4th Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh

This is our mission.  We are beginning a renewed effort to engage the neighborhood, establish relationship, and simply love folks the way Jesus loved us.

Sam is the pastor of Grace and Peace Presbyterian (PCA).  They meet on Sunday night in Fourth's building.  It's been a great joy to get to know Sam over the last few months.  And it's was a joy to have him bring the message.

Jim Krummenacher was a great lover of the church, music, people and God.  It was a joy to celebrate his life.  Many shared their memories and hearts about Jim in this time.  We'll miss you, Jim.

The second purpose of our church is to love each other.  It sounds simple and easy, but it's not.  The best thing we can do in our witness to the world is simply be the community Christ desires us to be.  That's something everyone would want to be a part of.

We start a short series on the purpose of our church.  Our first purpose is to love God.  We can do everything else perfectly and have a huge ministry.  If we are not loving God, it means nothing.

Chapter 2 of Matthew is about humanity's response to Jesus.  The right response is represented by the Wise Men.  God reveals himself to them first through nature, then through scripture, and finally in the presence of Jesus himself.  And when they see him, they worship him.  It's a picture of right faith.

Jesus is the culmination of every hope.  He's the promised one.  He's our savior, and he's here.

We're going to spend some time in Matthew over a long haul.  We'll allow ourselves to get distracted for short periods of time here and there, but we'll come back to this until we get through.  In this sermon, we see the themes and message of the book in the midst of a genealogy. The meaning of it all is that Jesus is the Messiah and God of all.

We were born to be in relationship.  Christ has paved the way for it to happen.

The last in the series on being a peacemaker.  This is the end toward which we work in the brokenness of our relationships.  This is a day of remembering brokenness and devastation.  It's a day to remember the reconciling work of Jesus.  Click here to go to audio sermon