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The Unwanted Name of Blessing
June 30, 2024 The Unwanted Name of Blessing Genesis 32:22-31 Rev. Lea Brown Glorious God, we thank you for this beautiful summer day. We thank you for this beautiful place in which to worship, God, which certainly is beautiful...
Open Wide Your Hearts
June 23, 2024 Open Wide Your Hearts 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 We are in a series this summer in 2 Corinthians, and today's reading comes from the sixth chapter of that letter. Paul is writing perhaps his most agonized and intimate...
Becoming New
June 16, 2024 Becoming New 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17 Rev. Shannon Jordan So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by...
We Proclaim Jesus Christ
May 2, 2024 We Proclaim Christ Jesus Psalm 139 1-6, 13-18; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 Sometimes, more often than we realize probably, the words of scripture have the power to stand on their own – if we will sit with them, let them...
Born Again
May 26, 2024 Born Again John 3:1-17 Rev. David Germer Our second reading is from John 3. Listen for God’s Word: Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi,...
Fan into Flame
May 19, 2024 Fan Into Flame 2 Timothy 1:1-8 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from...
The Work of Unity
May 12, 2024 The Work of Unity John 17:6-21 Rev. Shannon Jordan 'I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that...
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
May 5, 2024 What a Friend We Have in Jesus John 15:9-17 A few years ago a friend from seminary—well, I say he's a friend; he was a friend then, today he's more of a Facebook friend, you know what I mean—posted a picture on...
A Wonderous Encounter
April 28, 2024 A Wonderous Encounter Acts 8:26-40 Our second reading comes from the book of Acts. Acts is the story of how a group of frightened disciples became a band of bold Apostles. It's the story of the expansion of the...
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...