Porch SF
Sunday Gathering | November 28, 2021
Locations & Times
Porch SF
1524 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Sunday 3:00 AM
Call to Worship, Singing
Welcome and Updates, Prayer, Break
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/sermonsMissional Family Dinner
Wednesday nights 6:00-8:30 PDT. For more details, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com
Wednesday nights 6:00-8:30 PDT. For more details, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com
Porch Holiday Schedule
Sunday, December 5th - No Gathering
Sunday, December 12th - Prayer Walk
Sunday, December 19th - Christmas Gathering
Sunday, December 26th - No Gathering
Wednesday, December 29th - No Dinner
Sunday, December 5th - No Gathering
Sunday, December 12th - Prayer Walk
Sunday, December 19th - Christmas Gathering
Sunday, December 26th - No Gathering
Wednesday, December 29th - No Dinner
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.
https://www.porchsf.com/giveFamily Builders Gift Drive
Family Builders is the agency that Jon and Melissa are a part of as foster parents. Every year at Christmas, they do a gift drive where people can buy presents for foster kids, and this year we're participating as a church. All gifts must be mailed or delivered to Family Builders by December 3rd.
https://www.porchsf.com/pastoralupdates/2021/11/13/family-builders-gift-drive2021 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/2021readingplan
New City Catechism, Scripture Reading, Sermon
Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements: Over 400 Groups, Individuals & Ideas Clearly and Concisely Defined
Anthropocentrism
The viewpoint expressed in Protagoras’s saying that “man is the measure of all things.” It is today associated with humanism. Recently it has been used by people in the environmental movement as a critique of views that give greater value to humankind over the rest of nature.
Anthropocentrism
The viewpoint expressed in Protagoras’s saying that “man is the measure of all things.” It is today associated with humanism. Recently it has been used by people in the environmental movement as a critique of views that give greater value to humankind over the rest of nature.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Anthropocentrism
Many ethicists find the roots of anthropocentrism in the Creation story told in the book of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian Bible, in which humans are created in the image of God and are instructed to “subdue” Earth and to “have dominion” over all other living creatures. This passage has been interpreted as an indication of humanity’s superiority to nature and as condoning an instrumental view of nature, where the natural world has value only as it benefits humankind. This line of thought is not limited to Jewish and Christian theology and can be found in Aristotle’s Politics and in Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy.
Anthropocentrism
Many ethicists find the roots of anthropocentrism in the Creation story told in the book of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian Bible, in which humans are created in the image of God and are instructed to “subdue” Earth and to “have dominion” over all other living creatures. This passage has been interpreted as an indication of humanity’s superiority to nature and as condoning an instrumental view of nature, where the natural world has value only as it benefits humankind. This line of thought is not limited to Jewish and Christian theology and can be found in Aristotle’s Politics and in Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy.
“Being in Christ, and united to him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.” —Thomas Goodwin
“The only way we can repay God from whom everything comes is by taking even more from him. Spurgeon noted that this is the wisest of all possible replies. He then quoted this verse:
The best return for one like me,
So wretched and so poor,
Is from his gifts to draw a plea
And ask him still for more.
'I will lift up the cup of salvation' is immediately joined to 'and call on the name of the LORD' because we receive God’s gift and then go on in the same relationship, forever asking and receiving from him." —James Montgomery Boice
The best return for one like me,
So wretched and so poor,
Is from his gifts to draw a plea
And ask him still for more.
'I will lift up the cup of salvation' is immediately joined to 'and call on the name of the LORD' because we receive God’s gift and then go on in the same relationship, forever asking and receiving from him." —James Montgomery Boice
“In recounting his plight, the psalmist mentions the word 'death' (mawet) three times (vv. 3, 8, 15), and the mention of Sheol in verse 3b introduces yet another reference to death.
The explicit mention of Sheol and the repeated references to 'death' (mawet) in Psalm 116 may seem overdrawn in a thanksgiving psalm, and perhaps their appearance would be more at home in a lament psalm, yet as Christoph Barth and others have noted, the opposite is in fact the case.” —Dennis Tucker NIVAC
The explicit mention of Sheol and the repeated references to 'death' (mawet) in Psalm 116 may seem overdrawn in a thanksgiving psalm, and perhaps their appearance would be more at home in a lament psalm, yet as Christoph Barth and others have noted, the opposite is in fact the case.” —Dennis Tucker NIVAC
I have seen God working _______ and that makes me thankful because _______.
Singing
Confession and Lament, Communion, Singing
