Greetings Families! Our lesson today is about Paul’s (also known as Saul) encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. Paul is changed, or transformed, by this experience. Transformation means that something or someone completely changes and becomes a new thing. All around us during the spring, we see transformations...
Sunday, May 17 LivingRoom Lesson Read Philippians 2:19-4:1 In 2:19-24, Paul seems anxious to get news about his friends, frustrated by people around him who are self-serving, and joyful that Epaphroditus has survived a major illness. Life is complicated and many-layered. Do you think it is possible to be anxious/worried and joyful...
Live Like That Dear FPC Youth, I was getting ready one morning earlier this week and listening to some music on Alexa. I’m sure many of you have some sort of smart speaker in your home – I like to joke that we got ours because another female whose name...
Greetings Families! Wow! I can’t believe we are about to start the last week of school. What an unpredicted turn this school year has taken! Our family is happy to have a break, but we are already looking forward to returning to school in August! We miss our friends and...
Sunday, May 10 LivingRoom Lesson In describing her work on 1 Peter and the notion of being “resident aliens” in society (so as Christians we should not feel quite so at home in the normal values and ways of the world), Janette describes the experience of Asian Americans in the midst of the...
Honk! Honk! So, how many of you saw the title of this week’s LivingRoom lesson and thought – okay, this is going to be about traffic! That would be a good guess, although there’s been a lot less of that to worry about these days with the Shelter-in-Place and social...
Dear FPC Families, Greetings and Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms, Grandmoms, Aunties, and Like-a-Moms out there! I hope you enjoy spending the day with family, and of course, spoiling the special ladies in your family just a bit. Today’s lesson is about Peter and John and the focus...
Sunday, May 3 LivingRoom Lesson Eric says we never read the Bible alone. Even if we are sitting alone “sheltering in place”, we still approach and interpret scripture with other voices in our head – voices that reflect our faith community, the religious views that our parents and childhood church held, our race, gender,...
Dear FPC Families, Happy May! I hope that you are all doing well. I know we all continue to find ourselves in the midst of uncertainty. One day the news about Covid-19 seems to be all negative, but another day the outlook seems more hopeful. It’s hard to know whom...
Dear FPC Youth, I can’t believe we are in week 7 of LivingRoom Lessons! I hope you are enjoying the lessons, and I would love your suggestions of any future topics you’d like me to discuss. This week’s children’s LivingRoom Lesson is on Doubting Thomas, so I thought we’d explore...
