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Weekly sermons from First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, featuring Rev. Amos J. Disasa.
Whether you're exploring faith for the first time or have been following Jesus for years, this podcast invites you into a journey of purpose, peace, and justice.
At FPC Dallas, we believe in extravagant love, generous healing, and deep reconciliation—modeled by Jesus and lived out in the heart of the city.
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Eshel: Tamarisk | Preaching the Trees
1w ago00:27:05Tap to summarizeAbraham makes peace with a rival king, and the story ends with an unexpected act: he plants a tamarisk tree. The tamarisk is slow growing. Abraham will never live to see it reach maturity. Yet he plants it anyway. In the opening sermon of Eshel: Preaching the Trees, we explore the Hebrew word eshel, a word associated with eating, drinking, and lodging. A tree as an inn. A place of welcome. A sign of covenant. This sermon reflects on hospitality, reconciliation, and the kind of faithfulness that invests in a future beyond our own lifetime. Some acts of faith are not measured by immediate results, but by what they make possible for those who come after us. Part of the Eshel: Preaching the Trees series. Sermon by Rev. Amos Disasa. Subscribe for weekly sermons from First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. fpcdallas.org
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Pentecost Sunday | The Spirit Still Moves
2w ago00:23:08Tap to summarizePentecost is the story of a frightened and uncertain community becoming something new. In Acts 2, the Spirit arrives like wind and fire, disrupting fear, crossing boundaries, and drawing people together across language and difference. What begins as confusion becomes proclamation. What begins behind closed doors becomes a public witness. This sermon reflects on the movement of the Holy Spirit, not only as a dramatic moment in the early church, but as an ongoing invitation into courage, connection, and transformation. Pentecost reminds us that faith is not sustained by human effort alone. The Spirit continues to breathe life into ordinary people and gather them into a living community. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Charlene Jin Lee. Subscribe for weekly sermons from First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. fpcdallas.org
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Kiss of Love: Eccentrics
3w ago00:24:16Tap to summarizeWhat holds a community together after the excitement fades and ordinary life returns? In the closing sermon of Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter, we turn to Peter’s final vision of the church. Not polished or perfect people, but a community learning how to remain together in grace, peace, and genuine love. Drawing from 1 Peter 5, this message reflects on the kind of relationships that can survive disappointment, difference, and time. A church shaped not by performance or appearance, but by the steady practice of peace. Resurrection does not simply change individual lives. It creates a new kind of community. Part of the Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter series. Sermon by Rev. Amos J. Disasa. Subscribe for weekly sermons from First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. fpcdallas.org
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Always Be Ready: Eccentrics
4w ago00:29:20Tap to summarizeWhat does it mean to speak about hope in a fearful and reactive world? In this week’s sermon from 1 Peter, we reflect on the call to always be ready to give an account for the hope within us, but to do so with gentleness and reverence. This message explores a way of living that is grounded rather than defensive, faithful rather than performative. A way of bearing witness through humility, courage, and quiet confidence in the resurrection. Faith after Easter is not only about what we believe. It is about the spirit in which we live and speak. Part of the Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter series. Sermon by Rev. Amos J. Disasa. Subscribe for weekly sermons from First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. fpcdallas.org
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Living Stones: Eccentrics
May 300:30:26Tap to summarizeWhat does it mean to belong to something larger than yourself? In this week’s sermon from 1 Peter, we turn to the image of living stones. Faith after Easter is not something we carry alone. We are being built together, shaped into something steady, shared, and full of purpose. This message explores what it means to find your place in a community that is still being formed. A life where identity is not self-made, but discovered in relationship with others. Faith is not just personal. It is communal. Something we are becoming together. Part of the Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter series.
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Step by Step: Eccentrics
Apr 2600:25:16Tap to summarizeWhat does faith look like when life cannot be explained or resolved? In this sermon from 1 Peter, we encounter a difficult call to endure suffering that is not deserved. Not all suffering is the same, and not all of it can be fixed. Some of it must simply be carried. This message is a companion for those who have learned to expect only brief grace, who have not been able to reconcile with life, but find they must keep living anyway. It speaks to the quiet, daily work of continuing forward. Drawing on the witness of those who have endured unjust suffering, this sermon explores a faith that does not rely on resolution, but on presence. A faith that moves forward step by step, trusting that Christ walks in solidarity with those who suffer. This is not easy faith. It is a steady one. A faith that keeps going, even when the path is unclear. Part of the Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter series.
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Stretched-Out Love: Eccentrics
Apr 1900:33:50Tap to summarizeWhat does love actually look like in real life? In this sermon from 1 Peter, love is not described as a feeling, but as a posture. Something lived out in the body. Something that stretches us beyond instinct, comfort, and convenience. Drawing from the early church, this message explores a kind of love that does not come naturally. A love that reaches toward others without shared history, obligation, or guarantee of return. A love that must be chosen again and again. This is not easy love. It is stretched-out love. Love that exposes us, costs us, and calls us to remain open even when it would be easier to withdraw. Part of the Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter series.
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Glorious Joy: Eccentrics
Apr 1200:34:32Tap to summarizeWhat does it mean to have joy that does not depend on circumstances? This sermon explores a kind of joy that exists before proof, one that holds even in uncertainty and struggle. Drawing from 1 Peter, it invites us to consider how resurrection reshapes not just what we believe, but how we endure. Part of the Eccentrics: Keeping It Real After Easter series.
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Easter
Apr 500:23:47Tap to summarizeEaster begins in the dark, with people carrying spices toward a sealed tomb. The women in Mark’s Gospel are not certain, not hopeful, and not prepared for what they will find. They are simply walking. Along the way, they ask a question they cannot answer: who will roll away the stone? It hangs in the air, unresolved. And still, they keep going. This sermon explores the kind of faith that does not rely on clarity, certainty, or control. A faith that looks, from the outside, like poor planning. A faith that keeps moving even when the outcome is unclear. When the women finally look up, the stone has already been rolled away. The revelation was not something they created or solved. It was something they encountered. Easter is not only about what happened at the tomb. It is about the ongoing act of lifting our gaze, of seeing again, and of recognizing that new life is already unfolding, often before we are ready to perceive it.
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Good Friday
Apr 300:20:38Tap to summarizeGood Friday confronts us with a different kind of violence. Not only the machinery of empire, but the quieter, more familiar force of anonymity. In Mark’s Gospel, the cross is surrounded by a crowd described only as “they.” No names. No responsibility. Just a chorus of passing voices. This sermon explores what happens when suffering becomes spectacle. When humiliation is carried out not by a single villain, but by a diffuse, indifferent crowd. The ones passing by have somewhere else to be. Their mockery costs them nothing. And yet, it is exactly this casual distance that allows the cross to happen. Against this backdrop, one figure is named. Simon of Cyrene. A passerby who is pulled into the story, forced to carry what he did not choose. In a moment shaped by anonymity, he becomes visible. Good Friday does not ask whether you would have volunteered for the cross. It asks something smaller, and harder. When you find yourself near someone else’s suffering, will you disappear into the crowd, or will you remain? You are not a they. You are known.
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