Sermons Cast Your NetDo You Have a “Life List”? April 27, 2025During the season of Easter in 2025, God’s people at The First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heights continued a habit begun during Lent in which we are spending some time considering some of the meals Jesus ate. What did he eat, and when, and where, and with whom? And how did the act of […]Can You Believe It? April 20, 2025As we welcome the Day of Resurrection on Easter in 2025, God’s people at The First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heights are considering the small group of people who spent this morning searching for a corpse – and their inability to conceive of a reality in which dead doesn’t mean dead. Our texts for […]Now THAT’s What I Call Living! April 13, 2025During the season of Lent in 2025, God’s people at The First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heights are spending some time considering some of the meals Jesus ate. What did he eat, and when, and where, and with whom? And how did the act of sharing these meals contribute towards the proclamation of God’s […]Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? March 30, 2025During the season of Lent in 2025, God’s people at The First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heightsare spending some time considering some of the meals Jesus ate. What did he eat, and when, and where, and with whom? And how did the act of sharing these meals contribute towards the proclamation of God’s Kingdom? […]Enough! March 23, 2025During the season of Lent in 2025, God’s people at The First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heights are spending some time considering some of the meals Jesus ate. What did he eat, and when, and where, and with whom? And how did the act of sharing these meals contribute towards the proclamation of God’s […]You Are What You Eat March 9, 2025During the season of Lent in 2025, God’s people at The First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heights are spending some time considering some of the meals Jesus ate. What did he eat, and when, and where, and with whom? And how did the act of sharing these meals contribute towards the proclamation of God’s […]Nobody Said It’d Be Easy March 6, 2025The season of Lent begins with our Ash Wednesday worship service. We talk this evening about what it means to act as the people of God and the Body of Christ in a world that wants to divide and frighten us. In addition to the meditation, our worship includes the imposition of ashes and the […]In a Different Light March 2, 2025Each week God’s people at The First U.P. Church of Crafton Heights strive to be attentive to where God is active in the world, and to shape ourselves so that we might best participate in that. On March 2, 2025 we marked the Day of the Transfiguration of our Lord by hearing the story as […]Who ARE Those Guys? February 23, 2025Each week God’s people at The First U.P. Church of Crafton Heights strive to be attentive to where God is active in the world, and to shape ourselves so that we might best participate in that. On February 23, 2025 we attended to the story of Jesus as found in Luke 9:1-9 and then again […]2025 Texas Mission Trip Update #6 (Final) February 22, 2025For the past fifteen years (excluding 2020) the folks at the First U.P. Church of Crafton Heights in Pittsburgh, PA have sent a group of folks to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where we join our partners at First Presbyterian Church of Mission in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley in a week of fellowship, service, […]
