First Parish Brunswick: Recent Episodes
First Parish Church Brunswick
The final sermon in our series on Artifical Intellegene dives into the story of the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1-9
Acts 17:22-28 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, ‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we too are his offspring.”
How can our theological understanding of freedom in Christ inform our thinking about what 'freedom' means in our civic conversations? (Sermon on Galatians 5)
video: https://www.firstparish.net/sermon/called-to-freedom/
Church member David Spurr steps into the pulpit to share his reflections on the nature of sacred places, and our sanctuary.
John is back from parental leave and ready to share why he and Molli named their son Ezra.
Scriputre: Ezra 1:1-11
The road to Emmaus, and the road from sorrow to hope, and the friends we need along the way.
"A shoot will grow up from the stump of Jesse; a branch will sprout from his roots."
- Isaiah 11:1
John 14:1-14
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