In a world that would tear them apart, Jonathan and David choose a better way. Friendship is a chosen relationship with another person in which we come to agree to see and be seen by the other; to act for the other’s good; to be present with each other in challenge and struggle; and to be a loving place to which we can always return. In a world tha…

Juneteenth calls us to remember and celebrate freedom and liberation, but also insists that we remember slavery and its continuing impact on our world today. God creates us all equally human, and insists that we work for the freedom and equality of all.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

توسط Rev. Beverly Brewster, Preaching

توسط Nick Morris, Preaching

Pentecost is a tale of wind and flame that becomes flesh and bone before our very eyes and ears – one that we can touch and taste and experience in our very bodies. While the day of Pentecost begins in the loneliness of loss and separation, in its mighty wind and crown of flame, we see connection – God and us – us and us. No separation – a leveling…

The Way of Resurrection is “enfleshed freedom” – an end to every separation and the freedom of every body. By the power of the Spirit, the Way of Resurrection moves us ever and always into more healing, more freedom, more life.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Radiating out with God’s expansive embrace, the Way of Resurrection unfolds in the complexity of human relationship – in the complexity of community.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In the Way of Resurrection, the Spirit radiates out in ever-expanding circles of embrace. In the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch, we see that God welcomes everyone all the way in.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

The "Way of Resurrection" is embodied in us. In the Body of the Risen Christ, "Stretch out your hand to heal and bring to life signs and wonders in the name of Jesus."توسط First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo

We are witnesses to the Resurrection in what we have seen and heard, and in the lives we live.توسط Rev. Eric Beene

The Good News of Easter Morning is a Word of life, love, and abounding grace.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

As the Hosannas! of Palm Sunday fade, and as the NOs of Holy Week begin to build, Jesus continues to say YES.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus is the Christ we follow into the suffering of the world, who raises us up into life.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Out of our fear, Jesus calls us to take courage, trust, and walk out into the storm – like Jesus, with Jesus – to sink and rise up again.توسط First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo

Forgiveness can come to life in many forms. Jesus encourages us that we can find (and extend) forgiveness in more ways than we think.توسط Rev. Marissa Danney, preaching

Jesus seeks out and calls Peter (and us) into relationship - into community that embodies good news for the poor, healing for every hurt, and freedom from every oppression.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In experiences that are beyond us, God is always bigger, always stronger, always moving the world toward justice, healing, and peace.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Embodying good news, Jesus heals, and takes on the powers, and takes a breath, and keeps on moving.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

God is always calling us, always inviting us to pay attention, listen, and live.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

What glad news of justice do you bring to the world?توسط Rev. Dvera Hadden

On the wilderness road to freedom, God supports and sustains the weary. God encourages us to join the hard work of freedom with humility and mutuality, in ways that also help create some rest for the weary.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus interrupts a world already in progress, and turns power on its head.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Simeon and Anna hold the Christ child and proclaim: This is God’s saving help come yet again, once for all – light and liberation for all people.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

With folks all around the world, today is the day we tell the story: In the birth of the Christ, the fresh presence of God comes to life in the fullness of humanity.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Joy is “the fresh presence of God... the fresh action of God,” rising up from the steady and sure saving action of God across all time. Joy is God’s forever longing for human flourishing. In this sermon, we consider “joy because” of the goodness we experience in life, “joy notwithstanding” the challenges and sorrow of life, and “joy against” everyt…

In a hurting world, Jesus invites us to keep watch for the Advent of God in every moment, as together we make the long journey toward joy.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Listen in as Rev. Dr. Janie Spahr preaches at First Pres San Anselmo.توسط Rev. Dr. Jane Spahr

Our experience of grace and gratitude is not in any way bound or determined or limited by circumstance. In Jesus Christ, God’s grace reaches us and embraces us even in the mire and the muck.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

God’s New Creation comes to life, not just in the words we say and sing on Sunday, but in the life we live on Tuesday.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

God embodies God’s love for the world in the communion of the saints, all of us embraced, drawn together in one Body. All Saints Day gives us a moment to look back in gratitude, forward in hope, and present in the intention to live so that everyone can be free.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

There is a place for you here if you come with questions- about Scripture, about community, about how to live well in the world. There is a place for you here to learn and grow through questions.توسط Rev. Dvera Hadden

"In Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” Whoever you are, wherever you are, in the Body of Christ, there is a place for you... here.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In Christ, creation groans in suffering and in hope. In the body of Christ, climate collapse invites us into a practice of reverence, relinquishment, reconciliation, restoration, resilience, and resistance. The sermon included a presentation of Peter Anderson's photos from Standing Rock, which you can see and hear on the worship video (available on…

In 2023, as we think of the Earth as our home, we live somewhere between despair and hope. Even as we are honest about the severity of climate disruption, the place for us here is always our place in the Body of Christ – an integrated, interconnected part of all creation – the New Creation – groaning as we birth together something new.…

As we accompany and extend hospitality to each other, God creates a world of welcome, where everyone is seen as fully human and everyone has enough.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In a world of people on the move, God insists that we love and shelter the stranger. Throughout history and around the world today, God accompanies us as we accompany each other.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In the Body of Christ, love comes to life – as we love with integrity, share in the deep need of the world, and practice hospitality.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus invites us in to work healing and feeding, bringing to life a world of possibility. As Jesus feeds the multitude, Jesus brings the disciples to work, invites them into the building of a brave new world, and says to them: “All this healing, all this feeding, all this life –this is the work that is ours to do together.”…

The Psalms take us on a journey through the whole of life – and what we find – again and again – everywhere we look – is the goodness of God. The invitation that the Psalms extend is this: Like a tree planted by streams of water, sink your roots deep, and live.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

God – in God’s goodness and steadfast love – stands with the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed, in the place of deepest need. In our anger, God invites us to stand there too. The imprecatory psalms point us to the deep pain in the world; they point us to the peril of our propensity for violence; and they point us – through all that – to seek …

توسط Rev. Marissa Danney

From the cross, Jesus cries out in the lament of the psalms, and brings us into a new song for a new creation and a brave new world.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

When we pray out of our pain, God is listening, and God is for us. In the psalms of lament, we pray in response to the God we have come to know – to the God who has loved us first – and we ask for help.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

توسط Rev. Paul Gaffney

We praise to name and acknowledge God’s goodness in the world, more powerful than anything that does us harm. “We praise God in order to see the world as God does,” and then to say “Yes!” to helping God make it so.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

God searches us, knows us, and loves us still. God creates us, challenges us, recreates us – always in love. Psalm 139 comforts us and unsettles us, and asks: Do we really want to be known?توسط Rev. Scott Clark

The Psalms speak to our public life, singing the world God wants. God insists that public power be used for the well-being of the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In the Psalms, we sing our life to God, and God sings our life with us – every distress on the way to deliverance, every lament into the wide expanse of liberation, every lonesome groan into singing together the songs we know by heart.توسط Rev. Scott Clark

In psalms of liberation, we remember, hope, and move forward into God’s ongoing, liberating work in the world. As we join that work, what do those psalms require of us? What does Juneteenth require of us?توسط Rev. Scott Clark

Pentecost opens up a world of infinite possibility – a world whose possibilities are limited only by the bounds of God’s love and power and imagination. With the gift of the Spirit, this becomes clear: What God has been doing in Christ – God is now doing in us.توسط Rev. Scott Clark