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Episodes
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
To set the scene for this series, we will look at this definition of love given in this letter of Paul’s. As this series is meant to help people understand how better to love like Jesus, we will practice the “Replace the word love with your name” practice of this passage. That will help us know what kind of work we need to do to love better.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Mark 14:1-9
The act of the woman who anoints Jesus is characterized as wasteful. What if it is instead an act of confidence that the reign will provide? There will always be enough to take care of the poor AND worship and care extravagantly for others.
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Mark 10:17-31, 12:41-44
Where is our security? For the rich man, it seems like it was in his assurance in how the world was supposed to work, and in his belief that his stuff would keep him safe. The poor widow will come along and flip all of that on its head. How is Jesus inviting us into the freedom of letting go?
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Mark 6:1-13
This sermon looks at the little difference Jesus can make in his hometown, up against the commissioning of the disciples to go cast out demons! What miracles are at our fingertips that we do not even try to make happen because of the assumptions we make about it being impossible?
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Philippians 1:6-11
I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel. For God is my witness, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Ephesians 2: 19-22 & Ephesians 4:15-16
Where are we right now as a community of faith and United Methodists in this unique place at this unique time. What are the issues we face today? What ways we can continue to uphold our faith while we are in the formidable details of our lived experience. Can we infuse our daily work and life with the joy of worship and stand firm in the path of community, worship, meaning, and joy?
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Joshua 4:21-24, Revelation 19:5-8
January is a time when we are looking forward to the excitement of a new year. But before we, as a church, strike out on this new shiny new year, let’s pause and appreciate the path behind us. What has come before us and who are the folks whose faithfulness and the corner of 2nd & A have carried this ministry to today? We may not always have been on the best path, but good people called Methodists have worked to listen to God's voice and have left a powerful legacy of faith, community, and joyful worship on this amazing corner of the world.
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023