Sermons from First United Presbyterian Church

Watch the Sermon here First United Presbyterian Church “The Words We Don’t Say” Rev. Amy Morgan May 19, 2024 Acts 2:1-21 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5 Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 1...

Watch the Sermon here   First United Presbyterian Church “The Healing City” Rev. Amy Morgan May 12, 2024 Revelation 22:1-2 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.   The Clinton River runs through downtown Pontiac, Michigan. But you can’t see it. That’s because it was covered up in 1963. The city was struggling with perennial flooding, and it was more economical to pave over the river than to implement flood mitigation designs. There have been studies and plans and public forums over the last few decades about the possibility of uncovering, or “daylighting,” the river. But to this day, the Clinton river flows into a conduit at one end of town and flows back out on the other end...

Watch the sermon here  First United Presbyterian Church “Growth as Grace” Rev. Amy Morgan May 5, 2024 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.   2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?   4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely human?   5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.   6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.   7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.   8 The one who plants and the one who waters have a...