Edenton Street Umc Sermons

Incarnational Ministry (God WITH us) Mr Rogers-"won't You be my neighbor?" “We are called to be tikkun olam,’ repairing the creation.” – Fred Rogers (Post September 11 speech) Theology of "repairers of creation" (Hebrew Word here)...

The message version of psalm 127. The warning against making work our idolatry and claiming work as a place where we can co-labor with God. Make the connection with the idea of "working within the womb of God," or practical spiritual tools for...

How can you find refuge in God? How is God our security, our strong shield and protector? What are the other idols we tend to run to our exhaustion, fear, or insecurity? Our ultimate refuge is in the house of God..."better is one day in...

Bob wrote a letter to his grandsons about legacy...pay attention, listen more than talk, God is there when no one else is.

-Psalms of Lament/Anger/Confusion/Frustration -These are the songs on the Album of your life that you play in confusion, in pain, in anger, in longing, in emptiness, etc. -The psalm meets us in the seeming silence and absence of God and stretches...

John 10:10-21 Ezekiel 34:11-24 -shepherding- If God is a shepherd and we are supposed to be like God, what does that mean and look like -Protection, being led, provision, comfort, "with-ness" -what do the rod and the staff really mean? -Help...

-Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard -Guy at the last gets the same pay as the guy at the first...everyone freaks about it being fair... -God is in the business of grace, not being "fair" We dont get what we deserve...we get far more than we...

every person matters building His kingdom any seed can grow into the kingdom We take a chance everyone so the Kingdom can grow everywhere in anyone.

Compassion is the key to turning the world upside down for the reign of Jesus. A flip of the lenses of your life...we see everything in the world through the lens of compassion. Greek word for compassion means that your bowels are flipped...

What if the Kingdom of God were hidden right beneath your feet? How would that fact flip your world "upside-down?"

What happened when the desire of outsiders to respond to the Gospel of Jesus and join the church was so high it almost broke the church? Take a look at how we might learn from the early Christians as they went back to the basics to decide who the...

Psalm 139

Barnabas took the ultimate risk...on a person...on a belief that God can change people, make them new, and use them for the Kingdom. Disciples were in fear...terrified of this man of his past...feel like this is the default of the church...to call...

You can't buy the power of God You can't control the way the HS works, the way the wind of God blows God is not an idea or a magic to be sold for profit, influence, etc.

"Death to Life" Miraculous death to life Spirit of life animating the church spirit power

What do we celebrate in a baptism? For one, we celebrate that the ordinary mundane of our everyday lives has been baptized in the life go Christ so that we can become a part of the extraordinary work of God's Kingdom in the latest chapter of the...

Easter has just happened, we have a task to carry out now Students being witnesses at another campus College students can have deep faith God sends us out to be community is various places Evangelism, Faith, community New life is supposed to...

Message from Will McLeane on April 1, 2018

Message from Will McLeane on March 25, 2018

-Peacemaking in the world...confirmation Sunday -Peacemaking not same thing as peacekeeping. -Peacemaking for God's Kingdom. For the restoration of shalom. For the flourishing of the world. "Beloved Community" by MLK (koinonia). -From the...