Sermons from First United Presbyterian Church

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...

Watch the Sermon here The First United Presbyterian Church “The Energy of the Spirit” Rev. Amy Morgan June 8, 2025 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 A...