Pastor Michelle McKinnon-Young continues her sermon series: Building Intimate, Enduring, and Healthy Relationships Across Life with Boundaries and Healthy Relationships. Read Luke 2: 39-52 (The Boy Jesus in the Temple), Ephesians 4: 1, 14-15 (Speaking the Truth in Love) and consider the questions below in preparation for worship. Questions for Reflection (for this sermon and beyond) How good are you with setting boundaries in your own life and relationships? …
Rev. Danna Drum continues the sermon series: Social Media, Intimacy, and Healthy Relationships: What it Takes to Build Deep and Enduring Relationships Across Life. Whether you are looking to deepen, repair, form, choose better, enhance relationships, there will be something in this series for ALL of us! What does it take to build intimate, healthy deep and enduring relationships across life? Each teaching will be…
Pastor Michelle begins a new sermon series: Social Media, Intimacy, and Healthy Relationships:What it Takes to Build Deep and Enduring Relationships Across Life. Whether you are looking to deepen, repair, form, choose better, enhance relationships, there will be something in this series for ALL of us! What does it take to build intimate, healthy deep and enduring relationships across life? Each teaching will be…
Pastor Michelle will finish her Transitions Sermon Series this Sunday with “It’s a (Scary) Wonderful New Life.” Read John 11: 1-6, 11-17 and 33-44 and consider the questions below in preparation for worship. Questions for Reflection According to William Bridges (Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes), the neutral zone is only meant to be temporary state. “It is, as they say, a…
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They say, “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” How we deal with change makes all the difference! Pastor Michelle continues her Transitions Sermon Series: Make Sense of Life’s Changes here with her sermon When Something New Calls You… Read Luke 15: 11-24 and consider the questions below in preparation for the sermon. Questions for Reflection 1. From whence does your…
Transitions Sermon Series: Making Sense of Life’s Changes The Journey of a Thousand Miles In our lives we experience many changes, some more difficult or exciting than others. Join us as Pastor Michelle begins a new sermon series called Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes. Read Genesis 12: 1-9 and consider the questions below in preparation for Sunday’s sermon The Journey of a Thousand…
Their are many ways and places to talk to God. You can incorporate prayer into your daily life in many ways. Read Ecclesiasticus 38-27-32a, from the Apocrypha and Acts 20: 34-35 and consider the questions below in preparation for Pastor Michelle’s sermon, Work as Prayer. Questions for Reflection: 1. Talk about your life’s work/vocation (s). How does/did it fill you up? Drain…
Prayer can happen anywhere, any time. When are you in conversation with God? Read Psalm 104: 1-4, 10-30, 33-34 and consider the questions below in preparation for Pastor Michelle’s message. 1. How do you mark your days? Think about your life of devotion. What is filling you up these days? 2. What resources, people and places help you practice your…
People practice prayer in many ways. How do you talk to God? Read Psalm 63: 1-8 NIV and Mark 1: 35. NIV and consider the questions below in preparation for Pastor Michelle’s sermon, Keeping Company with God: The Practice of Prayer. Questions for Reflection 1. Richard Foster, a deeply respected Quaker author writes with a deep knowledge/experience of prayer. In his classic…
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Pastor Michelle tackles a tough subject in this sermon; one that is relevant to all of us: Prayer. Be sure to read Luke 11: 1-13 and consider the questions below in preparation for Sunday’s sermon Between Questions and Answers: [Profound] Opportunity! Sermon Questions: What comes between questions and answers for you—spiritual or otherwise? How satisfying are the solutions? Is every question answerable?How do questions unite us?Think…
Rev. Evelyn Erbele is a Mission advocate with the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church and preached at LOUMC on July 21, 2019.She and her husband, Terri have spent 29 years in missionary service over 3 continents. She spoke about what they are doing now and how the Global Board of Ordained Ministries is responding to changes in the United…
