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Welcome to the First Church blog! This is a discipleship resource designed to help you walk in step with the sermons, taking on the topics and scriptures to offer a “deeper-dive” and another perspective to engage with the sermon topic. This blog will house contributions by members of First Church staff and congregation, and may be very different in tone and style week-to-week. The posts may be focused on biblical theology and background context, it may be a prayer practice that goes along with the sermon, it may be poetry, and so on and so forth.
 

As we go through our sermon series on The Ten Commandments, we’ll be sharing additional thoughts and resources to help you go deeper into the topics shared on Sunday mornings.

If you have any inquiries concerning the blog, please reach out to Ben Conrad.

P.S. Increasingly, online content (including blog posts) is being largely or entirely written using LLM tools powered by AI, such as ChatGPT. As a rule, we do not use AI to author any of the content on this blog. It is not that AI cannot be helpful or even be used to create good quality content. However, there is something that is missing in words generated by a program—something that feels like soul. When someone reads, researches, prays, and carefully crafts an offering for our congregation, a part of themselves goes into the thing which they are creating. Think of it like a gift. A thoughtful gift holds inside of it something of the giver. We love our congregation and ultimately this blog is to help us love God and each other well. And so, each word of this blog will be written by a particular person, for a particular group of people.

The Third Commandment

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The First and Second Commandments

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