First Presbyterian Church Of San Anselmo

Lesson: Lesson: John 4:1-30. "May we be such witnesses; may that living water bubble up and pour out through our saturated spirits, so that everyone we come in contact with can’t help but get soaking wet as well."

Lessons: Joel 2:1-2, 12-13; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21. "Break open your hearts to each other, to the stranger, to the suffering in God’s world, to the healing God offers, to hope and possibility, and especially, to the hope of God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven."

Lesson: Matthew 5:38-48. "Loving the way God loves might sound unrealistic, but there is no shortage of real life stories of people who have been able to love their enemies in creative and constructive ways, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King to Nelson Mandela to combatants in armed conflict to the victims of racism and oppression to Anne Lamott to ordinary folks, like you and me.

Lessons: Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Matthew 5:21-37. "May God guide each of us in doing the right thing, the holy thing, the Christ-like thing, for the people who need it most. May God help us to choose life."

Lesson: Matthew 5:13-16. "May we continue to bring out the God-colors in the world around us. May we continue to challenge each other and hold each other up in love, for it is together that we are the light of the world."

Lesson: Micah 6:1-8. "We celebrate that we rely not only on each other, but on God, whom we meet in worship but also in the world. We celebrate that we are a community that remembers that a small group of people who gather to break bread together in Jesus’ name can change the world."

Lesson: Matthew 4:12-24. "But perhaps this is a place where relationships are such that we can speak up, disagree, and still love each other. That, my friends, is a taste of the kingdom, and I am deeply grateful for it."

Lessons: Isaiah 42:1-9; Matthew 3:13-17. “This is my child, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.”[11] This is already true for each of us; for everyone. May we believe it, and live into it."

Lesson: Psalm 31:1-22.

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Lesson: Matthew 1: 18-25. "We can trust that God is with us. We can trust that God comes through ordinary, mixed-up people in order to save ordinary, mixed-up people, and that God comes through a birth like all the millions of other births in the world to show us that when we act with forgiveness and hope and trust, well then, the world changes."

Lessons: Isaiah 35:1-10; Matthew 11:2-11. "In Jesus' footsteps, with the power of the Holy Spirit, we are artisans of the new creation."

Lesson: Luke 1:46-55. "The people of God sing. In the Old and New Testaments, people sing in joy and sorrow, praise and lament. Music is God’s gift to us and in our congregation, we have a long history of appreciating the way music can stir us in a way words alone cannot."

Lessons: Ps 46:10, Isaiah 2:1-5 . "Advent is about hope. And, waiting. And, knowing God’s love is with and around us. We live into Isaiah’s dream and become part of the peace process as we take time for silence and stillness. We allow God’s refining fire, God’s light, to burn brightly in our hearts and in our lives."

Lesson: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Luke 12:34. " I am passionate about the way we function as a true community center, housing a preschool, a center for adults with special needs, AA, a Wade Thomas Spanish class, Qi Gong, a fitness class, a martial arts group, the barbershop singers, Marin Girls’ Chorus, and on and on." ... "I am passionate about us, a community that includes in this party the vulnerable and anyone and everyone who will join in the journey, and that gives back to God with so much joy and thanksgiving."

Lesson: Isaiah 65:17-25. "Isaiah’s message from God is stunning in its simplicity and ability to transcend the ages. God desires us to be fulfilled: So, be glad and rejoice forever in what I (God) am creating."

Lesson: Luke 20:27-38. "But together, we can help each other catch the vision of that new life and new world that Jesus described, a life of inclusion and justice and freedom and shalom, and love. Together, working toward that vision, we practice resurrection. Together, we serve. May it continue to be so for at least another 116 years."

Lesson: Lesson: Luke 19:1-10. "Thanks be to God that Jesus follows us home. And thanks be to God for the saints of San Anselmo."'

Lesson: Psalm 65. "But what I will say is that in our tradition, our giving is the awe-filled and grateful response to the gifts from God our Creator, the Source of all that we are and all that we have, and an important way we partner with God in reforming God’s creation.

Royce Truex: "My great desire and hope is that what we do in this congregation proves that we all believe those things, that anyone looking at us will know that we treat everyone as a child of God, love the entire creation, are loyal to Jesus’ teachings, and, as members of the body of Christ, doing our best to be partners with God, doing God’s work in the world."