Sermons

Explore Messages from past services

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.

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April 02 2023

Where are you headed?

This Holy Week, may we truly be able to say as Jesus enters Jerusalem, “I am following him.”

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March 26 2023

Where Have You Laid Him?

We face these questions every day. “Can these bones live? Do you believe in the power of resurrection and life in Christ?” Where have you laid down your hope?

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March 06 2023

How Do We Begin Again?

Let the wind of God blow you where it will; God will show you the land, the life, that God intends for you.

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February 26 2023

Who Will You Listen To?

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?

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February 19 2023

How Shall We Worship?

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.

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February 12 2023

How Does God Speak to Us?

God doesn’t always speak to us audibly or clearly. We hear in Samuel’s story several ways God speaks to us.

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February 05 2023

The Stewardship of God’s Gifts

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.

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January 31 2023

Rooted in Ritual

Who do I want to be? How do I want to live?

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January 29 2023

How God’s Will Is Done

The names of the people through whom God works. These are the people who are part of God’s plan unfolding.

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