First Presbyterian Church Of San Anselmo
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Sinopse
Join us as each week as we explore and practice what it means to express God's love for the world. First Presbyterian is an inclusive congregation located in the heart of Marin County, California. We are a church that feels called to love one another, express gratitude, ease suffering, and work for justice.
Episódios
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Saints Seen and Unseen -- Hebrews 11 (All Saints' Sunday)
04/11/2024 Duração: 21minOn All Saints’ Sunday, we remember how we have seen God at work in the lives of the saints. This Scripture reminds us that what God is doing in the world is so much bigger even than what eye can see and ear can hear.
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They Persisted - Mark 10:46-52 (Rev. Beverly Brewster, preaching; 23rd Sunday After Pentecost)
29/10/2024 Duração: 21min -
Rubble -- Ezra 3:1-3, 8-13 (21st Sunday After Pentecost)
14/10/2024 Duração: 23minOver the course of the Scriptures through the Hebrew Scriptures, and really on into the New Testament, again and again, a tenacious people make meaning out of the recurring rubble of their world. Standing in the reality of that rubble, the people lament even as they glimpse a path toward healing, weeping, and shouting, and singing “God is good. God is good. God’s steadfast love endures forever.” God creates us for life in community and accompanies us so that, in a changing world, even in calamity, we can find our way to life.
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"The Welcome Table" -- Mark 6:30-44 (World Communion Sunday)
06/10/2024 Duração: 22minAt the Welcome Table, Jesus invites one and all, the deep need of the world becomes clear, and Jesus says to us, “You give them something to eat.”
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Finding Our Way Home Together -- Mark 6:6-13 (Homecoming Sunday; 17th Sunday After Pentecost)
16/09/2024 Duração: 17minJesus gathers us in and sends us out, insisting that we create home for each other along the way. Home is both a place of shelter, steady and sure – and a vital and living place of encounter – moving out into the world – meeting and greeting the world – in ever-expanding circles of hospitality, welcome, and healing.
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Mind Blowing, Heart Opening Encounters -- Mark 7:24-37 (16th Sunday After Pentecost)
10/09/2024 Duração: 18minIn worship, we welcomed to the pulpit Elder Susan Krehbiel from the Migrant Accompaniment Ministries of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. Looking to the experiences of migrants and those who accompany and support, Krehbiel invited us to consider what we have to learn from heart-opening encounters with each other.
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Sowers Gonna Sow -- Mark 4:1-9 (15th Sunday After Pentecost)
01/09/2024 Duração: 16minA sower went out to sow: In the work we do, the life of Christ comes alive in us.
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Don't Go to Court -- Matthew 18:15-22 (14th Sunday After Pentecost)
25/08/2024 Duração: 22minIn these courtroom scenes in Scripture, we have seen a lot of real life, and we’ve seen God right there in the midst of it all – with truth, wisdom, justice, compassion, mercy, and grace. In this Scripture, Jesus invites us to wade into real life and engage the worthy work of reconciliation.
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"The Quality of Mercy" -- Genesis 45:1-15 (13th Sunday After Pentecost)
18/08/2024 Duração: 22minExtending mercy to the brothers who have done him wrong, Joseph recalibrates entirely our understanding of what it is that we deserve, grounding us in our shared humanity. In God’s mercy, God gives humanity what humanity deserves: Love. Life. Dignity. Food. Water. Access to healthcare. The freedom to live without constant fear of violence. All the things we need to live and to thrive.
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Rev. Scott Quinn, preaching -- Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 (12th Sunday After Pentecost)
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When God Is in the Dock -- Job 23 & 38 (11th Sunday After Pentecost)
05/08/2024 Duração: 21minWe come to the Book of Job – with Job’s big questions – and ours – and we don’t find a neat and tidy answer. We come to the Book of Job – and what we find is a groan and a shout – as ancient as this story, and as fresh and alive as the dawn of this very day. In our suffering, God speaks with us out of the whirlwind, and we live, and we somehow find our way to love.
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When God Brings the Charges -- Isaiah 1:2-3, 12-30 & Isaiah 5 (10th Sunday after Pentecost)
28/07/2024 Duração: 19minIn the reality of climate unraveling, God speaks truth to us, calls us to change, and invites us to become part of the operative healing reality moving forward.
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The Heart of Wisdom -- 1 Kings 3 (9th Sunday After Pentecost)
21/07/2024 Duração: 24minGod’s wisdom calls us to see each other whole, in the fullness of life, and find together the ways of living that lead to more life.
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"What Is Truth?" -- John 18:28-40 (8th Sunday After Pentecost)
15/07/2024 Duração: 21minWe are beginning a sermon series exploring courtroom scenes in Scripture -- scenes that bring real life in focus as we seek some glimpse of the truth. In Jesus' trial before Pontius Pilate, Pilate asks the question, "What is truth?" What we find: Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. We are sent now to testify to that truth, that Word embodied in us.
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Who's in Charge Here? -- Philippians 2:1-12 (7th Sunday After Pentecost)
08/07/2024 Duração: 17minGod is sovereign by sharing God’s own freedom with us, urging us to live out the self-giving love of Christ.
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Everyone Belongs -- Ephesians 2:11-22 (6th Sunday After Pentecost)
30/06/2024 Duração: 21minIn Christ, we are citizens of a new humanity, where all of us belong and participate in the fullness of life. Citizenship is about belonging – that deepest of human needs. And citizenship is about the quality of participation that we put back into the community into which we all have been welcomed.
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Kindred Spirits & Bosom Friends -- 1 Samuel 18:1-8, 20:1-22 (5th Sunday After Pentecost)
24/06/2024 Duração: 22minIn a world that would tear them apart, Jonathan and David choose a better way. Friendship is a chosen relationship with another person in which we come to agree to see and be seen by the other; to act for the other’s good; to be present with each other in challenge and struggle; and to be a loving place to which we can always return. In a world that would separate and tear folks apart, God gives us friendship as a way of living out, with each other, God’s own love and loyalty – God’s own hesed – God’s own unshakeoffable love.
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"Created Equal" -- 1 Samuel 15:35-16:13 (4th Sunday After Pentecost)
17/06/2024 Duração: 25minJuneteenth calls us to remember and celebrate freedom and liberation, but also insists that we remember slavery and its continuing impact on our world today. God creates us all equally human, and insists that we work for the freedom and equality of all.