Category: First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen
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“Finding Jesus for the First Time”
Theme: We find our peace in Jesus, and a realization that it was never Jesus who was lost in the first place. Jesus waits for us to find our way home. Luke 2:41-52 (NRSV): Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old,…
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“Revelation”
Theme: God reveals God Self to us through Jesus Christ: love enfleshed – our saving grace, our God of paradoxical humility, who comes to us as a new-born baby, with love. Luke 2:1-20 (NRSV): In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first…
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“What Should We Do?”
Theme: Living into God’s promise of salvation as Christians is not completed with our baptism, but rather has just begun there. We are called to live a life of charity and compassion for others, to share forgiveness and love in ways made possible only by the power of the Holy Spirit and the intercession of…
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“Prophetic Imagination”
Theme: In our rush to prepare for the Christ’s coming, we sometimes forget that our Lord Jesus is already with us. Luke 3:1-6 (NRSV): In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region…
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“Getting Ready for God”
Theme: We wait for the Lord filled with hope – a hope that brings love and faith to maturity – something to live for, and work for, and build upon – for a better tomorrow, a life eternal, and meaningful today. 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 (NRSV): How can we thank God enough for you in return…
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“Making All Things New”
Theme: We believe as Christians that we are headed somewhere, in life and in death, and in life after death: back to God – a future that must happen, because Christ has already come to set the trajectory of our future salvation once and for all. Revelation 21:1-6a (NRSV): Then I saw a new heaven…
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“The Ministry of Angels – Our Life of Faith”
Theme: In faith we share the Good News of Jesus Christ through good works, but we are also called to listen for the messengers of God, the angels in our midst, and to serve as God’s angels even today. Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 (NRSV): Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,…
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“God’s Glimmer in Gold – the Promise of Faith”
Theme: God loves us with an all-consuming fire, refining and sanctifying us every day of our lives through the intercession of Jesus Christ and the persistence of our faith, leading to God’s embrace. Hebrews 12:18-29 (NRSV): You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a…
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“The Hall of Heroes – the Challenge of Faith”
Theme: The faith journey is long and exhausting – a lifelong race – we look to Jesus Christ for our guidance and to each other for our strength to carry us home. Hebrews 11:29-12-2 (NRSV): By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted…
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“Faith to Move Forward”
Theme: Faith is the confidence that Jesus Christ leads us forward through the darkest days and the deepest wilderness to the place, and the unique person, God call us to be. Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 (NRSV): Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors…
Ellen Clark Clemot 