Sunday Service

Date: March 5th, 2023

Matt. 22:34-40 & 2 Cor. 5:11-15

Series Archive

A place to love to learn and learn to love

Last week, while moving my son into college, the chaplain described Grove City College as a place “to love to learn and learn to love.” That line really grabbed me because that is the kind of place I want First Pres to be.  I want us to be a place where people who...

Know Jesus, Grow in faith, go and tell

We want to know God’s word. We want to grow in faith. But there’s a purpose behind it: to go and tell others about the Good News. We’re rolling out and starting up a bunch of ways for you to know the Word and grow, and we hope you’ll also use the opportunity to go and...

Changing perspectives on God’s global work

First Pres recently hosted Perspectives, which brought together Christ-followers from a number of local churches to learn about what God is doing around the world and how we can join that work. We asked one of the participants, Laura Atkins, about the experience. What...

Inspiring biographies to help us persevere in faith

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of...

How a First Pres couple is serving Cubans

Covenant Partners Patrick and Amy Werner continue their work serving the people of Cuba, with their latest trip focusing on helping a cancer ministry and encouraging pastors. Here are some highlights of what they did while in Cuba. (They plan to share more details at...

Expressing your faith: 3 easy ways to talk about God every day

One of the great lies is that a personal faith needs to be a private faith. But that’s not true. A personal faith should be very expressed. If you call Jesus, Lord, you know what he commanded you to do? Talk about him everywhere, all the time and all over the place....

6 new additions to our resource library

We've added some new additions to the church library. Go check them out! Books for Adults Screen Kids by Gary Chapman & Arlene Pellicane. "Today, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside or interacting with family. Screen...

Why are people leaving churches in America?

The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer noted that whenever you're lonely, there's always a church. There's always a church. You can find it just about any place. But not everybody wants to take advantage of that, do they? Why not? I mean, there's so much access. It's so...