PCFC Sermons

Weekend Service for October 25Scripture Readings: John 4:1-42 / John 7:37-38 / Revelation 21:6Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well across the very boundaries that kept her isolated. As a tired and thirsty man, he asks her for a drink without putting her down as a woman or treating her as inferior because she is a Samaritan. His willingness to drink from her container opens a conversation th...

Weekend Service for October 18Scripture Readings: Luke 23:39-43 / Isaiah 53:12 / John 19:31-37The thief on the cross shows that even when it feels too late for a new beginning, Jesus can turn a dying man’s worst day into the best day of his whole existence. Matthew and Mark record both criminals joining the mockery. Luke records the change in one of them: he admits his guilt, recognizes Jesus’ inn...

Weekend Service for October 11 Scripture Readings: Luke 15:11-24 / Job 13:15 / Job 1:1-22 A new beginning can start before circumstances change, when trust in God begins in the middle of what cannot be fixed. Rock bottom exposes the limits of effort, clever decisions, right phone calls, and trying harder. Faith does not always mean God swoops in and makes everything perfect. Faith can mean saying,...

Weekend Service for October 4Scripture Readings: Acts 9:1-6Paul begins as a man who looks like he has it all together. Paul is educated, disciplined, respected, and deeply committed to the Scriptures. Paul believes he is protecting the truth and serving God, but Paul is hunting down followers of Jesus, putting people in prison, tearing families apart, and trying to stop the name of Christ from spr...

Weekend Service for September 27Scripture Readings: Luke 19:1-10Life can become a mess one thing at a time. A house fills with dog hair, grass, toys, and stuff that gets set down, and eventually buckets sit in front of buckets until nothing useful can be reached. Finances, relationships, bitterness, secrets, and habits can pile up the same way, one unresolved decision at a time. The mess can becom...

Weekend Service for September 20Scripture Readings: Mark 2:1-12Mark 2 puts a paralyzed man right in the middle of what it means to be stuck. The text does not explain how he became paralyzed, and that matters, because people can be stuck for all kinds of reasons. The past, other people’s choices, personal decisions, unhealthy relationships, addiction, isolation, unforgiveness, bad routines, and pl...

Weekend Service for September 13Scripture Readings: John 21:15-19John begins this new beginning with Peter, a brash and bold disciple who speaks fast, loves big, and believes he can stand when pressure comes. Peter shows that the people who encountered Jesus were not distant Bible characters in long flowing clothes, but human beings whose struggles still look familiar today. Jesus makes clear that...

Weekend Service for September 6Scripture Readings: 2 Timothy 3:16-17The brownie mix shows why separate Bible verses cannot simply be swallowed one at a time and expected to produce a faithful life. Scripture needs to be read as a whole, with the ingredients together and the heat on, because God is taking His people somewhere. The question is not merely, “What is the point of Scripture?” but, “What...

Weekend Service for August 23Scripture Readings: Mark 14-15Mark 14 and 15 bring the question back again: who is Jesus, and what is going to be done with him? The cross was not the tragic ending of Jesus’ life. The cross was the place Jesus willingly chose, the highest price paid for humanity’s sin, and the clearest answer to the question of human worth. The picture of value starts simple. A house,...

Weekend Service for August 16Scripture Readings: Mark 11-13Mark keeps asking the same question: who is Jesus, and what will be done with that knowledge? Mark 11 through 13 gives the answer with real weight. Jesus is truly the king, but he is not the king the crowd thought it was getting. The donkey says it before anyone else understands it. Jesus does not come riding in on a warhorse to raise a fl...

Weekend Service for August 9Scripture Readings: Mark 8:31–10:52Mark moves Jesus and his disciples toward Jerusalem, and Jesus gets really intentional with them. Jesus is clearly the Messiah, but he is not the kind of Messiah they had already figured out in their heads. Jesus tells them plainly that the Son of Man must suffer, be rejected, be killed, and rise three days later. Peter has the right t...

Weekend Service for July 26Scripture Readings: Mark 7:1–8:30Mark keeps meandering with purpose through chapter seven and into chapter eight, and the big question stays the same: who is Jesus, and what is a person gonna do in response to him? Jesus does not come to wipe out bad people and try the Noah plan again. Jesus comes to give spiritually dead people something new, to change hearts, to open e...

Weekend Service for July 26 Scripture Readings: Mark 6 Mark six turns a corner in the life of Jesus. Jesus has been showing and showing and showing that he has power and authority beyond what the disciples can understand. Right when they think they have seen the biggest thing, he does something bigger. Now Jesus begins to send them out, and the question becomes simple: who is Jesus, and what is an...

Weekend Service for July 19Scripture Readings: Mark 4:35 - 5:43Mark puts four impossible situations side by side: a storm no fishermen could control, a demon no town could tame, a disease no doctor could fix, and a death no human being could reverse. The thread running through all of them says faith is not the absence of fear. Faith is choosing to trust Jesus because of who he is. Jesus sleeps in...

Weekend Service for July 12Scripture Readings: Mark 3:7 - 4:34Mark places Jesus in the middle of growing crowds, but the crowds are not all the same. Some people come because sickness has made them desperate. Some people come because miracles are interesting. Some people come because Jesus has traction now, and everyone wants to see what this Jesus guy is doing. The crowd can gather around Jesus a...

Weekend Service for July 5Scripture Readings: Mark 1:21-3:6Mark brings Jesus into Capernaum without fanfare, without gold chains, without a big white robe, without Jesus filling out a “hello my name is” badge. Jesus shows who he is by showing up, doing what only he can do, and building relationship slowly and over time. His authority does not come from religious branding or a loud announcement. Hi...

Weekend Service for June 28Scripture Readings: Mark 1:1-20Mark opens by sprinting into the story of Jesus. The gospel does not pause for genealogies or a Christmas pageant. It throws the spotlight on the Messiah’s public work, the way Peter would remember it, quick and vivid, packed with “immediately.” Isaiah sets the frame before a single scene plays out. A messenger will clear the road for the L...

Weekend Service for June 21Scripture Readings: Hebrews 12:7-11 / 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12The contrast between caped heroics and faithful fathering sets the frame. Clark, Bruce, and Peter all point to the same thing: under the suit are ordinary people. Ordinary is where fatherhood lives. The flash on the big screen is not the metric. God celebrates the dads who show up day after day, pay the electri...

Weekend Service for June 14Scripture Readings: 2 Timothy 2:1-14Passover sets the tone by tying salvation to a family’s story and command: obey as a lasting ordinance for descendants, and when children ask, “What does this mean to you?” answer with lived meaning, not bare definition. The question becomes the doorway through which faith moves from rule to relationship, from events to interpretation,...

Weekend Service for June 7Scripture Readings: Genesis 2:24 / Luke 15:20-24 / Exodus 18:17-23Parenting names the long road from diapers to diapers and insists the road starts with the parent. The calling looks inward first, asking whether the parent is becoming the kind of person who can lead children toward healthy adulthood. The years shift. Infants need protection. Adolescents need guidance. You...

Weekend Service for May 31Scripture Readings: Luke 2:41-52The goal of parenting adolescents is not to control but to cultivate wisdom, character, and connection that last. The call is holding on while letting go. Early on, protection makes sense. The oven is a bad place for a toddler. But adolescence needs guidance, not gates. The cookie recipe image does the work here: measurement, patience, and...

Weekend Service for May 24Scripture Readings: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 / Psalm 127:3 / Colossians 3:20-21Roots before wings insists that infancy and early childhood are for building roots before anyone tries to give wings. Deuteronomy 6 presses the point by calling parents to commit to God’s commands and repeat them again and again to their children; the early years are holy repetition that sets grooves...

Weekend Service for May 17Scripture Readings: Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Luke 6:43-45, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Colossians 3:12-15We commit to building our homes around a living relationship with God. Deuteronomy 6 commands love for the Lord with all heart, soul, and strength and calls us to repeat God’s commands to our children in daily life. We place scripture at the center of family rhythms so our words and...

Weekend Service for May 10Scripture Readings: Proverbs 31We gather around Proverbs 31 not to chase a checklist but to recognize a pattern of faithfulness that reveals God in ordinary life. We read a portrait of steady work, wise speech, and practical care that brings life to a household. We affirm the everyday labor that often goes unseen: meal prep, prayers, last-minute carpools, and the countles...

Weekend Service for May 3Scripture Readings: Matthew 22:34-40A personal anecdote about cutting shower foam becomes a lens for spiritual insight. Fiberglass dust that caused sudden, visible irritation prompts reflection on how easily others label people by what they see. The analogy of boxes captures how society confines the marginalized—lepers, a bleeding woman, Zacchaeus, the Samaritan woman, and...