Sermons from First United Presbyterian Church

Watch the sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “Seeking: Can These Bones Live?” Rev. Amy Morgan March 26, 2023 Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered, ‘O Lord God, you know.’ 4Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ 7 So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and th...

Watch the Sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “Seeking: Who Sinned?” Rev. Amy Morgan March 19, 2023 John 9:1-41 As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth.   2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"   3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him.   4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.   5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."   6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes,   7 saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see.   The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"   9 Some were saying, ...

Watch the Sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “Seeking: Will You Give Me a Drink?” Rev. Amy Morgan March 12, 2023 Exodus 17:1-7 From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarrelled with Moses, and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’ Moses said to them, ‘Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?’ But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?’ So Moses cried out to the Lord, ‘What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.’ The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock...