The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago

Associate Pastor Nancy Benson-Nicol welcomes a Mosaic of Voices, inspired by the vision and work of the Mosaic Project, which is initiated by member Richard Knorr and sponsored by the Spiritual Formation Team. We journey through Lent, gifted with the inspiring and moving perspectives of members of our faith community—in their own words. Each respond to these two questions: “How did you first learn about or experience the season of Lent?” and, “As you enter the season this year, what truth about yourself is Lent asking you to face?” This week, we hear from Funmi Osemi. Pastor Nancy also highlights Lenten motifs rooted in the Gospel of Matthew and Jesus' encounter in the wilderness to invite viewers into contemplation.

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

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)

On this Ash Wednesday, we invite you to pause for a few minutes of reflection guided by the first in our 2026 series of Lenten “Rhythm and Word” podcast.   For this series, Associate Pastor Nancy Benson-Nicol welcomes a Mosaic of Voices. Inspired by the vision and work of the Mosaic Project, initiated by member Richard Knorr and sponsored by the Spiritual Formation Team, we journey through Lent gifted with the inspiring and moving perspectives of members of our faith community—in their own words.    Each respond to these two questions: “How did you first learn about or experience the season of Lent?” and, “As you enter the season this year, what truth about yourself is Lent asking you to face?” Pastor Nancy also highlights Lenten motifs rooted in the Gospel of Matthew and Jesus' encounter in the wilderness to invite viewers into contemplation.

The 11:00a 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)

3 sermons at 11:00am by the Youth of Fourth Church. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

The 9:30a 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)

3 sermons at 9:30am by the Youth of Fourth Church. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Join us this evening as Associate Pastor Nanette Sawyer explores loyalty and radical hospitality in the story of Ruth.

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 Camille Cook Howe. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Join us this evening as Associate Pastor Nanette Sawyer explores the concepts of vocation and calling through the stories of Queen Esther and Fannie Lou Hamer.   How are we called to live out our own unique vocations in times such as this? We remember our source in God as we do the work that we are called to do.

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

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)

Join us this evening as Senior Associate Pastor Rocky Supinger concludes a series on the theme of resolve in the life of faith.   In this podcast, Rocky explores God's resolve in the statement, “I will be their God,” which appears multiple times throughout the Bible. How does this truth inspire the resolution of our own faith?   We hope you will join us for this midweek reflection!

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 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)

Join us this evening as Senior Associate Pastor Rocky Supinger continues a series on the theme of resolve in the life of faith.   In this third of four podcasts, Rocky explores the concept of God's resolve and how it relates to our own, turning to Joseph and Mary to uncover how this plays out in their lives.   We hope you will join us for this midweek reflection!

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

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)

Join us this evening as Senior Associate Pastor Rocky Supinger continues a series on the theme of resolve in the life of faith. In this second of four podcasts, Rocky explores the concept of choice in how it relates to faithful resolve. We hope you will join us for this midweek reflection!

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 Camille Cook Howe. 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 episode, Senior Associate Pastor Rocky Supinger begins a new series on the theme of resolve in the life of faith. In this first of four videos, Rocky explores the concept of covenantal resolve as described in the twenty-fourth chapter of Exodus and in our liturgy as we reaffirm our baptismal covenants on the Baptism of Our Lord Sunday.

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

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)

As we move into the new year, Associate Pastor Nanette Sawyers guides us in reflecting on this past year and looking ahead to a new day and a new year. We remember that God is alive in us and that we can trust in God's light and love. We also offer a musical piece in the form of a Taizé chant, singing: The Lord is my light, my light and salvation, in God I trust, in God I trust.

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 Joseph L. Morrow. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

As we move from Advent into the celebration of Christmas and the birth of Emmanuel, God with us, we invite you to take a few moments to reflect with this “Rhythm and Word” video. May the wonder and joy of the gift born in the manger come alive for you throughout this season!

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat" was presented in lieu of a sermon on December 21, 2025. 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)

Although the time period after the exile did not unfold in the way that was initially expected, a new expectation began to build around a coming Messiah, one from David's lineage, who would help usher in this new age.  In this episode, Matt Helms invites us to reflect on Daniel's vision of a time when the empires of the world lose their dominion, lose their power — a power that is instead given to this mysterious figure known as the Son of Man. This returns us to the idea of covenant that has been a throughline throughout this series.   Crucially, we see a new aspect of the covenant drawn in. This is not just a promise for a particular people in a particular place. Instead, we have moved from the particular to the universal — and it is those broadened hopes for all creation that lie behind Jesus' arrival. 

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 Camille Cook Howe. 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 episode we are exploring the return from exile and the era of the Second Temple. What seems to have emerged in the century following the return from exile was a tension between a sort of isolationist wing and a more universalist wing. There were those who wanted to remove all foreigners and double and triple down on following the Law, while others advocated for understanding God as being the God of all people and all nations, not just Israel alone. Here Matt Helms invites us to reflect on some thoughtful and incisive questions that the book of Jonah has to ask of us, primarily around our own sense of self-righteousness, and times when that conflicts with an expansive understanding of God's love and mercy. Ultimately, this view that God is the God of all people wins out. And even though things aren't perfect, hopes begin to rise around a Savior, a Messiah, who will help to truly usher in an age where God is in control — not just in the present time, but forever.

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 Camille Cook Howe. 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 episode we are focusing on hope in exile. Today we specifically focus on the prophet Jeremiah and the boldness of promising those who are in exile that they will return home and the encouragement to continue living life to the fullest, even in a land and place they did not choose or want.   Matt Helms invites us to reflect on how God's grace pushes and challenges us to expand our hearts and minds — not dividing this world into “friends” and “enemies,” but seeking to broaden our definition of neighbor.  That's no small feat, and it won't easily be done, but it is the base on which our collective hopes might begin to flourish — trying to build a world that cares for all people, one in which there is a future defined by hope over fear, and abundance over scarcity.  

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 Camille Cook Howe. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

On this Thanksgiving Day, we invite you to join Matt Helms for a time of centering, reflecting, and giving thanks as we stand on the cusp of an entirely new season in our church calendar known as Advent.  As we continue along our Bible in 100 Passages journey, our scripture passages this time are perhaps discordant with the celebrations of Thanksgiving. However, one of the remarkable things about the prophets, even in the early days of the Exile, was that they refused to lose their faith in God's future.  The dichotomy between mourning and expectation, loss and new vision is a perfect way to enter into the season of Advent this upcoming Sunday, beginning a new liturgical year with an acknowledgement that our world is not yet the way we know God would have it be, and yet remaining ever hopeful for the day when God's promises are known in full. 

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 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)

In this tenth week of our “Bible in 100 Passages” journey, we are exploring the prophets. Today we specifically focus on the prophet Amos, who told the people that if they think they are following God's will, they have failed. They have focused on the ritual of looking faithful rather than actually being faithful.   Here, Matt Helms invites us to reflect on how the vision the prophets provide is compelling and hopeful — as it dares us to believe that a world of justice, a world where millions aren't marginalized in poverty, might one day exist.  

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 Camille Cook Howe. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

Matt Helms continues our weekly “Rhythm and Word”  reflections on texts in our “Bible in 100 Passages” journey. In this ninth week, we are exploring the fracturing of the kingdom. In this divided time, we see the rise of the countercultural voice of the prophets, who are often the lone dissenters to kings. How can these prophets give us courage to be truth-tellers in our own contexts?

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 Camille Cook Howe. 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 eighth week of our “Bible in 100 Passages” journey, we are exploring the life of Solomon, son of David. In his story, we see the construction of the long-awaited temple, and we enter a golden age of this journey. Today we particularly reflect on the wisdom of Solomon as found in the words of Ecclesiastes.

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)