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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…

First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo


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    "What Then Shall We Do?" -- Isaiah 61:1-4; Luke 3:10-14 (5th Sunday of Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 22:16


     In bewildering times, empowered by the Spirit, “what we can do” is the steady work that flows out of our baptism. 

    Who Then Are We? -- Acts 11:1-18 (4th Sunday of Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 17:23


    In baptism, we enact what has always been true: God loves and welcomes everyone.

    Unshrouded Hearts -- Isaiah 25:6-9; Luke 24:14-39 (Rev. Dvera Hadden, preaching; 3rd Sunday in Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 18:31


    Not the Same Old Story -- Luke 23:55-24:12 (Easter Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 20:07


    With the women at the empty tomb, we proclaim this Resurrection truth: Everything that lies ahead is life.

    Turning Toward the Cross -- Luke 19:28-40, 23:26-45 (Palm/Passion Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 21:03


    On Palm Sunday, as we turn toward the cross, Jesus joins us in the deep suffering of the world, with tender mercy there, too.

    Turning Toward Tender Mercy -- John 12:1-11 (5th Sunday in Lent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 24:18


    As Mary anoints Jesus, they embody for us a world based on sharing, reciprocity, and tender mercy.

    "They Not Like Us" -- Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 (4th Sunday of Lent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 25:37


    We consider the call of the Parable of the Lost Son, with Rev. Floyd Thompkins preaching (Pastor, St Andrew Presbyterian Church, Marin City)

    Turning Toward Our Fears -- Genesis 32:6-8, 22-32 (3rd Sunday in Lent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 24:47


    In our fear, God comes to us with the gifts of presence and possibility for a future in which we are not alone.

    Too Much Turning -- Psalm 22 (2nd Sunday of Lent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 24:01


    Our world these days can feel utterly disorienting. As we cry out in lament, we find God not far off, but near... in the midst of the suffering, joining our lament, and calling us into life. Psalm 22 invites us to lament (loudly); to listen for lament (the suffering of the world); and to draw near (to God and to each other).

    Turning From, Turning Toward -- Luke 4:1-13 (1st Sunday in Lent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 22:36


    In his testing in the wilderness, Jesus turns from evil and turns toward the Way that will lead to the cross – a way that leads us to life.

    Astounded at the Greatness of God -- Luke 9:28-43 (Transfiguration Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 19:09 Transcription Available


    The glory of God in Jesus comes to life on the mountain top, and in everyday acts of healing, and in us.

    Love Everyone (No Exceptions) -- Luke 6:27-38 (7th Sunday of Epiphany)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 30:43


    In a world fueled by enmity and retribution, Jesus commands love: Love God. Love others. Love yourself. Love your enemy. Love everyone. No exceptions.

    "Like a tree planted by water" - Jeremiah 17:5-10; 1 Cor. 15:12-20 (6th Sunday of Epiphany)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 21:29


    Humble and Bold -- 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 4:21-30 (5th Sunday of Epiphany)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 22:21


    In these days of turmoil, God's grace meets us where we are and empowers us to be both humble and bold, in the name of Jesus.

    All the Boring Virtues -- 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (4th Sunday of Epiphany)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 21:40


    The Body of Christ lives out love for the well-being of all people. It's the love we see in Jesus Christ – “the kind of love that longs for the well-being of the beloved.” It's a love that never forgets the vulnerable. It's a love that always seeks the common good. 

    Today -- Luke 4:14-21 (3rd Sunday of Epiphany; Rev. Eric Beene preaching)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 18:19


    Grace Gifts & Working Papers -- 1 Corinthians 12:1-13, 27 (2nd Sunday of Epiphany)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 24:20


    Grounded in Christ, empowered by the Spirit, we engage the work that is ours to do in the world. The Spirit gifts each of us with particular gifts that together we embody for the common good.

    Whose We Are -- Luke 3:10-17, 21-22 (1st Sunday After Epiphany)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 20:51


    In the waters of baptism, we find our identity with and in Christ, in a community of mutuality and sharing. In a tumultuous world, we ground ourselves there.

    New Life, New Day, New Year -- Jeremiah 31:7-14 (2nd Sunday of Christmas)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 23:38


    The prophets look to what God is doing in the world: Always, God is bringing new life for a new day. Let's begin every day there.

    On the Cusp -- Titus 3:4-7;Luke 2:41-52 (Rev. Dvera Hadden, preaching; First Sunday of Christmas)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 22:26


    "And the whole world give back the song" -- Luke 2:8-20 (4th Sunday of Advent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 22:07 Transcription Available


    In the ache of our world, God enters into the lowest places, comes alongside the most vulnerable, and makes God's home there.

    "O you, beneath life's crushing load" -- Luke 1:26-38, 46-55 (2nd Sunday in Advent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 19:19


    With the angel, Mary proclaims that God is turning the world rightside up.With Mary, will you say “yes” to being turned rightside up?

    "O, hush the noise and cease the strife" -- Luke 1:8-25, 57-58, 67-80 (1st Sunday of Advent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 22:49


    In the clamor of the world, God gives us a holy hush – quiet to listen and watch for God's tender mercy setting the whole world free.

    A Baseline of Gratitude -- Philippians 4:4-9 (Thanksgiving Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 19:38


    When we choose to live lives of gratitude, generosity, and sharing, it is a radical, subversive act. We say “no” to the dominant narrative of scarcity, and “yes” to sharing a world full of God's abundance.

    Longing for Enough -- Exodus 16:1-5, 13-23 (Rev. Dvera Hadden, preaching; 26th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 22:20


    Unshakeoffable -- Ruth 1:1-18 (25th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 25:02


    In a world stripped bare, God's unshakeoffable lovingkindess grounds us, sustains us, and moves us forward.

    Saints Seen and Unseen -- Hebrews 11 (All Saints' Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 21:37


    On 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.

    They Persisted - Mark 10:46-52 (Rev. Beverly Brewster, preaching; 23rd Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 21:52


    You Do Not Know What You Are Asking - Mark 10:35-45 (Rev. Eric Beene, preaching; 22nd Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 19:34


    Rubble -- Ezra 3:1-3, 8-13 (21st Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 23:20


    Over 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.

    "The Welcome Table" -- Mark 6:30-44 (World Communion Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 22:36


    At 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.”

    Finding Our Way Home Together -- Mark 6:6-13 (Homecoming Sunday; 17th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 17:06 Transcription Available


    Jesus 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.

    Mind Blowing, Heart Opening Encounters -- Mark 7:24-37 (16th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 18:03


    In 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.

    Sowers Gonna Sow -- Mark 4:1-9 (15th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 16:16 Transcription Available


    A sower went out to sow: In the work we do, the life of Christ comes alive in us.

    Don't Go to Court -- Matthew 18:15-22 (14th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 22:20 Transcription Available


    In 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.

    "The Quality of Mercy" -- Genesis 45:1-15 (13th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 22:55


    Extending 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.

    Rev. Scott Quinn, preaching -- Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 (12th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 21:12


    When God Is in the Dock -- Job 23 & 38 (11th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 21:37 Transcription Available


    We 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. 

    When God Brings the Charges -- Isaiah 1:2-3, 12-30 & Isaiah 5 (10th Sunday after Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 19:59


    In 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.

    The Heart of Wisdom -- 1 Kings 3 (9th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 24:14


    God'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.

    "What Is Truth?" -- John 18:28-40 (8th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 21:22


    We 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.

    Who's in Charge Here? -- Philippians 2:1-12 (7th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 17:50


    God is sovereign by sharing God's own freedom with us, urging us to live out the self-giving love of Christ.

    Everyone Belongs -- Ephesians 2:11-22 (6th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2024 21:34


    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.

    Kindred Spirits & Bosom Friends -- 1 Samuel 18:1-8, 20:1-22 (5th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 22:51


    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 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. 

    "Created Equal" -- 1 Samuel 15:35-16:13 (4th Sunday After Pentecost)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 25:13


    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. 

    Presence & Peace -- Matthew 28:16-20; Philippians 4:4-7 (2nd Sunday After Pentecost; Rev. Bev Brewster, preaching)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 15:59


    “It Will Not Be Over Until We Talk” --- Luke 7:1-10 (Trinity Sunday; Nick Morris, preaching)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 23:32


    A Tale of Wind and Flame -- Acts 2:1-21 (Pentecost Sunday)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 16:03


    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 of power-over, a lifting up of all we are, and a radiating out so that no one is left out.

    "And the Chains Fell Off" -- Acts 12:1-10, 18-21 (7th Sunday of Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 21:41


    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.

    No Separation, Part 2 -- Acts 10 (6th Sunday of Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 18:01


    Radiating out with God's expansive embrace, the Way of Resurrection unfolds in the complexity of human relationship – in the complexity of community.

    No Separation -- Acts 8: 26-39 (5th Sunday of Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 23:15


    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.

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