First Presbyterian Church Of San Anselmo

Lessons: Luke 17:11-19; Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7. “Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future. Faith is the ability to dance to that music now.”

Lesson: Psalm 37:1-6; Luke 17:5-10. "You do not get more faith by closing your eyes, trying really hard to feel or to believe something, or by clicking the heels of your ruby slippers together. More faith comes through faithful living. You can do it. We can help. And your faith will be increased, not as a personal achievement, but as a gift of God.

Lesson: Jeremiah 32:1-15. "There's an old Greek proverb which says that a society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. I believe we can say the same thing about a great church.Trusting that God owns our tomorrow, may we, the church of Jesus Christ, have the courage and strength and faith to make that investment."

Lesson: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1. " I believe if we can cry together, our situation will change. Only to the extent that we remember that what we do to others is what we do to ourselves will we together be well again. Only then is there a balm in Gilead."

Lesson: Luke 15:1-10 "God loves ALL the sheep, ALL the coins, ALL the apartment seekers and landlords, children and parents, religious leaders and many more who make up our world and our lives. They are, we are, all precious in God’s sight. May we rejoice as a community of connected, messy, lost and found people, because we are so loved, and so precious in God’s sight."

Lesson: Jeremiah 18:1-4. "One place remains our home, whatever changes the culture blows our way: The love of God in Christ that continues to rework us, to form us into a people at one with God, with God's earth, and with one another."

Lesson Note: On the Sunday before Labor Day we celebrate Christian Vocation Sunday by hearing from three church members, who talk about how they live out their Christian faith on the job.

Lesson: Luke 13:10.17. "A modern day sabbatical honors this reality: a person’s productive capacity – our brains, our hearts – will be more productive and life giving if we get a break from the routine every now and then."

Lesson: Exodus 3:7-14 "God came to Moses, a seemingly insignificant shepherd, and asked him to take a risk for the good of all. When I AM calls...I hope we are listening. I am, we are God's children."

Lesson: Luke 12:32-40

Lesson: Luke 12:13-21. "But for those who choose life and sharing, the blessed saints are accorded a place in the immortal memory and future home of the Living God."

Lesson: Luke 11:5-13. "God will keep asking, keep searching, and keep knocking. It is up to us to open that door, it is up to us to say yes."

Lessons: Isaiah 42:1-9, Luke 10:38-42. "...there is need of only one thing: Freedom!"

Lesson: Luke 10:29-37

Lesson: Psalm 5, 1 Kings 21:1–20a. "May the Lord of resurrecting life triumph over dead injustice."

Lesson: Luke 8:26-39 (notes on text). "May we, when we meet change in one another, and within groups, at home, at church, at school, at work, and in our country, may we all be open to God’s presence and let go of the chains that keep us from recognizing healing in our midst."

Lesson: John 14:6; 8:31-32

Lesson: Luke 7:1-10. "Whether we are called to serve as students, teachers, deacons, elders or none of the above for now, we are invited to view the world as Jesus might: with an open invitation to respond to God’s love in the world."

Lesson: Ecclesiastes 3: 1 -13 "And...hope is what our Christian faith is all about. Our faith is not only having hope that not only God comforts us through the seasons we experience in our lives."

Acts 2, contemporized.