Category: Sermons
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4/15/18 – Welcome Guest Speaker Rev. Jamie Stanley!
This Sunday we get the privilege to hear a message from Rev. Jamie Stanley about the ministry of Southwest Pregnancy Services and the importance of upholding the sanctity of human life. Southwest Pregnancy Services envisions a community where all recognize that every human life is sacred because it is made in the image of God;…
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4/8/18 – Beware of Anti-Supernatural Christianity
Having just experienced Holy Week and now in the first week after the Resurrection, have you considered how extraordinary Jesus’ raising from the dead was, after the lapse of three days since his crucifixion? Once, I saw a huge painting of someone’s imagining of the resurrection at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los…
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4/1/18 – EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE, 7 a.m., EASTER WORSHIP SERVICE 10:30
Rise up early in the morning and join us just as you are for Sunrise Worship on the Patio. Jason Cordova sings “Jesus I Believe.” Ross Shipman & Jeff Thorpe preach. Enjoy breakfast afterward in the Fellowship Hall. The Children will hunt for Easter eggs at 9:15. To prepare for the early service, READ John…
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3/18/18 – The Food that Endures Forever
What a wonderful gift to receive a surprise celebration for reaching my tenth anniversary with FPCD! What a surprise when former Youth Pastor Steve Netniss walked in to preach and party with us after the service! Thank you for the wonderful reception, cards, and gifts. FPCD has been a fabulous church of willing disciples who…
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3/11/18 – Food that Endures Forever
We all have things we turn to that give us comfort. Sometimes those things are good and healthy, and other times . . . well, maybe not so much! Jesus noticed that about people when he walked the earth. He often addressed those things. He asks pressing questions. Sometimes he went straight for the heart.…
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3/4/18 – Finding Jesus . . . or, Did Jesus Find You?
Have you ever had an appointment to meet someone but when you get there you cannot find them? You search and search, and finally sit down to wait. You have done all you can. Then suddenly the person finds you! How relieving to know that it wasn’t all on your back. A man had a…
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2/25/18 – The Power to be a Witness
This Sunday, February 25, join us for Sunday School for all ages at 9:15 AM followed by worship at 10:30. We will have a contemporary worship service this Sunday led by our youth, with a dramatic reading “The Woman’s View” performed by Angel Kezar and a message called “The Power to be a Witness” by…
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2/18/18 – Jesus Explains the Meaning of Born Again
The phrase “born again” may be familiar to you, especially those of you who remember the 1970s. It is quite interesting to look the phrase up on Dictionary.com. There it is described as someone who has “committed or recommitted to religious faith through an intensely religious experience.” Jesus describes it as a radical birth, not…
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2/11/18 – Jesus Saves the Celebration!
How often do you celebrate something? A birthday? Most likely! A wedding? Why, yes! The tradition has gone on for thousands of years. This week at First Presbyterian, the worship service will be a celebration. The entire service is built around testimonies of people who have been inspired to do ministries and why. We are…
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2/4/18 – Do You Want to See Great Things?
What if a man came up to you and said, “I see in you a man (or woman) in whom there is no hypocrisy!” That would feel sort of good, wouldn’t it? Would you think to yourself, well, that’s a smart man! Such a greeting might initiate a conversation. The one to whom such words…