Sermons from First United Presbyterian Church

Watch the sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “Seeking: Who Will You Listen To?” Rev. Amy Morgan February 26, 2023 Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.’ Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God say, “You shall not eat from any tree in the garden”?’ The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, “You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.” ’ But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ ...

  Watch the sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “Thank God for Rules” Rev. Amy Morgan February 12, 2023 Psalm 119:1-8 Happy are those whose way is blameless,    who walk in the law of the Lord. Happy are those who keep his decrees,    who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong,    but walk in his ways. You have commanded your precepts    to be kept diligently. O that my ways may be steadfast    in keeping your statutes! Then I shall not be put to shame,    having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. I will praise you with an upright heart,    when I learn your righteous ordinances. I will observe your statutes;    do not utterly forsake me. Matthew 5:17-37 17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.   18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, w...

Watch the sermon here   First United Presbyterian Church “Thank God for Salt and Light” Rev. Amy Morgan February 5, 2023 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. 6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. 7 But we speak God's wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written, "...