Brentwood United Methodist Church Sermons: Recent Episodes
Brentwood United Methodist Church
This week’s preacher: Rev. Jonathan Andersen
Our Scripture reading: John 4: 7, 9-10, 15, 28-30, 41
This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Lamentations 3:25-28, Mark 6:30-32
This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Psalm 139:7-12, John 14:15-17, 25-26*
This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Selected Verses from 2 Peter, Chapters 1 & 2
This week's preachers: Dr. Davis Chappell and Bishop David GravesOur Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 3:1-7
This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 4:11-16, 5:1-2
This week’s preacher: Rev. Jonathan Andersen
Our Scripture reading: Genesis 2:4-9,15, Colossians 3:23-24
This week’s preacher: Rev. Ani Missirian-Wilson
Our Scripture reading: Lamentations 3:22-23
This week’s preacher: Rev. Brian Hicks
Our Scripture reading: John 20:19-23, Luke 4:14-19
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Jonah 1:17-2:10Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Jonah 1:1-10Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Rev. Jonathan AndersenOur Scripture reading 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Rev. Ani Missirian-WilsonOur Scripture reading:Jeremiah 31:31-34Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Isaiah 40:1-11Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Isaiah 64:1-9Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Rev. Adam JonesOur Scripture reading: Matthew 25:31-46Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Luke 17:11-19Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Acts 16:6-15Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Romans 16:1-16Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Rev. Jonathan AndersenOur Scripture reading: Luke 5:1-11Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Rev. Casey OrrOur Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: John 13:31-35Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Romans 12:1-3Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Matthew 19:13-15Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis ChappellOur Scripture reading: Psalm 150Read our weekly sermon study guide to dive deeper into the sermon each week!
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Genesis 50:22-26
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Ephesians 2:1-10
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 14:22-32
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 1:35-42
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Colossians 3:1-17
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This week's preacher: Rev. Jonathan Andersen
Our Scripture reading: Psalm 46:1-11
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This week's preacher: Rev. Casey Orr
Our Scripture reading: Proverbs 3:21-26
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This week's preacher: Dr. Jim Hughes
Our Scripture reading: Mark 6:30-32
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This week's preacher: Rev. Ani Missirian-Wilson
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 11:28-30
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This week's preacher: Rev. Adam Jones
Our Scripture reading: Isaiah 40:28-31
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 13:1-16
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 12:1-12
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 11:1-16
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 10-19-25
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 8:1-13
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 4:14-5:14
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 1:1-13
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This week’s preacher: Rev. Casey Orr
Our Scripture reading: John 14:1-14
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Russell Levenson
Our Scripture reading: 1 John 1:8-2:2, 1 John 21:1-17
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 20:24-29
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This week’s preacher: Rev. Jonathan Andersen
Our Scripture reading: John 20:19-23
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 20:1-18
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 27:1-2, 11-26
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 11:1-45
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 5:1-18
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 4:4-26
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 3:1-17
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 4:1-11
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This week’s preacher: Rev. Casey Orr
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 20:15-21
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This week’s preacher: Rev. Jonathan Andersen
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:27-30
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 20:13, Matthew 21-24
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Exodus 20:*12, Ephesians 6: 1-4
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Exodus 20:*8-11
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Exodus 20:1-7*
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Exodus 20:1-6*
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This week’s preacher: Rev. Adam Jones
Our Scripture reading: *Exodus 20:1-3*
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This week’s preacher: Rev. Ani Missirian-Wilson
Our Scripture reading: *John 1:1-14*
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Matthew 1:18-25*.
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Matthew 11:2-11*.
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Matthew 3:1-12*.
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: *Matthew 24:36-44*.
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: John 15:1-8.
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 5:14-16.
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 5:1-13.
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: 1 Peter 2:1-10.
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: 1 Peter 2:1-10.
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 18:13-27
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 18:13-27
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 17:8-16
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 17:8-16
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 15:22-27
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 14:5-14
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 12:29-32
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 12:29-32
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 7:1-13
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This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell
Our Scripture reading: Exodus 6:1-11
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This week's preacher: Rev. Ani Missirian-Wilson
Our Scripture reading: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10
Thank you for joining us for Easter! This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 24:1-12.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our Lenten series, called "Walk This Way."
Our Scripture reading: Luke 19:28-40.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our Lenten series, called "Walk This Way."
Our Scripture reading: John 12:1-8.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our Lenten series, called "Walk This Way."
Our Scripture reading: Luke 15:11-32.
This week's preacher: Rev. Casey Orr. We continue our Lenten series, called "Walk This Way."
Our Scripture reading: Luke 13:1-9.
This week's preacher: Rev. Adam Jones. We continue our Lenten series, called "Walk This Way."
Our Scripture reading: Luke 13:31-35.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our new Lenten series, called "Walk This Way."
Our Scripture reading: Luke 4:1-13.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We wrap up our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 6:3-19.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 5:1-8.
This week's preacher: Bishop Bill McAlilly. We continue our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 4:1-16.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 3:1-16.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 2:1-7.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 1:12-20.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our series on the book of 1 Timothy, called "Love Uncontaminated."
Our Scripture reading: 1 Timothy 1:3-11.
Merry Christmas! Today's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 2:1-20.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We wrap up our Advent sermon series, called "Wishful Thinking."
Our Scripture reading: Micah 5:2-5.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our Advent sermon series, called "Wishful Thinking."
Our Scripture reading: Zephaniah 3:14-20.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our Advent sermon series, called "Wishful Thinking."
Our Scripture reading: Malachi 2:17-3:7.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our Advent sermon series, called "Wishful Thinking."
Our Scripture reading: Jeremiah 33:14-16.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We wrap up our series on the Book of Acts that explores the generosity of the early church, called "With Open Hands."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 20:17-38.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts that explores the generosity of the early church, called "With Open Hands."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 19:23-41.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts that explores the generosity of the early church, called "With Open Hands."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 11:27-30.
This week's preacher: Dr. Jim Hughes. We continue our series on the Book of Acts that explores the generosity of the early church, called "With Open Hands."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 5:1-11.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our series on the Book of Acts that explores the generosity of the early church, called "With Open Hands."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 4:32-37.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 17:16-34.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 15:1-21.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 13:1-3.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 10:25-48.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 9:1-9.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 6:8-7:15.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 6:1-7.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 5:17-42.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 3:1-11.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 2:1-13.
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our series on the Book of Acts, called "Empowered."
Our Scripture reading: Acts 1:1-12.
This week's preacher: Rev. Casey Orr. We wrap up our series on the criticisms that Jesus received during his earthly ministry from his own people called "Critiquing Jesus."
Our Scripture reading: Mark 7:1-8
This week's preacher: Rev. Adam Jones. We continue our series on the criticisms that Jesus received during his earthly ministry from his own people called "Critiquing Jesus."
Our Scripture reading: Mark 6:1-6
This week's preacher: Dr. Jim Hughes. We continue our series on the criticisms that Jesus received during his earthly ministry from his own people called "Critiquing Jesus."
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 13:24-30
This week's preacher: Rev. Allen Black. We continue our series on the criticisms that Jesus received during his earthly ministry from his own people called "Critiquing Jesus."
Our Scripture reading: Mark 3:1-6
This week's preacher: Dr. Jim Hughes. We continue our series on the criticisms that Jesus received during his earthly ministry from his own people called "Critiquing Jesus."
Our Scripture reading: Mark 2:23-28
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our series on the criticisms that Jesus received during his earthly ministry from his own people called "Critiquing Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 2:13-17
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We wrap up our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 15:11-32
This week's preacher: Dr. Domenic Nigrelli. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 19:1-10
This week's preacher: Bishop Bill McAlilly of the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Hebrews 12:1-3
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 9:57-62
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Acts 2
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Acts 2
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 5:27-32
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 5:27-32
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 3:31-35
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 3:31-35
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: John 1:43-51
This week's preacher: Dr. Jim Hughes. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 1:16-20
This week's preacher: Rev. Shelby Slowey. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 1:16-20
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: John 21:1-19
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: John 21:15-19
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our new series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 28:16-20
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We begin our new series on the people of Jesus called "Kindred Hearts." This series is the last in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 28:16-20
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with us!
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 28:1-10
This week's preacher: Rev. Casey Orr. We commemorate the Last Supper in which Jesus gave several final commands to his disciples – to love one another, serve one another and to remember him through the breaking of the bread.
Our Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 27:32-44
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 27:32-44
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 27:11-26
This week's preacher: Rev. Allison Gossett. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 27:11-26
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:69-75
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:69-75
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:47-56
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:47-56
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:17-30
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:17-30
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:1-13
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We begin our series on the passion of Jesus called "Passion." This series is the fifth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 26:1-13
This week's preacher: Rev. Adam Jones. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 15
This week's preacher: Rev. Allison Gossett. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 15
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 25:1-13
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 22:1-14
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 22:1-14
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 21:28-32
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 21:28-32
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 13:31-32
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 13:31-32
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 13:24-30
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the preaching of Jesus called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 13:24-30
This week's preacher is Rev Toi King. This week we begin our new series on the preaching of Jesus, called "Reorientation." This series is the fourth in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 13:1-9
This week's preacher is Dr. Laura Brantley. This week's sermon is the Wesley Covenant Service. We pause from our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 2:22-38
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 1:46-56
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 1:46-56
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 1:39-45
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 1:39-45
Listen to our December Resiliency & Hope conversation with Weslee Hill and therapists from the BUMC Counseling Center. We hope you'll join us for our next live stream conversation on January 14 at 7:30 p.m. at bumc.net/resiliency.
Mentioned in this episode:• The Longest Night: a service of healing and hope
Resiliency & Hope is a monthly conversation about mental wellness. Our November conversation focused on stress and anxiety in kids, teens, and adults. Resiliency & Hope is moderated by Weslee Hill, Congregational Care Minister, and features the BUMC Counseling Center therapists: Dr. John Fite, Ph.D., Stacy Jagger, LMFT, and Dr. James Wellborn, Ph.D.
Originally aired 12/10/2020
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 1:26-38
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We continue our series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 1:26-38
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We begin our new series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 1:1-17
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. We begin our new series on the prophecy of Jesus called "The Family Tree." This series is the third in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Matthew 1:1-17
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 17:11-19
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 17:11-19
Hello BUMC family, we have a special midweek treat for you all. We decided to drop the audio from our first Resiliency & Hope conversation into your feed so you can listen to this crucial conversation wherever you are. We hope you'll join us for our next live stream conversation on December 10 at 7:30 p.m. at bumc.net/resiliency.
Resiliency & Hope is a monthly conversation about mental wellness. Our November conversation focused on stress and anxiety in kids, teens, and adults. Resiliency & Hope is moderated by Weslee Hill, Congregational Care Minister, and features the BUMC Counseling Center therapists: Dr. John Fite, Ph.D., Stacy Jagger, LMFT, and Dr. James Wellborn, Ph.D.
Originally aired 11/12/2020
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 7:24-30
This week's preacher: Rev. Toi King. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 7:24-30
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: John 11:1-26
This week's preacher: Dr. Laura Brantley. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 4:35-41
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. This week we continue our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 5:1-20
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. This week we begin our series, Power-Full, on the power of Jesus. This series is the second in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Mark 2:1-12
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. This week we finish our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: John 17:1-24
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 23:26-34
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 22:39-46
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 18:9-14
This week's preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 18:1-8
This week's preacher is Rev. Shelby Slowey. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 9:28-36
This week's preacher: Dr. Laura Brantley. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 9:18-20
We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 6:12-16
We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 4:1-13
This week we begin our new 10-week series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called "Walking with Jesus." Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey.
Our Scripture reading: Luke 11:1-13
This week we continue our series, Lessons from the Quarantine.
Our Scripture reading: Isaiah 45:1-3
This week we continue our series, Lessons from the Quarantine.
Our Scripture reading: Ezekiel 2:1-10
This week we continue our series, Lessons from the Quarantine.
Our Scripture reading: Jeremiah 31:31-33
This week we begin our new series, Lessons from the Quarantine.
Our Scripture reading: Psalm 137
This week we have a special guest preacher, Bishop Bill McAlilly of the future Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference.
Our Scripture reading: Jeremiah 17:7-14
This sermon is the final week of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we've explored a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
The Fruit of the Spirit
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
The Rights of An Apostle
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
As we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; Galatians 6:1-5
The Fruit of the Spirit
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Bear One Another’s Burdens
My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves. All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride. For all must carry their own loads.
This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
As we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; Galatians 2:15-21
The Fruit of the Spirit
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Jews and Gentiles Are Saved by Faith
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law. But if, in our effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
As we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; Galatians 6:1-10
The Fruit of the Spirit
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Bear One Another’s Burdens
My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves. All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride. For all must carry their own loads.
Those who are taught the word must share in all good things with their teacher.
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.
We take a break from our Fruit of the Spirit series to celebrate Pentecost: the birth of the church and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on those who follow Christ!
Our Scripture reading: Acts 2:1-21
The Coming of the Holy Spirit
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”
Peter Addresses the Crowd
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
‘In the last days it will be, God declares,that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
As we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 4:25-32
The Fruit of the Spirit
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Rules for the New Life
So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Beloved, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors! As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Rev. Dr. Davis Chappell and Rev. Allison Gossett discuss the fruit of the Spirit and its significance in our current context.
During our sermon series titled "Fruitful," we're offering daily prompts for you to be in prayer for your neighbors and to encourage them with a verse, a quote, or a word of hope. Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more about the challenge.
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This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
Over the next 9 weeks, as we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; James 5:7-11
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Patience in Suffering
Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Beloved, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors! As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
Over the next 9 weeks, as we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; Philippians 4:4-9
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
The Fruit of Peace
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
Rev. Dr. Davis Chappell and Rev. Allison Gossett discuss the fruit of the Spirit and its significance in our current context.
During our sermon series titled "Fruitful," we're offering daily prompts for you to be in prayer for your neighbors and to encourage them with a verse, a quote, or a word of hope. Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more about the challenge.
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This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
Note for the audio: Davis references a video taken in worship that inspired the song "She Danced" written by Janet Salem Jones and Steven Dale Jones. You can view the music video for that song here.
Over the next 9 weeks, as we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; Philippians 4:4-9
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
The Fruit of Joy
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
Rev. Dr. Davis Chappell and Rev. Allison Gossett discuss the final question in a series of questions about Easter during a global pandemic. Today's question: "What does resurrection and hope mean for a people experiencing deep loss: the loss of loved ones, the loss of normalcy, the loss of community, the loss of jobs, etc.?"
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This sermon is a part of our series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
Over the next 9 weeks, as we consider each of the fruits of the Spirit, we are inviting you to join us in embodying these fruits in specific ways:
Each week, identify at least one different person every day that you can contact somehow: it might be by snail mail or email, text or phone call, Zoom or Skype, social media, or by delivering them something.Encourage them. Let them know you had them on your mind and in your prayers. Also, ask if they have a specific prayer concern that you could pray about on their behalf.If you struggle to come up with a word of encouragement on your own, you can use our daily prompts in the Field Guide, in our weekly newsletters, and on social media to start a conversation. (You can subscribe below.)Write their names in a journal that can become your prayer list. Make notes about your conversation and any concerns they express. Be faithful in praying for them. Such journaling can become habit-forming and a means of your own personal spiritual formation.If you can’t think of 7 different people each week, ask God in your prayers to bring to mind specific people who might need encouragement.If you do this for 9 weeks, do the math. 9x7=63. That’s 63 beautiful people in the next two months with whom you will have been privileged to connect.If 8,500 people do this, 8,500 x 63 = 535,500. If our online worshipers join us, the number will rise to nearly one million people.It’s not really about the number, it’s about the relationships. It’s about being fruitful! The fruit of the Spirit of Christ has exponential possibilities.
Visit bumc.net/fruitchallenge to learn more.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:22-23; 1 Corinthians 13
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
The Gift of Love
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Rev. Dr. Davis Chappell and Rev. Allison Gossett discuss the second in a series of questions about Easter during a global pandemic. Today's question: "What do you think the “resurrected” church will look like in the world post-quarantine? How can the people of BUMC participate in this resurrection?"
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This is the first week of our new series on the Fruit of Spirit! Each week, we'll explore a different fruit and how its wisdom can be applied to our lives.
Our Scripture reading: Galatians 5:1, 13-26
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
The Works of the Flesh
Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The Fruit of the Spirit
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.
Rev. Dr. Davis Chappell and Rev. Allison Gossett discuss the first in a series of questions about Easter during a global pandemic. Today's question: "How does the Easter story take on a new or particular meaning in our context today?"
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Easter Sunday 2020
Happy Easter! Jesus Christ our Lord is resurrected!
Our Scripture reading: John 20:1-18
The Resurrection of Jesus
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
Palm/Passion Sunday 2020
Our Scripture reading: Luke 22:39-46
Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives
He came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. When he reached the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.” Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done.” [[Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him strength. In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]] When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief, and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”
In the final week of our Job series titled "Why Me?", Dr. Davis Chappell explores Job 42:1-6.
Then Job answered the Lord:
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
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In our first Digital Discipleship podcast episode, Dr. Davis Chappell and Rev. Allison Gossett discuss the ways in which our current series on Job, "Why Me?" speak to our current culture and context more than we could have imagined.
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Dr. Davis Chappell
"What distinguishes Godly wisdom from natural intelligence is reverence."
– Dr. Davis Chappell
Dr. Davis Chappell preaches the first week of Brentwood United Methodist Church's series, Things I Wish Jesus Never Said. The scripture reading is Matthew 6:14-15.
Dr. Davis Chappell preaches the final week of Brentwood United Methodist Church's series, Neighbors. The scripture reading is Mark 2:1-12.
Dr. Jeff Wilson preaches on week seven of Brentwood United Methodist Church's series, Neighbors. The scripture reading is James 1:27.
Dr. Davis Chappell preaches on Philip and the Ethiopian on Pentecost Sunday – week six of Brentwood United Methodist Church's series, Neighbors. This week’s challenge: Give. You may call this “reverse hospitality.” According to Dustin Willis and Brandon Clements in their book The Simplest Way to Change the World, “Reverse hospitality is where you take something to your neighbor’s house to bless them. This can be delivering soup to your ill neighbor, providing a meal to a family who just brought home a newborn, or taking cookies to someone who just moved in down the street.” This week, you are challenged to give something to a neighbor.Ideas to complete this challenge:
Write a handwritten note introducing yourself and attach it to homemade cookies or store-bought candy. Knock on their door or leave it on the doorstep. Attach a note to a bag of un-popped popcorn and write, “Just “popped” over to say hi and get to know you better!” Be sure to leave your contact information so they can respond. Looking back at week 3, have you approached that person with the sign on the corner of your commute? They may appreciate some cookies or a gift card.
PHILIP AND THE ETHIOPIAN 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian[a] eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.” 30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. 31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:
“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”
34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. 36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
Dr. Davis Chappell preaches on the parable of the Good Samaritan in week five of Neighbors. This week’s challenge is to connect. On June 9, Brentwood United Methodist Church has the privilege of hosting many refugee individuals and families in worship. Your challenge is to make an intentional effort to connect with an individual or family this week leading up to Pentecost Sunday. Ideas to complete this challenge:
Write a welcome letter to give to a refugee family on Sunday. Consider sharing a prayer for them in the letter. Invite a refugee or refugee family over for dinner at your home. Introduce them to a favorite board game. Host a refugee in your Sunday school class, then take them to lunch after church. Take a meal to a refugee family. Introduce them to your favorite American cuisine.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan 25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.” 29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii,[b] gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.’ 36 Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” 37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”