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.
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In 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.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In 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 tha…
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Juneteenth 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.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Presence & Peace -- Matthew 28:16-20; Philippians 4:4-7 (2nd Sunday After Pentecost; Rev. Bev Brewster, preaching)
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由Rev. Beverly Brewster, Preaching
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“It Will Not Be Over Until We Talk” --- Luke 7:1-10 (Trinity Sunday; Nick Morris, preaching)
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由Nick Morris, Preaching
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Pentecost is a tale of wind and flame that becomes flesh and bone before our very eyes and ears – one that we can touch and taste and experience in our very bodies. While the day of Pentecost begins in the loneliness of loss and separation, in its mighty wind and crown of flame, we see connection – God and us – us and us. No separation – a leveling…
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The Way of Resurrection is “enfleshed freedom” – an end to every separation and the freedom of every body. By the power of the Spirit, the Way of Resurrection moves us ever and always into more healing, more freedom, more life.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Radiating out with God’s expansive embrace, the Way of Resurrection unfolds in the complexity of human relationship – in the complexity of community.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In the Way of Resurrection, the Spirit radiates out in ever-expanding circles of embrace. In the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch, we see that God welcomes everyone all the way in.由Rev. Scott Clark
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The "Way of Resurrection" is embodied in us. In the Body of the Risen Christ, "Stretch out your hand to heal and bring to life signs and wonders in the name of Jesus."由First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo
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We are witnesses to the Resurrection in what we have seen and heard, and in the lives we live.由Rev. Eric Beene
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The Good News of Easter Morning is a Word of life, love, and abounding grace.由Rev. Scott Clark
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As the Hosannas! of Palm Sunday fade, and as the NOs of Holy Week begin to build, Jesus continues to say YES.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Jesus is the Christ we follow into the suffering of the world, who raises us up into life.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Out of our fear, Jesus calls us to take courage, trust, and walk out into the storm – like Jesus, with Jesus – to sink and rise up again.由First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo
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Teach Us How to Find Forgiveness -- Matthew 18:15-22 (Rev. Marissa Danney, preaching; Second Sunday in Lent)
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Forgiveness can come to life in many forms. Jesus encourages us that we can find (and extend) forgiveness in more ways than we think.由Rev. Marissa Danney, preaching
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Jesus seeks out and calls Peter (and us) into relationship - into community that embodies good news for the poor, healing for every hurt, and freedom from every oppression.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In experiences that are beyond us, God is always bigger, always stronger, always moving the world toward justice, healing, and peace.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Embodying good news, Jesus heals, and takes on the powers, and takes a breath, and keeps on moving.由Rev. Scott Clark
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God is always calling us, always inviting us to pay attention, listen, and live.由Rev. Scott Clark
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What glad news of justice do you bring to the world?由Rev. Dvera Hadden
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On the wilderness road to freedom, God supports and sustains the weary. God encourages us to join the hard work of freedom with humility and mutuality, in ways that also help create some rest for the weary.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Jesus interrupts a world already in progress, and turns power on its head.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Simeon and Anna hold the Christ child and proclaim: This is God’s saving help come yet again, once for all – light and liberation for all people.由Rev. Scott Clark
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With folks all around the world, today is the day we tell the story: In the birth of the Christ, the fresh presence of God comes to life in the fullness of humanity.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Joy is “the fresh presence of God... the fresh action of God,” rising up from the steady and sure saving action of God across all time. Joy is God’s forever longing for human flourishing. In this sermon, we consider “joy because” of the goodness we experience in life, “joy notwithstanding” the challenges and sorrow of life, and “joy against” everyt…
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In a hurting world, Jesus invites us to keep watch for the Advent of God in every moment, as together we make the long journey toward joy.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Listen in as Rev. Dr. Janie Spahr preaches at First Pres San Anselmo.由Rev. Dr. Jane Spahr
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A Place of Thanksgiving -- Psalm 78:1-8, Philippians 1:2-11 (Thanksgiving Sunday; 24th Sunday After Pentecost)
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Our experience of grace and gratitude is not in any way bound or determined or limited by circumstance. In Jesus Christ, God’s grace reaches us and embraces us even in the mire and the muck.由Rev. Scott Clark
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God’s New Creation comes to life, not just in the words we say and sing on Sunday, but in the life we live on Tuesday.由Rev. Scott Clark
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God embodies God’s love for the world in the communion of the saints, all of us embraced, drawn together in one Body. All Saints Day gives us a moment to look back in gratitude, forward in hope, and present in the intention to live so that everyone can be free.由Rev. Scott Clark
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There is a place for you here if you come with questions- about Scripture, about community, about how to live well in the world. There is a place for you here to learn and grow through questions.由Rev. Dvera Hadden
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"In Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” Whoever you are, wherever you are, in the Body of Christ, there is a place for you... here.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In Christ, creation groans in suffering and in hope. In the body of Christ, climate collapse invites us into a practice of reverence, relinquishment, reconciliation, restoration, resilience, and resistance. The sermon included a presentation of Peter Anderson's photos from Standing Rock, which you can see and hear on the worship video (available on…
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Somewhere Between Despair and Hope -- Jeremiah 12:10-13; Romans 8:18-27 (19th Sunday After Pentecost)
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In 2023, as we think of the Earth as our home, we live somewhere between despair and hope. Even as we are honest about the severity of climate disruption, the place for us here is always our place in the Body of Christ – an integrated, interconnected part of all creation – the New Creation – groaning as we birth together something new.…
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As we accompany and extend hospitality to each other, God creates a world of welcome, where everyone is seen as fully human and everyone has enough.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In a world of people on the move, God insists that we love and shelter the stranger. Throughout history and around the world today, God accompanies us as we accompany each other.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In the Body of Christ, love comes to life – as we love with integrity, share in the deep need of the world, and practice hospitality.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Jesus invites us in to work healing and feeding, bringing to life a world of possibility. As Jesus feeds the multitude, Jesus brings the disciples to work, invites them into the building of a brave new world, and says to them: “All this healing, all this feeding, all this life –this is the work that is ours to do together.”…
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The Psalms take us on a journey through the whole of life – and what we find – again and again – everywhere we look – is the goodness of God. The invitation that the Psalms extend is this: Like a tree planted by streams of water, sink your roots deep, and live.由Rev. Scott Clark
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God – in God’s goodness and steadfast love – stands with the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed, in the place of deepest need. In our anger, God invites us to stand there too. The imprecatory psalms point us to the deep pain in the world; they point us to the peril of our propensity for violence; and they point us – through all that – to seek …
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A Recipe for Spiritual Hydration -- Psalm 63 (Rev. Marissa Danney, preaching; 11th Sunday After Pentecost)
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由Rev. Marissa Danney
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"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?" -- Psalm 22 & Matthew 27:45-54 (10th Sunday After Pentecost)
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From the cross, Jesus cries out in the lament of the psalms, and brings us into a new song for a new creation and a brave new world.由Rev. Scott Clark
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When we pray out of our pain, God is listening, and God is for us. In the psalms of lament, we pray in response to the God we have come to know – to the God who has loved us first – and we ask for help.由Rev. Scott Clark
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Fear and Faith -- Psalm 46; Mark 4:35-41 (Rev. Paul Gaffney, preaching; 8th Sunday After Pentecost)
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由Rev. Paul Gaffney
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We praise to name and acknowledge God’s goodness in the world, more powerful than anything that does us harm. “We praise God in order to see the world as God does,” and then to say “Yes!” to helping God make it so.由Rev. Scott Clark
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God searches us, knows us, and loves us still. God creates us, challenges us, recreates us – always in love. Psalm 139 comforts us and unsettles us, and asks: Do we really want to be known?由Rev. Scott Clark
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The Psalms speak to our public life, singing the world God wants. God insists that public power be used for the well-being of the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In the Psalms, we sing our life to God, and God sings our life with us – every distress on the way to deliverance, every lament into the wide expanse of liberation, every lonesome groan into singing together the songs we know by heart.由Rev. Scott Clark
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In psalms of liberation, we remember, hope, and move forward into God’s ongoing, liberating work in the world. As we join that work, what do those psalms require of us? What does Juneteenth require of us?由Rev. Scott Clark
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