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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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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January 15 2023

“How did we come to be? How did we come to be this way?”

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.

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January 08 2023

Let Us Keep Seeking

Epiphanies - Recalling moments of wonder, places where humanity and God meet.

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January 01 2023

Children of God

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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December 11 2022

There’s Courage for Every Choice

It is easy for us to miss the faithful courage required of Mary and Joseph; faithful courage that can be an example to us when faced with difficult decisions.

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December 04 2022

There’s Hope for Every Fear

We’ve all found ourselves with Mary-like fear. The situation is larger that we are, out of our control, life hangs in the balance, things have not gone the way we expected. Like Mary, we cry out, “How can this be?”

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November 27 2022

There’s Room for Every Story

“There is room for you in my story,” says Jesus the Christ. “There is room for every story.”

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