Love Lives here is the sermon podcast for St. Pauls United Church of Christ, a progressive church located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL, at 2335 N. Orchard Street. For more information about St, Pauls, please visit our website at www.spucc.org. At St. Paul’s, everyone is always welcome, no matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey.
How are we to understand Jesus' feeding of the 5000 today? Rev. Dr. Jeff Carlson provides a fresh look at the familiar story in this sermon, preached on July 25, 2021 at St. Pauls United Church of Christ, an open and affirming church were all are always welcome. Please join us for worship on Sundays at 10AM Central Time, in-person at 2335 N. Orchard Street in Chicago, or online at spucc.org/streaming.
A sermon drawing from Mark 6:7-32. Preached by Rev. Dr. Jeff Carlson at St. Pauls UCC, Chicago, on July 18, 2021. St. Pauls is an open and affirming church where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship Sundays at 10AM, online at spucc.org/streaming or in person at 2335 N. Orchard Street, Chicago, Illinois.
A sermon based on Psalm 24, preached by Rev. Matt Fitzgerald, Senior Pastor of St. Paul’s UCC, a church in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship Sundays at 10AM Central Time, 2355 N. Orchard Street, Chicago, or online at spucc.org/streaming.
A sermon for Pride Sunday, preached by Rev. Matt Fitzgerald on June 27, 2021 at St. Pauls United Church of Christ, an open and affirming church in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship Sunday’s at 10AM Central Time at 2355 N. Orchard Street, Chicago, or online at spucc.org/streaming.
In Mark 4:35-41, Jesus calms the waves and makes the terrified disciples marvel that "even the wind and the waves obey him!" In this sermon, we look not at how Jesus calms us but how he stirs us, how he empowers us to live creatively in the tension between the "actual" world, and the possible. Preached by Rev. Matt Fitzgerald on Sunday, June 20, 2021 at St. Pauls UCC, a progressive Christian church in Chicago where all are always welcome. Join us for church on Sundays at 10:00am, in person at 2335 N. Orchard Street, Chicago, or online: http://spucc.org/streaming
A sermon for the first Sunday morning, in-person worship since the COVID pandemic began. Preached June 13, 2021 by Rev. Matt Fitzgerald, Senior Pastor of St. Pauls UCC in Chicago. St. Pauls is an open and affirming Christian community in Chicago where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship, Sundays at 10am, CDT, in-person at 2335 N. Orchard Street, Chicago, or online at https://spucc.org/streaming.
Benny VanDerburgh preaches the final sermon of his pastoral internship. Based on selections from 1 Samuel, and preached during virtual worship on June 6, 2021. St. Pauls UCC is a progressive Christian community in Chicago where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship, Sundays at 10am, CDT, in-person at 2335 N. Orchard Street, Chicago, or online at https://spucc.org/streaming.
On this sermon for Trinity Sunday, Jeff Carlson brings us a new look at how the Spirit of God invites us to belong to "a community of love that can hold the pain of all creation," and how the "interdependence that is creation is an expression of Trinitarian life." Oh... and you'll meet a most amazing octopus. Preached on Sunday, May 30 during virtual worship at St. Pauls UCC, a progressive church in Chicago where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship, Sundays at 10am: https://spucc.org/streaming.
A sermon for confirmation, preached on a Pentecost Sunday, with a necessary reminder to all who have been confirmed that we ought to cherish that teenage fire, in our kids and in ourselves. Preached by Rev. Matt Fitzgerald during virtual worship on Sunday, May 16, 2021 at St. Pauls United Church of Christ, a progressive church in Chicago where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship Sundays at 10am. https://spucc.org/streaming
In this sermon on The Ascension, delivered as the COVID pandemic is well into its second year, with hope finally in sight, Rev. Sarah Garcia asks if it isn't time for us all to quit standing and staring and start to "fly" again, as Christians, as a church. Preached during virtual worship on May 16, 2021 at St. Pauls UCC, a progressive Christian church in Chicago where all are always welcome. Please join us for worship on Sundays, 10am Central Time: https://spucc.org/streaming.
