The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago

Joe Morrow continues a series about the people who have shaped his faith journey and views. Joe takes us back to 1933, reflecting on the writings of Dorothy Day in the Catholic Worker and focusing on her involvement in community building through hospitality houses during a time of economic collapse. How can we each take inspiration from Dorothy Day to make individual efforts to show similar hospitality to others?

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A sermon by Nancy Benson-Nicol. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Associate Pastor Joe Morrow continues a series about the people who have shaped his faith journey and views.  Joe reflects on the writings of mystic and Trappist monk Thomas Merton, focusing on the movement from the mind to the heart and opening ourselves to the mystical, which inspires us to find peace with others, ourselves, and with God.

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A sermon by Rocky Supinger. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

With this podcast Associate Pastor Joe Morrow begins a new series about the people who have shaped his faith journey and views. Joe reflects on the neighbor-focused theology of missionary Kōsuke Koyama as presented in his book, Water Buffalo Theology. We use this theology to ask ourselves if we are here to harm or to help our neighbors.

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A sermon by Bob Hagel. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Rocky Supinger concludes the series on G. K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy by discussing how Chesterton argued that some ideal must motivate political engagement. We reflect on how Chesterton proposed “reform” as an alternative to the ideals of “evolution” or “progress” that were popular during his time.

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A sermon by Rocky Supinger. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Rocky Supinger continues the series on G.K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy by discussing the central experience of faith, which is the central experience of life — mystery and familiarity — at the same time. We reflect on how life within this faith is “eternal” life. It goes on like this forever, not because of us, but also never without us.    

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Rocky Supinger continues the series on G.K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy by discussing the relationship of place to our faith. We reflect on how our love of places is an expression of our love for the people with whom we share those places. Our love for the place we live is, ultimately, an expression of our love of God.   

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

This podcast is the first of four in a series on the works that have had the greatest impact on Senior Associate Pastor Rocky Supinger's faith — Heretics and Orthodoxy by British novelist and essayist Gilbert Keith Chesterton. This evening we reflect on how Chesterton's writings were about the kind of outlook on life that faith should give us — a life of purpose. The Lord didn't really give the disciples a detailed process for doing that or insist on a metric of efficiency. Rather, he gave us an aim to pursue, a wild, seemingly unattainable aim. The strength of our faith will be measured, then, in our commitment to that aim — not in spite of the aim's grandiosity, but because of it.  

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Here to the story of Priscilla and Aquila in Acts 18:1–4, 18–27. As we think about these verses and others where they are mentioned, Matt Helms invites us to consider how Priscilla and Aquila are teachers to the teachers of the early church. We also give thanks for those who have shaped our own spiritual lives, just as Priscilla and Aquila did in the early church.

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Today we turn to the story of Lydia in Acts 16:11–14. As we think about that text, Matt Helms invites us to consider how representative Lydia is of how the church was able to grow and sustain itself as it spread in the Roman Empire. We also ponder how these stories of those in the early church speak to the importance of every member of the church being invested in the work that we are called to do.

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A sermon by Rocky Supinger. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

In this podcase we turn to the story of a meeting between Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10.  As we think about that text, Matt Helms invites us to consider how Cornelius helps Peter — and us today — to realize that the church is not beholden to the way that things have always been and that the church is dynamic and always changing.

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A sermon by Matt Helms. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Drawing from Acts 9:36–43, Matt Helms invites us to consider Tabitha's discipleship and quiet leadership in the early church, touching the lives of so many with her good works and charity.

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

In this installment, we turn to Philip and the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26–39.  Matt Helms invites us to consider how this interaction showed openness and welcome in the early church as Philip baptized the eunuch even though the eunuch was not part of a faith community. We also pause to ask how we might similarly welcome and embrace people where they are on their faith journeys today.

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An Easter sermon by Nanette Sawyer. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Associate Pastor Matt Helms leads our reflection on how those who worked behind the scenes in the early church provide us with examples of how we all can fill such roles and responsibilities as the church today.

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An Easter sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

A short midweek Lenten reflection by Nancy Benson-Nicol, Associate Pastor Exploring Matthew 27 and Psalm 22 as resources for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

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A Palm Sunday sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

A short midweek Lenten reflection by Joe Morrow, Associate Pastor Exploring Psalm 139 as a resource for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

A short midweek Lenten reflection by Nancy Benson-Nicol, Associate Pastor Exploring the book of Psalms as a resource for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

A short midweek Lenten reflection by Joseph L. Morrow, Associate Pastor Exploring the book of Psalms as a resource for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)