millions upon millions of people every Sunday in an amazing unison across time and space. But too rarely do we pause to consider the deep spirituality and powerful theology that is embedded in the well w
Feb 6, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Dr. Jim Keck and Rev. Juan Carlos Huertas will go back and forth on the Bible verses that received the most internet searches in 2021. In an 18 minute flurry they will cover texts from John, Romans, Isaiah, Psalms, and Philippians.
Jan 30, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
The Tree of Life is a symbolic/mystical concept that is found in many religions. In Christianity our Bible mentions the Tree of Life right at the very beginning in Genesis and returns to it at the end in Revelation. The Tree of Life symbolizes our interco
Jan 23, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Starting with the odd premise that Leonard Nimoy might have been at the wedding in Cana, Dr. Jim Keck will explore how John Chapter 2 strengthens and informs our faith, as well as guiding us in the living of our days.
Jan 16, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Starting with the odd premise that Leonard Nimoy might have been at the wedding in Cana, Dr. Jim Keck will explore how John Chapter 2 strengthens and informs our faith, as well as guiding us in the living of our days.
Jan 2, 2022 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Although we just welcomed a little baby in a manger, the lectionary (the scriptures assigned each week for the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches) immediately leaps to Ephesians and the idea that the Christ is the universal essence of reality. We make
Dec 26, 2021 5:00 AM America/Chicago
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Dec 19, 2021 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Advent is a season of reflection, waiting, and preparation. We gather in the midst of the busyness of the season to slow down and remember that the gift of Jesus continues to come into the world as love in the flesh. What does this love look like? How are
Dec 12, 2021 4:30 AM America/Chicago
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Dec 5, 2021 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Advent is a season of reflection, waiting, and preparation. We gather in the midst of the busyness of the season to slow down and remember that the gift of Jesus continues to come into the world as love in the flesh. What does this love look like? How are
Nov 28, 2021 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Advent is a season of reflection, waiting, and preparation. We gather in the midst of the busyness of the season to slow down and remember that the gift of Jesus continues to come into the world as love in the flesh. What does this love look like? How are
Nov 21, 2021 4:30 AM America/Chicago
This festival was established in 1925 by decree of Pope Pius XI. Many Protestant denominations also follow this liturgical practice. One of the traditional readings on this day is from Daniel chapter 7 which describes a throne scene in heaven. What does t
Nov 14, 2021 4:30 AM America/Chicago
Buddhist philosophy sees desire as the cause of our suffering and seeks to eliminate this unsatisfactory aspect of life at its root. Christian philosophy tends to see desire as an essential aspect of the human but something that must be carefully shaped l