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Salt and Light

February 5, 2023Salt and LightMatthew 5:13-20 During this season of Epiphany, we’re in a sermon series called Walk in the Light, looking at some of Jesus’ most important teachings in chapters four and five of the gospel of...

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Blessing and Vulnerability

January 29, 2023Blessing and VulnerabilityMatthew 5:1-12 In this sermon series, called “Walk in the Light,” we will spend the next several weeks in the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus teaches us how to walk in the light, how to...

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Prioritizing People

January 22, 2023Prioritizing PeopleMatthew 4:12-23 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,...

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Jesus in Three Places

January 15, 2023Jesus in Three PlacesMatthew 25:31-40 You may have noticed on the church website or bulletin that we are a Matthew 25 congregation. What is that? Matthew 25 is an effort by our denomination, the PCUSA, to bring...

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Faithfulness in Small Things

January 8, 2023Faithfulness in Small ThingsMatthew 3:13-17 Today we are remembering the baptism of Jesus. His baptism sets the pattern for our baptism. He was baptized to share our life. We are baptized to share his life....

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Decisions and Dreams

Matthew 1:18-25 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph,...

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Bearing Good Fruit

MATTHEW 3:1-12 In those days, John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near. This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, ‘The voice of one...

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Wait. Watch. Work

MATTHEW 24:36-46 Raise your hand if you grew up Presbyterian? Raise your hand if, for you, Advent was a countdown to remembering the birth of Christ. Raise your hand, if, for you, Advent was a time to prepare for Jesus’s second...

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The Best/Worst Thank You Note Ever

PHILIPPIANS 4:10-20 Today’s reading will conclude our series in the book of Philippians, a series in which we have focused on the deep joy God gives us in the life of faith. Today we will hear, tucked in the lines of the best...

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Relief or Joy

PHILIPPIANS 3:20-4:9 For several weeks, the Apostle Paul’s letter to Christians in the ancient city of Philippi has been our guide to exploring deeper wells of joy. The joy of sharing the life of faith with one another. The joy...

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Current Covid Policy

Given the Covid infection rates, as well as availability of vaccines and boosters, the session of First Presbyterian has set the current mask policy to masks optional for all services, classes and spaces. At any given event,...

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Walk In This Way

PHILIPPIANS 3:14-4:1 4 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God...

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