2025 TEACHING ARCHIVE - PFC

2025 TEACHING ARCHIVE

1/1/2025

January 5 | Fresh Start: Living in Christ's Newness | Renewed in Christ

January 12 | Fresh Start: Living in Christ's Newness | Recentered on Christ's Purposes

January 19 | Fresh Start: Living In Christ's Newness | Revived for the Mission

Origins
In comic books a character's "origin story" sets up and comes to add definition to a character's journey. For us who see the Bible as pointing to the God revealed in the person of Jesus Christ, the Bible provides a perspective on the origin story of humanity. Over the course of 6 weeks, we are diving into the beginning of Genesis to gain some clarity on the shape and contour of the biblical origin stories. We will work through how: when God looks at the world he made, he declares it good. He installs humans as his partners in ruling creation, but the humans choose to do what is good in their own eyes, leading ultimately to death. In the first eleven chapters of the Bible we will see God's goodness and humanity's repeated rebellions, which introduce violence, disorder, and the founding of Babylon. It's these first chapters that set the plot in motion for God to respond to human evil with his redemptive plan.

January 26 | Origins | Genesis 1 & 2: In the beginning...

February 2 | Origins | Genesis 3 : The Great Rebellion

February 9 | Origins | Genesis 4 : Sin Ripples Out

February 23 | Origins | Genesis 6-9: The Great Deluge

March 2 | Origins | Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel

Lent 2025

March 9 | The Old Rugged Cross: with John Sutherland

March 16 | Matthew 20:1-16 - The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

March 23 | Luke 15 - Parables of Things Lost

March 30 | Luke 10:25-37 - The Parable of the Good Samaritan

April 6 | Matthew 13:24-43 - The Parables of the Kingdom

April 13 | Matthew 25:1-13 - The Parable of the Ten Virgins

April 20 | PFC Easter 2025: Mary's Journal

We Believe: Foundations of Faith
In a world that sometimes seems to be coming apart at the seams, the biblical call to unity is stirring and striking. Join us as we work through a look at the Apostle's Creed, a historic point of unity for many streams of the Christian church. The invitation is to consider and embrace the essential points of Christian doctrine articulated by the Creed.

"In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity"

April 27 | We Believe: Foundations of Faith | An Introduction to the Apostle's Creed

May 4 | We Believe: Foundations of Faith | "In God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth"

May 11 | Mother's Day 2025 | Faith and Mothering; An Interview with Vanessa Atkinson

May 18 | We Believe: Foundations of Faith | "And in Jesus Christ..." Part 1

May 25 | We Believe: Foundations of Faith | "And in Jesus Christ..." Part 2

June 1 | We Believe: Foundations of Faith | "In the Holy Spirit..."

June 8 | We Believe: Foundations of Faith | From Confession to Wonder

SPICES 2025
As a historically Quaker congregation, we respect and seek to hold open-palmed the historic Quaker distinctives of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Stewardship. Over several weeks we dig into each of these distinctives, reflecting on how they invite us into a faithful pursuit of Christ for today.

July 6 | SPICES 2025: Simplicity

July 13 | SPICES 2025: Peace

July 20 | SPICES 2025: Integrity

July 27 | SPICES 2025: Community

August 3 | SPICES 2025: Equality

August 10 | SPICES 2025: Stewardship

PFC | MISSION, VISION and VALUES
As we seek to be faithful where we have been planted it can be important to reflect on the unique ways that God is developing our church family. It can be helpful to reflect on some of what makes us unique as a church community so that we can continue living into who God is making us to be.

August 17 | PFC Mission

August 24 | PFC Vision

August 31 | PFC Values

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