Welcome to First Presbyterian Sterling Online! Visit past services at firstonsecond.blogspot.com . Click here for an automatic playlist that plays this week's videos. (Click "Play All.") God’s People Gather *Welcome with Christina *Prelude with Amy & Emma Prelude Pondering Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs, it burns and has no fire. Hunger is a cold fire. Let us sit down to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in the lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating. -- Pablo Neruda, excerpt from “The Great Tablecloth” *Call to Worship with Jodi & Joplin Leader: To those who are hungry, Jesus offers bread, saying: People: “Come and eat! There’s more than enough for all!” Leader: To those who are thirsty, Jesus offers the cup, s
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