Feel free to peruse this collection of sermons given by Rev. Rebecca Luter and visiting pastors and preachers at Farmington Presbyterian. Have a favorite message or want to hear one again? Missed a Sunday? Or maybe you simply want to know more about us. Listen, download, read, and share freely.
February 26 2023
The tempter offers all of us 3 temptations: using our power to benefit ourselves, testing to see if God will serve us rather than serving God, and worshiping and serving things other than God. Will we listen?
Listen ReadFebruary 19 2023
Solomon prayed before the altar. “There is no God like you. You keep your covenant of love with your servants. But will you really dwell on earth? The heavens cannot contain you. How much less can this temple that I have built! Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place!” This is the climax, the mountaintop moment, of the whole Old Testament.
Listen ReadFebruary 12 2023
God doesn’t always speak to us audibly or clearly. We hear in Samuel’s story several ways God speaks to us.
Listen ReadFebruary 05 2023
What do we learn from Samson? Four things: 1. God doesn’t force us to use our gifts, but we have them because God sees how they can be part of God’s will being accomplished. 2. We learn that God is faithful even when we are faithless. 3. We learn that faith often grows when we are weakest. 4. And grace. We learn that we can ignore God and break God’s law, and yet, when we cry out, God responds. And God will take the flawed, disobedient lives of people and work through them, even despite them, to make them heroes of the faith, to bring about God’s beloved community, the Kingdom of God.
Listen ReadJanuary 29 2023
The names of the people through whom God works. These are the people who are part of God’s plan unfolding.
Listen ReadJanuary 15 2023
Genesis 1 tells us about the nature of God. God graciously invites things into being. In Genesis 2 we not only learn how we came to be, but how we came to be this way. The first human beings disobeyed God.
Listen ReadJanuary 08 2023
Epiphanies - Recalling moments of wonder, places where humanity and God meet.
Listen ReadJanuary 01 2023
What was extraordinary was the reason Jesus was born - he was born to redeem us, so that we can be adopted by God.
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