The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago

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.

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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.

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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.

The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music.

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A sermon by Tom Are Jr.

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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.