Episodes

  • A Posture Of Soul

    A Posture Of Soul
    Jul 2 2024
    Thank you so much to everyone who's listened to our Podcast over the last several years - this will be our final edition of the Redheaded Preacher as Pastor Lanford has retired. It's been such a wonderful experience, finding our podcast was listened to so many people around the globe. Thank you so much. We leave you with these final words, spoken by Pastor so many times: Go in Peace Keep the Faith Love one another Serve the Lord!
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    34 mins
  • Saving Our Humanity

    Saving Our Humanity
    Jun 24 2024
    This Sunday is Pride Sunday observed, and this guided both the Scriptures chosen and the sermon written. The passages are Genesis 18 on hospitality, Acts 8:4-8, 26-40 about Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, and Luke 10 with the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The fearless and barrier-breaking acts of welcome and grace we see in those men towards “the other” or even “the enemy” remind us of what we need to do to save our humanity in these divided and often heartless times. “Go and do likewise!” Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    36 mins
  • Here's Spit In Your Eye

    Here's Spit In Your Eye
    Jun 18 2024
    This homily is guided not by the fact this Sunday is Father’s Day, but by the choice of Rev. Lanford to offer the Service of Healing within the worship time on more time before he retires on June 30th. Thus, he explores the halting healing of Mark 8:22-36 within its narrative context, as well as briefly touching on why Jesus used saliva as something to put on a man’s eye. The key Scripture is Mark 8, but listeners will also hear the healing in Mark 2:1ff., and Acts 3:1-10 at the Beautiful Gate at the Temple. Our apologies to fathers hoping for a message intended for them! Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    31 mins
  • Purposes Begun, Purposes Fulfilling

    Purposes Begun, Purposes Fulfilling
    Jun 10 2024
    This homily is inspired in part by the fact that we are celebrating an infant baptism in between the Scriptures and the homily, and by the readings. Those are Psalm 138, Mark 4:30-34, and Philippians 1:3-11. There is a theme within them of God’s purposes and them being fulfilled (by God). Yet do we not also have a role in them being fulfilled, as in by cooperating with God? And what neat thing can the mustard seed parable tell us about God’s purposes and our lives? Tune in and be encouraged! Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    30 mins
  • Nevertheless: Jesus

    Nevertheless: Jesus
    Jun 3 2024
    Jesus faced a lot of opposition from the Jewish religious establishment in Jerusalem, and here they clash verbally over Sabbath law interpretations in the field, and Jesus tries to take them to school over the same subject while preparing to heal a man’s withered hand in a synagogue. That was also on a Sabbath, perhaps the same day as in the field! Rev. Lanford lifts up at the end how the opposition faced by Jesus has a parallel in our discipleship through the world making it hard to be a person devoted to agape love, forgiveness, justice and compassion. The Spirit in Jesus taking on the Pharisees lives on in His followers facing hardship, thanks to God. Listen in! Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    27 mins
  • Spirit Received, Spirit - Led

    Spirit Received, Spirit - Led
    May 28 2024
    This is Trinity Sunday and the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. Our Scriptures are mostly from the lectionary: John 3:1-17, Romans 8:12-17, Isaiah 6:1-8, and John 15:12-17. Rev. Richard Lanford focuses on Romans primarily, after asking what spirit leads our lives, reports that Paul expects Christ-followers to have received the Spirit of God, making us children of God, belonging to God and God’s family. Moreover this means we have the Spirit of God’s love in and around us, leading us how to live, including love’s frequent consequence, sacrifice and even suffering, for the good of the beloved. Can we be so led as Jesus was? Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    39 mins
  • The Church In The Power Of The Spirit 2024

    The Church In The Power Of The Spirit 2024
    May 24 2024
    Today we celebrate the Day of Pentecost. Our Scriptures are from Ezekiel 37:1-14, selected verses from John 15 and 16, and, of course, Acts 2:1-21. Rev. Lanford gives an overview of the baptism of the Spirit and what happened in the streets as the once-fearful disciples brought the good news to Jewish pilgrims in languages they could understand. What are some ways the Church might try to talk people’s language today? How about the challenge that lots of people don’t have the desire or the time for church, let alone be able to intentionally form communities of caring? We hope you find this message both challenging and encouraging! Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    33 mins
  • Hannah, Jesus And Mothering Church

    Hannah, Jesus And Mothering Church
    May 14 2024
    The Redheaded Preacher departs from the Revised Common Lectionary for Mother’s Day by picking only Isaiah 66:10 -14 from its suggested readings; he went to passages from First Samuel 1 and 2, and Mark 10:13-16 for other aspects of motherhood, children, and characteristics befitting the Body of Christ on earth as we relate to children. Hannah giving up her son Samuel to the priesthood offers a different perspective to moms who think their children belong to the parents and not also to the Lord; Jesus shows us warm compassion to kids and points us to what a ‘mothering’ church can look like today. Please hit subscribe if you like what you've heard!! We'd also appreciate your 5 star rating and review wherever you're hearing this. Donations to further our mission and support this podcast can be made at paypal.me/stpeteruccskokie Check out our website for events, happenings and more! https://stpeteruccskokie.org. You can find us online and on most social media platforms by typing stpeteruccskokie in your browser. Thanks for listening!!
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    29 mins