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What Love Does
April 21, 2024 What Love Does 1 John 3:16-24 Rev. David Germer Our second passage is 1 John 3:16-24, which I’ll read in just a moment. In the coming weeks, we are going to have a number of baptisms at FPC, which is so...
While in their Joy
April 14, 2024 While in their Joy Luke 24: 36b-48 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a...
Patterns
April 7, 2024 Patterns Luke 24:13-36 Rev. Shannon Jordan As we read this scripture today, it is easy for us to get lost in the familiar words of this Easter afternoon. Many of us have heard this scripture countless times and...
An Open Ended Gospel
March 31, 2024 An Open-Ended Gospel Mark 16:1-18 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the...
The Mind of Christ
March 24, 2024 The Mind of Christ Philippians 2:5-11 Today marks a transition in the season of Lent. In this one week, the central week of the Christian faith, we are moving from Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday and Good Friday,...
Knowing
March 17, 2024 Knowing Jeremiah 31:31-34 Rev. Shannon Jordan We are continuing our focus during Lent of exploring more deeply the Old Testament lesson for the morning. We have been exploring God’s covenants with God’s...
Saved From, Saved For
“Saved From, Saved For” Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21 March 10, 2024 Rev. David Germer Well our sermons in Lent have been focusing on the Old Testament or Hebrew Scripture passages... but this week, we agreed that that Numbers...
Words that Shape Us
March 3, 2024 Words that Shape Us Exodus 20:1-17 Then God spoke all these words, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods...
The Absurdity of the Promise
2-25-2024 The Absurdity of the Promise Genesis 17:1-7, 15-17 17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be blameless. 2 And I will make my...
Why Transfiguration?
February 11, 2024 Why Transfiguration? Mark 9:2-8 Rev. Shannon Jordan Today is Transfiguration Sunday. Have you ever wondered why this is a thing? Why do we have Transfiguration Sunday every year the Sunday before Ash...
From Memory to Hope
From Memory to Hope Isaiah 40:21-31 We’re in Epiphany, which is the season in the church year between Christmas and Lent. The theme of Epiphany is the light of God shining in the darkness. In today’s reading from the gospel of...
The First Triumphal Entry
January 28, 2024 The First Triumphal Entry Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Mark 1:21-28 Rev. David Germer The first three Sundays of January, Patrick preached through what I found to be, and the feedback from many of you...