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Sunday, September 7th, 2025: "The Image of God: Animals"

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Watch the Sermon here   The First United Presbyterian Church “The Image of God: Animals” Rev. Amy Morgan September 7, 2025 Hosea 11:10-11 They shall go after the Lord,     who roars like a lion; when he roars,     his children shall come trembling from the west. They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt     and like doves from the land of Assyria,     and I will return them to their homes, says the Lord. Matthew 23:37-39 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you, desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ” Images of God like the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail are likely pretty familiar to most of us. God as a (typically) white, male, father an...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2025: "Journey for Justice: Weary and Burdened"

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Watch the Sermon here The First United Presbyterian Church “Journey for Justice: Weary and Burdened” Rev. Amy Morgan June 29, 2025 Genesis 21:8-21 The child [Isaac] grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.” The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring.” So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2025: "Journey for Justice: No Shame in Hope"

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Watch the Sermon here The First United Presbyterian Church “Journey for Justice: No Shame in Hope” Rev. Amy Morgan June 15, 2025 Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. She felt ashamed for being oppressed. Mariam Ibraheem carried a sense of deep shame after being imprisoned in Sudan for breaking Shariah law by marrying a Christian man and professing the Christian faith. She felt ashamed that she was viewed as a criminal. She felt ashamed of the fact that her second child had to be born in prison. T...
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