by FirstPresValdosta | Jan 2, 2024 | Sermons
December 24, 2023 Christmas Eve 5:30 p.m. Service Luke 2:1-14 and Luke 2:15-20 The Christmas Blessing (MILLER/ROUTSONG FAMILIES) It is such a joy that all of you celebrate with each other and your families and friends at this special time of...
by FirstPresValdosta | Jan 2, 2024 | Sermons
December 24, 2023 / Fourth Sunday of Advent 11:00 a.m. Worship Love: The Greatest Gift Luke 1:26-38 / Romans 16:25-27 (ELLIOTT FAMILY) Today is Christmas Eve! The celebration of the birth of the Christ child inches ever closer, and we anxiously await the sound of...
by FirstPresValdosta | Dec 18, 2023 | Sermons
Sounding Joy Third Sunday of Advent Psalm 126 / 1 Thessalonians 5:16-28 Today we celebrate the joy that came with the birth of Jesus, the birth we await to celebrate in the season of Advent. Our Psalmist writes of a harvest of joy that includes laughter, shouts of...
by FirstPresValdosta | Dec 11, 2023 | Sermons
December 10, 2023 Second Sunday of Advent PEACE: The Message of the Birds (by Kate Westerlund) Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 / Mark 1:1-8 By show of hands, do we have any professional bird watchers in the congregation? I’m not a professional bird watcher, however, I do love to...
by FirstPresValdosta | Dec 4, 2023 | Sermons
Hope: Connections Through Giving 12.3.23 First Sunday of Advent 50th Anniversary Break Bread Together Deuteronomy 15:7-8, 10-11 and Matt 25:31-40 Today is a very special day in that we are celebrating 50 years of the Break Bread Together mission, AND we are...