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Sunday, September 8th, 2024 "Original Words: Checed"

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Watch the Sermon Here First United Presbyterian Church “Original Words: Checed” Rev. Amy Morgan September 8, 2024 Psalm 136:1-9, 23-26   One: Give thanks to GOD, for GOD is good,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever. One: Give thanks to the God of gods,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever. One: Give thanks to the Ruler of rulers,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever. One: Who only does great wonders,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever; One: Who by wisdom made the heavens,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever; One: Who spread out the earth upon the waters,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever; One: Who created great lights,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever; One: The sun to rule the day,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever; One: The moon and the stars to govern the night,  Many: for GOD’s steadfast love endures for ever. One: Who remembered us in our low estate,  Many: for GOD’s steadf
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Sunday, August 11, 2024: "Sacred Places: Food for the Journey"

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 Watch the Sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “Sacred Places: Food for the Journey” Rev. Amy Morgan August 11, 2024 1 Kings 19:4-8 Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” 5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” 6 He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. He ate and drank and lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.” 8 He got up and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. John 6:35--51 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be th
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Sunday, June 16th: "Scared Places, Sacred Spaces - Bristol, Vermont"

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Watch the Sermon here Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces - Bristol, Vermont By Jeannie Stuntz 6/16/2024 Matthew 1:1 is the first verse in the New Testament: “A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham.” That is one quick genealogy! Between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the authors learned how to EDIT! OK, in chapter 1 of Matthew, they do list 14 generations between Abraham and David, but in 6 short verses; and 14 generations from David to Babylon in 5 short verses; and 14 generations from the exile to Jesus in another 5 short verses. Forty-two generations between Abraham and Jesus in less than one column. The Old Testament takes over two hundred pages and they don’t ever get to Jesus, except in the books of the prophets, like Isaiah. Not that I’m recommending you skip the genealogy stuff, I’m just saying, the summary in Matthew is a pretty good “Big Picture” substitute. Today, I’m talking about a thread of my genealogy. I was curious about the “
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