Sermons from First United Presbyterian Church

Watch the Sermon here The First United Presbyterian Church “Prayer Labyrinth” Rev. Amy Morgan December 29, 2024 Luke 2:41-52 41 Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. 43 When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents were unaware of this. 44 Assuming that he was in the group of travelers, they went a day’s journey. Then they started to look for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiou...

Watch the Sermon here The First United Presbyterian Church “Mary Did You Trust?” Rev. Amy Morgan December 22, 2024 Micah 5:2-5a But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah,     who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me     one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old,     from ancient days. 3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time     when she who is in labor has brought forth; then the rest of his kindred shall return     to the people of Israel. 4 And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord,     in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall live secure, for now he shall be great     to the ends of the earth, 5 and he shall be the one of peace. Luke 1:39-55 39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Ma...

Watch the Sermon here The First United Presbyterian Church “Preparing the Way” Rev. Amy Morgan December 8, 2024 Malachi 3:1-4 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like washers’ soap; 3 he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.[a] 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years. Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonit...