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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April 29 2018

I AM: The True Vine

There are three branches in our lives that connect us to the vine so that we are bearers of fruit. Abiding in God. Abiding in community. Abiding with those at the margins. Everything else in your life and mine is a sucker that keeps us from bearing the best fruit.

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April 23 2018

I AM: The Good Shepherd

We are made accountable to know and recognize the shepherd’s voice and to follow it, and we are charged as a church to have the same instinct as lambs, staying close to one another as we discern his call together.

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April 15 2018

“Though the Doors Were Locked…”

"My Lord and my God!" exclaimed Thomas. In that moment, the door of his heart swung open.

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April 01 2018

Breathe on Me

And when Jesus had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

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March 25 2018

The Time Has Come

When we hear “The time has come” what are we hoping for? There were two parades that day – one of might and power and force proclaiming its dominance as it came on war horses, and one of humility and meekness and invitation proclaiming it came in peace. Which do we choose?

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March 18 2018

A Lavish Love

Mary’s entire focus is on Jesus. She lavishly pours out her love for him with no regard for custom or the thoughts of those watching. Jesus knows by Mary’s action that she understands what is to come.

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March 04 2018

Come into the Light

“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up...

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February 25 2018

A Second Birth

What you are searching for in the dark, Nicodemus, is God. But you won’t find God in rules and laws. You have been searching for a checklist – something you can grasp and control. But God won’t be captured.

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February 18 2018

The Temple

Jesus’ passion and love overcome him, and he is angry. He drives out the sheep and oxen, pours out the coins of the money-changers, and overturns their tables. This scene doesn’t match the image many of us have of Jesus. We tend to picture him as calm and gentle. Rather than focusing on how we see Jesus, though, to really see this scene we need to focus on what those who were there saw.

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