Porch SF
Sunday Gathering | May 2, 2021
Locations & Times
Porch SF
1524 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Sunday 3:00 AM
Welcome and Updates
Visitor Connect
If you're joining us for the first time, or the first time in a long time, we'd love to know you're here. You can fill out the Visitor Connect form on our website so we can welcome you personally.
https://www.porchsf.com/sundaySubscribe to the Podcast
https://www.porchsf.com/sermonsAll-Church Prayer Meeting
Wednesday nights at 7:30 PDT on Zoom. If you need the link, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com
Wednesday nights at 7:30 PDT on Zoom. If you need the link, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com
Giving
Those who consider themselves part of the Porch family can give their tithes and offerings online either to our regular fund or you can designate a gift to the Benevolence Fund to help those in our community with financial needs during the COVID-19 crisis.
2021 Bible Reading Plan
We're reading the New Testament and the Psalms together this year. Print out the reading plan PDF and follow along as we post daily readings and videos from the Bible Project every week.
https://www.porchsf.com/2021readingplanJoin us Today: Park Picnics in May
We invite you to join us at Marina Green at 12:30pm every other Sunday in May for more socially distanced picnics after our regular Sunday gathering online. Bring your own brunch, blankets, and camping chairs. May 2, May 16, May 30
https://www.porchsf.com/pastoralupdates
New City Catechism, Scripture Reading, Sermon
New City Catechism | Q17: What is idolatry?
Answer: Idolatry is trusting in created things rather than the Creator for our hope and happiness, significance and security.
http://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#17New City Catechism | Q18: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
Answer: No, every sin is against the sovereignty, holiness, and goodness of God, and against his righteous law, and God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them in his just judgment both in this life, and in the life to come.
http://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#18“How many people have provoked this question: not ‘Who are you?’ with respect to name, origin, or ancestry, but ‘What are you?’—what order of being do you belong to, what species do you represent? Not Caesar, certainly. Not Napoleon, not even Socrates. Only two, Jesus and Buddha. When the people carried their puzzlement to the Buddha himself, the answer he gave provided a handle for his entire message. ‘Are you a god?’ they asked. ‘No.’ ‘An angel?’ ‘No.’ ‘A saint?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then what are you?’ Buddha answered, ‘I am awake.’” —Huston Smith
New City Catechism | Q24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?
Answer: Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God. By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.
http://newcitycatechism.com/new-city-catechism/#24“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys’ philosophies—these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.” —CS Lewis
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