Presbyterian sermons with moral weight and pastoral warmth.
First Pres Podcast presents worship sermons from First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, often framed by scripture readings and the rhythm of the church calendar. Its recent episodes move through Lent and Easter with careful attention to surrender, grace, forgiveness, rest, repentance, temptation, and trust.
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First Pres Podcast is the sermon and worship feed of First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. Its center of gravity is the pulpit. The episodes do not behave like interviews, roundtables, or devotional small talk; they move through scripture readings, liturgical transitions, and extended preaching shaped for a congregation. The voice is formal, warm, and carefully organized. Recent sermons trace a Lenten arc through practices such as release, receiving, reconciliation, rest, repentance, resistance, surrender, and hope, before turning toward Easter resurrection. The preaching often begins with something tangible. Gracie arrives at a food pantry after divorce, illness in the family, a condemned home, and life in her car. A returning college student is met by a family performance so extravagant that it becomes an image of grace. Joseph's reunion with his brothers becomes a way to think about forgiveness after real harm. Manna in the wilderness becomes a lesson in daily dependence. Luke's account of tragedy and repentance becomes a warning against easy explanations for suffering. The show keeps returning to a central Christian claim: human beings are not secured by control, ownership, self-protection, or mastery, but by the mercy and provision of God. It is not politically detached, though it remains unmistakably ecclesial. Sermons name poverty, violence, exclusion, anxious striving, and failures of courage within the church, then bring those concerns back to discipleship. Rev. Dr. Tony Sundermeier is the most recurring named preacher in its episodes, while Rev. Saranell Hartman, Rev. Lauren Tucker, and Rev. Ann Henley Nicholson appear in individual recent services. The podcast will work best for listeners who want substantial mainline Protestant preaching with scripture in the foreground and contemporary moral life close behind. It asks for attention. It rewards it with clarity, cadence, and a steady sense that theology belongs in ordinary hunger, grief, surrender, and hope.
Made for: For listeners seeking mainline Christian preaching, Presbyterian theology, and worship-shaped reflection that treats scripture as a guide for everyday moral life. It especially suits those drawn to measured sermons about grace, repentance, forgiveness, social responsibility, and trust.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its sermon architecture: concrete stories lead into biblical exegesis, then into direct moral and spiritual application. Its congregational setting gives the teaching a local texture without narrowing the themes.
Enjoy sermons and teachings from the pastors and staff of First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scripture-led sermons connect close biblical interpretation with forgiveness, social hierarchy, anxiety, and the obligations of life together.
First Pres Podcast carries Sunday preaching from First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta into audio without sanding away its congregational setting.
A donkey, Joseph's grain stores, and a coyote become mirrors for your grip on control.
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A sermon about release that treats surrender as a hard form of hope.
Tony Sundermeyer shapes a sermon about release that moves from Zechariah's king on a donkey to Luke's colt and the owners who let it go. The argument treats surrender as theological, not merely personal: time, resources, relationships, abilities, and even bodies are presented as…
Joseph's reunion with his brothers frames a sober sermon on truth, grace, and the church's witness.
This single-episode review follows Tony Sundermeyer as he treats forgiveness as something more demanding than quick repair. Working through Genesis 45, he keeps Joseph's reunion with his brothers tied to the long history that made it so charged: favoritism, resentment, the pit,…
A sermon that weighs assumptions about suffering against Jesus' response to tragedy.
Repentance in this First Pres service becomes a challenge to the stories people reach for when suffering appears. Senior Pastor Tony Sundermeyer opens worship and reads Isaiah 55's invitation to the thirsty before the sermon turns to Luke 13, where Pilate's violence and the…
Isaiah and Matthew frame a sermon about mastery, mercy, and trust.
This sermon at First Presbyterian Church in Midtown Atlanta, led by Senior Pastor Tony Sundermeyer, brings Isaiah 55 and Matthew 6 into clear dialogue around one stubborn human habit: wanting to control what comes next.
Easter preaching that finds resurrection in Isaiah, Gracie's story, and the places life has come apart.
This Easter sermon starts with Isaiah's promise of a feast, the shroud lifted, death swallowed up, and tears wiped away, then moves through Gracie and a food pantry before turning to Mary and the promise that Christ calls people by name.
A sermon about the low seat, the banquet table, and who the church makes room for.
Tony Sundermeyer gives the sermon a steady, text-first shape, using Proverbs and Luke to argue plainly for the lower seat, the honored guest list, and hospitality marked by humility.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
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A sermon from First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta focusing on Isaiah 64:1-9, exploring themes of divine presence, human sinfulness, and the need for God's intervention.
This episode is a church worship broadcast featuring readings from Isaiah 60 and Philippians 2, focusing on themes of divine light and glory.
First Pres Podcast features Senior Pastor Tony Sundermeyer preaching on Matthew 18:21–35 and Jesus’ parable of the unforgiving servant.
Tony Sundermeyer frames Matthew 20:1–16 with a Peachtree Street line for free gas and the vineyard workers’ pay.
In First Pres Podcast's “Parables of Grace,” Tony Sundermeyer reads Luke 15 as a story of welcome for both sons.
Senior Pastor Tony Sundermeyer connects Galatians 4, Isaiah 43, and the Olive Garden slogan “When you’re here, you’re family” to a claim that people long to belong.
This Easter Sunday broadcast from First Presbyterian Church features scripture readings from Isaiah 25 and John 20, focusing on God's promise to destroy death and bring salvation through resurrection.
Tony Sundermeyer opens from the corner of 16th and Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, beside the High Museum of Art.
This episode is a Lent sermon series titled 'Learning to Receive: Grace and Gratitude' delivered by Rev.
Tony Sundermeyer uses Jason Hughes' family response to a fatal student prank to examine grace, vengeance, and forgiveness during Lent.
A sermon exploring the biblical story of God providing manna in the wilderness during Lent, focusing on learning to rest and trust in divine provision.
First Pres Podcast presents Tony Sundermeyer’s sermon “Learning to Repent: Turning Toward Life” in the First Presbyterian Church’s Lenten series.
Tony Sundermeyer starts in Midtown Atlanta.
This episode explores the biblical concept of hospitality without hierarchy through a reading from Luke where Jesus teaches humility by advising guests to take the lowest place at a banquet.
This sermon explores how to resist digital distractions and live faithfully in Christ's time, based on scripture readings from Romans and Matthew.