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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,...
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...
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.
PHILIPPIANS 3:2-14 Our second passage is from Philippians - chapter 3, verses 2-14. In this letter Paul has been giving thanks for the Philippians, and exhorting them to live lives of humility and Christlikeness, and to be...
Joy Will Overflow
PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11 We’re in the second week of a series we’re calling, Finding a Deeper Joy, from the letter to the Philippians. Joy is a dominant theme in this letter, and last week, we saw how the seeds of Paul’s joy were...
Seeds of Joy
PHILIPPIANS 1:1-11 This morning, we’re beginning a series through the book of Philippians called, Finding a Deeper Joy. The book of Philippians, which is a brief letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Philippi,...
The Flow of Love and Joy, Rev. Guy Sayles
JOHN 15:1-17 Your life can flow with the energy of love and joy. That’s the promise and invitation of Jesus: from deep within, the flowing and overflowing energy of love. Energy is in short supply these days. The only energy...
A Reason for Hope, Patrick Johnson
JEREMIAH 32:1-3A, 6-15 Over the summer, in worship, we have spent time with the prophets of Israel, as they have helped us to strengthen our prophetic imaginations. Today, as we turn the page from summer to fall, we are...
God’s Abundant Love Sermon, Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo
Matthew 21:23-32 Authority issues. Have you ever known anyone with authority issues? Authority is the theme running throughout today’s gospel. The chief...
Podcast, Rev. Dr. Lynn Turnage
God, the Fickle, Amateur Potter? Rev. David Germer
JEREMIAH 18: 1-11 We’ve spent the entire summer with the prophets, and to some of us putting together these services (and maybe to some of you)… they’re beginning to feel like house-guests who’ve stayed a little too long. We...
Hello, Can You Hear Me Now? Rev. Shannon Jordan
JEREMIAH 1:4-10 Our passage this morning is what is named by my theologians as a call narrative. It is Jeremiah 1:4-10: Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were...
“God’s Good Things” with Rev. Shannon Jordan
Jeremiah 2:1-13 The word of the LORD came to me, saying: Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a...