Episodes
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Loving our Neighbors | Rev. Brooke Hartman
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Most of us are so consumed with our family and friends that we don’t make a point to know our neighbors. Who is our neighbor? Jesus challenges us with the parable of the Good Samaritan which teaches us that we are called to love those who we usually don’t even think about or want to know at all. However, what if we took his mandate literally and started making a point to get to really know those who physically live around us. Do we know the names of our neighbors? Do we know what struggles they have? As followers of Christ we are called to love and be welcoming to those who live around us. When we are more intentional about loving our neighbors we have the opportunity to extend the love of Christ in our neighborhood and change it for the better.
Scripture - Luke 10:25-37
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Loving our Families | Rev. Brooke Hartman
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Let’s face it, sometimes it can be easier to love those who are not in our family. After all, we don’t have to see them every day and if someone gets on our nerves we can simply walk-away from them. Not so with our families. However, our families are important because this is how we learn to interact with others, are provided with a safe place to be nurtured and grow, and where we are loved and appreciated for who we are. Jesus understood the importance of family and how growing up in a healthy family is important for us to be nurtured in our faith. A healthy family is one where each member is welcoming and hospitable to each other.
Scripture - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8; Ephesians 4:2
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Loving our Families | Rev. Wil Cantrell
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Let’s face it, sometimes it can be easier to love those who are not in our family. After all, we don’t have to see them every day and if someone gets on our nerves we can simply walk-away from them. Not so with our families. However, our families are important because this is how we learn to interact with others, are provided with a safe place to be nurtured and grow, and where we are loved and appreciated for who we are. Jesus understood the importance of family and how growing up in a healthy family is important for us to be nurtured in our faith. A healthy family is one where each member is welcoming and hospitable to each other.
Scripture - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8; Ephesians 4:2
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Loving Ourselves | Rev. Brooke Hartman
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Jesus claims that we need to love our neighbors as ourselves. However, due to a myriad of reasons, many of us are not as healthy and whole as we want to be resulting in a lack of satisfaction with ourselves. In fact, many of us set “New Year’s Resolutions” or goals at the beginning of each year with the desire of changing ourselves for the better. Unfortunately, these resolutions or goals tend to disappear by March of each year only causing us to become discouraged. What if this year was different and rather than relying on ourselves to change we relied on Jesus to help us become healthy and whole. It is only when we become healthy and whole that we can extend the love of Christ to others in a joyful and welcoming manner.
Scripture - Matthew 22:37-40; John 15:4-11
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Loving Ourselves | Rev. Wil Cantrell
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Jesus claims that we need to love our neighbors as ourselves. However, due to a myriad of reasons, many of us are not as healthy and whole as we want to be resulting in a lack of satisfaction with ourselves. In fact, many of us set “New Year’s Resolutions” or goals at the beginning of each year with the desire of changing ourselves for the better. Unfortunately, these resolutions or goals tend to disappear by March of each year only causing us to become discouraged. What if this year was different and rather than relying on ourselves to change we relied on Jesus to help us become healthy and whole. It is only when we become healthy and whole that we can extend the love of Christ to others in a joyful and welcoming manner.
Scripture - Matthew 22:37-40; John 15:4-11
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Unlikely Prophet | Rev. Mike Stallings
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
We conclude our Advent series connecting where we began. Elizabeth and Zechariah’s unlikely son becomes an unlikely prophet, preparing the way for Jesus. We too have unlikely opportunities to share Christ with others. As we conclude the holiday season and enter into a new year, we seek to take next steps of sharing Christ, serving others, and growing in faith. We pray the Wesleyan Covenant Prayer as a reminder and recentering our focus on the unlikely opportunities ahead.
Scripture - Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-3
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Unlikely King | Rev. Wil Cantrell
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
In our modern day culture, we know a little bit about what it is like when a king is born, or at least a future king, as we are witness to the monarchy of Great Britain. We view the happenings with intrigue and mystery as this is very different than our culture. The King of Kings was not born into pomp and circumstance. Jesus was born simply, in a manger because there was no guest room, amongst the animals, proclaimed to the unlikely shepherds. The Messiah. Our Savior. An unlikely King.
Scripture - Luke 2:1-12
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Unlikely King | Rev. Brooke Hartman
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
In our modern day culture, we know a little bit about what it is like when a king is born, or at least a future king, as we are witness to the monarchy of Great Britain. We view the happenings with intrigue and mystery as this is very different than our culture. The King of Kings was not born into pomp and circumstance. Jesus was born simply, in a manger because there was no guest room, amongst the animals, proclaimed to the unlikely shepherds. The Messiah. Our Savior. An unlikely King.
Scripture - Luke 2:1-12
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Unlikely Witnesses | Rev. Wil Cantrell
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
The Shepherds often have a place in the story of Jesus’ birth yet there is more to their story too. The shepherds are unlikely witnesses to the birth of the king. They are not the elite, in fact, far from it. They were the ones to whom the angels proclaimed the birth of Jesus and were summoned to go to see the babe born in the manger. Who are the unlikely witnesses that we overlook in our lives? How can we be unlikely witnesses of the Savior born?
Scripture - Luke 2:8-20
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Unlikely Witnesses | Rev. Brooke Hartman
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
The Shepherds often have a place in the story of Jesus’ birth yet there is more to their story too. The shepherds are unlikely witnesses to the birth of the king. They are not the elite, in fact, far from it. They were the ones to whom the angels proclaimed the birth of Jesus and were summoned to go to see the babe born in the manger. Who are the unlikely witnesses that we overlook in our lives? How can we be unlikely witnesses of the Savior born?
Scripture - Luke 2:8-20