Conversations Beyond the Pew with the Rev Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church

How do you improve communication?

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Acts 2:1-28



Quotes

Rowan Williams: “Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”



Rita Mae Brown: “Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”



Buddha: “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”



Mark Twain: “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

How do you create a meaningful life?



Sunday, May 12, 2024



Luke 8:1-18



Quotes:

Aristotle: “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”



Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”



Buddha: “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

How do you have energy for what is important?

Do you ever feel like your energy is in short supply and one more thing and you feel leveled?

Sunday, May 5, 2024John 1:1-18

Quotes

Mother Teresa: “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

Dylan Thomas: “Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

How do you love well… especially when others and situations don’t make it easy?



Do you ever feel like the world is lacking love, compassion, understanding, respect, etc?



Do you ever get frustrated with the way people treat one another, the way you’ve been treated or how you respond to others when they aren’t easy to be around?



Sunday, April 28, 2024



John 15:1-21



Quotes

James Baldwin: “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up.”

Lao Tzu: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

Mother Teresa: “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

Dalai Lama: “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

How do you find yourself when you feel lost?

Sunday, April 21, 2024John 10:1-18

Quotes

“Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other.” - John 13:34

“Why do you see the splinter that’s in your brother’s or sister’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?” - Matthew 7:3

“Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.” - Luke 6:37

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” - Luke 6:27

“Therefore, stop worrying about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” - Matthew 6:34

1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13. “Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant, it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints, it isn’t happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things…. Now faith, hope, and love remain - these three things - and the greatest of these is love.”

Coretta Scott King says: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

John Lewis says: “What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and it's grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.”

How do you move forward in life?

Sunday, April 14, 2024

John 21:1-8

Sayings of Jesus:

“Why do you see the splinter that’s in your brother’s or sister’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?” - Matthew 7:3

“Whoever hasn’t sinned should throw the first stone.” John 8:7

“If you forgive the sins of any, they will be forgiven.” John 20:23

“Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other.” - John 13:34

“Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives? What will people give in exchange for their lives.” - Matthew 16:25-27

“Much will be demanded from everyone who has been given much, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.” - Luke 12:48