Sermons

Explore Messages from past services

Feel free to peruse this collection of sermons given by Rev. Rebecca Luter and visiting pastors and preachers at Farmington Presbyterian.  Have a favorite message or want to hear one again?  Missed a Sunday?  Or maybe you simply want to know more about us.  Listen, download, read, and share freely.

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September 16 2019

Call Me Mara

Naomi means "pleasant," but when she returned to Bethlehem a widow, she told her friends, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara (which means bitter)." How do we keep the struggles of our lives from making us bitter?

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September 08 2019

Where You Go…

Perhaps we can’t translate hesed into English, but we can learn to live it – hesed is love, the way we are shown love by God.

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September 02 2019

What Disciples Do: Make the Best of Babylon

“I know the plans I have for you. Plans for your welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” -Jeremiah 29:11

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August 25 2019

What Disciples Do: Wrestle with Faith

Wrestling with our faith allows us to wrestle with faith when life’s challenges come along.

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August 18 2019

What Disciples Do: Share Their Faith

The reality is that at some point in our lives, all of us have been the one sheep, alone, without the safety and comfort and the guidance of the flock. We may or may not have realized we were lost.

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August 11 2019

What Do Disciples Do: They Take Faith Seriously

Discipleship is the formation of our heads, our hearts, and our hands.

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August 04 2019

Storage Woes

Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who decides to build bigger barns to store his abundant crops. God calls him a fool. The man is not a fool because he is rich. The man is not a fool because he is successful. The man is not a fool for building bigger barns. He is a fool because he is living for himself, so when he dies his life will have meant nothing.

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July 28 2019

In the Middle of the Night

God has already promised those who have come to his door, “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

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July 07 2019

Sent Together

We, too, are sent together to share the good news of God’s love in Jesus – and the way we do that starts with “Peace be with you.” “I want to be in relationship with you.”

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