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Kingwood United Methodist Church
Welcome to Kingwood UMC! This channel broadcasts the 11:00am sermon from our Contemporary worship community: Vine Worship. Wherever you are listening from, we strongly believe, because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that there is always more to life. For more information, visit www.kingwoodumc.org.
When you encounter doubt do you dismiss it or investigate. Regardless of our feelings about the church, about the Bible, about life's complicated questions, Jesus is coming that must be investigated. Happy Easter friends! He is Risen! He is risen indeed!
What are you consuming? As we encounter Maundy Thursday together, we pause and ask ourselves, what are we filling our hearts and heads with? What social media feeds, what conversations, are we allowing to impact us, and are we keeping the words of Jesus in the forefront of our minds? Friends, what are you consuming?
Who we say Jesus is with our words and actions is the difference between being the rock on which He builds the church and a stumbling stone in his path. Who do you say Jesus is?
Bartimaeus encounters Jesus on the way out of Jericho to Jerusalem. Hindered by blindness, cultural limitations, and the noise of society, Bartimaeus had every reason to not pursue Healing. But Jesus sees Bartimaeus, and Bartimaeus encounters the Rabbi who heals.
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What does it mean to be blinded by ambition? In the kingdom of God sight is awarded to the humble.
When we don’t trust God we end up somewhere we are not supposed to be. Even in our disobedience God is already there with us! Are you running from God?
As we look at the life of Moses, following the call of God seems big and only for the super Christians, but the call is for you and me alike. All God asks of us, is to use what’s in our hands and to trust him with the next step.
The story of Cain and Able gives us a unique insight to the complex dynamic of God’s generosity. How is God being generous to you, even when it doesn't look like God's generosity?
The great deceiver strike first at the mind, convincing us of a God with selfish and ill intentions. “Did God Really Say that?” “You are better off being your own god!” This is the path to destruction.
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It’s Pastor Jeremy’s last Sunday at KMC. Today we look at the the great joy of the Christian faith, and ask ourselves, do we REALLY desire God's presence?
We will not talk to our people about things until we have experienced something. When we have a personal encounter with Jesus we will always have something to go and tell others about! Are you opening your heart mind and soul for God to pour something into you?
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Our church has undergone many exciting challenges over the last couple months, but something that has happened under the radar is a reorientation of youth ministry at Kingwood Methodist. Come and meet our youth staff and see how students in our community can plug into our church!
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The only right response to God’s extravagant love for us in Jesus is love others extravagantly. This begins with us personally accepting the love so we love others. Let's dive in together!
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In 1 John 4:7-11 we find the Biblical meaning of God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. It’s hard to love like Christ when haven’t accepted the love of Christ. Have you excepted God's love!?
What does it mean for us to be a church that worships passionately? And what happens when we gather to worship God? Turns out, there is more happening in worship and we could ever fathom!
We worship passionately when worship encompasses the entirety of our lives lived in obedience to God. It transforms the mundane to Holy when God is at the center.
As we lean into the new year, instead of considering all the ways we can change our “doing,” the Wesleyan Covenant Prayer and the Baptism of Jesus teaches us the importance of re-centering our “being” on the one who created us and gave us life and feee grace.
In Matthew 2:1-12, we learn of the three gifts of the Magi brought to Jesus. What if each of those gifts represented how we can give our life to Christ?
God works most beautifully between our expectations and his perfect power. As we listen back to the Christmas story, how is God using a familiar story to speak to you in new ways?
Jesus is the climax of the great story of God to redeem all of creation. Today we look at Mary’s story and how we can learn that her story getting caught up in God can become ours.
Jesus is born in the small insignificant town of Bethlehem. As we look at todays text, we discover Gods heart for the small and Insignificant!
As we look at the origins of Jesus we look at the namesake of the people of Jesus, Israel. How does Jacob’s wrestling the Lord shape our understanding of who we are as the people of God?
Join us on an Advent journey to explore Jesus’ family tree and how we have been grafted into His family. Jesus came to redeem his family tree, and through those acts of grace, redeem us.
In our stewardship sermon this year, we look at what Jesus says about our heart towards money. The call of God on our lives is to invest in the kingdom of God as we ask ourselves the question: what are we investing in?
As we celebrate 50 years as a church we hear the words from the prophet Ezekiel to a people in exile. Join us to hear this profound word of hope that makes angels stand in awe at what the Lord is doing.
The parable of the mustard seed and yeast challenge our understanding of how the kingdom of God impacts us internally, and how it changes the landscape of our lives.
The parable of the sower shows us the mission heart of God. Why does the farmer sow extravagantly and why do we share the gospel extravagantly?
Zechariah teaches how God pursues is in His Love, and how our response to that relationship can change our lives.
From Genesis to Revelation God is depicted as a Gardner working in our lives. As we remember the 50 years of faithful ministry we look towards the one who makes all things grow.
Jesus says “blessed are the peacemakers.” How can lean into the calling to be a peacemaker in our world?
The call of Jesus to live at peace with one another involves us needing to forgive one another. Jesus teaches us the importance of forgiveness in living in Shalom with each other.
Peace within can be difficult to find in a culture of chaos around us. In our message today, the apostle Paul lays out the way we can have inner peace no matter our circumstances.
In John's gospel, Jesus sees a clear difference between the peace that the world gives and God's peace, Shalom. Let’s explore together!
As we unhurry our life, we spend a lot of our time in the pursuit of more. Jesus has a word for us about our attitude towards our money as we strive to be his disciples.
God commands us to Sabbath. Today we look at how one of Gods central commands can be a great blessing for our hurried lives.
In a culture filled with so much noise, how do we imitate Jesus and seek out silence and solitude?
This week we start a sermon series based on the book the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. We are a people who live in a culture dominated by hurry. How do stop, look at the practices of Jesus and follow his lifestyle.
Our UMARMY camp is back after a week in Lufkin, TX. Hear how God called us to love our neighbors, and how He used those experiences to call us to deeper faith.
In the story of zachaeus we see a man searching for Jesus. How do we have relationships with people in our life who are searching? How can we join with the Lord in seeing their reconciliation to the savior?
Paul and Timothy’s relationship is one that we need in our walk with Christ. We need someone who will fan the flames in our life and we need someone who we’re passing down the treasure of the kingdom to. Who holds you accountable? And how are you holding others accountable in their walks with Christ?
We need jethros in our lives. We need people who speak hard truth to and we need to be people who speak hard truths into others lives. How do we do both?
Nathan spoke God’s truth into David’s life. We all need to create space through worship, prayer, scripture and serving others so that God can use a Nathan to speak into our lives.
We all need a true friend in life. Jonathan’s friendship with David shows us several characteristics we can find in being a true friend and in a true friend.
In Acts we hear about the importance of waiting on the Holy Spirit and what it looks to respond to the Holy Spirit on this day of Pentecost.
To have a true assurance of our salvation, God desires to draw for us to draw close to him in secret, honest, and quiet places of our lives. He asks us to pursue true intimacy with him over flash and entertainment. How are you drawing near to Christ?
Before our new confirmans take the stage to get confirmed, our pastors shared words of perspective, and words of liturgy.
God calls us to be ministers of reconciliation. How can we follow the way of Jesus and be ambassadors for this ministry?
Senior Sunday at KUMC is always a rich time at the church, but as we ask our graduating seniors about their faith and relationships with Jesus, may we see the awesome things God has done!
Today we look at God raining manna from heaven on his people and how the Lord tests his people. The test is simple: Will you trust me? How will we respond when we face the same test?
Sometimes we feel like we are simply surviving, but the reality is, we were created to thrive in God's presence no matter the season or circumstance. God is calling us to dine at the banquet table with him, not survive on the outskirts.
Through the cross there is hope. Hope can imagine the future God promised, and imitate what it looks like in the present.
Christ the lord is risen today! Our Savior rose from the grave and conquered death. Today we celebrate the resurrection.
Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us, on more than just Christmas! He is God with us in everything. Including our sin. He is willing to go to the cross for our sin and the sins of the world.
Luke gives us an intimate look into the human will of Jesus and his relationship with God as Jesus prays in the garden, "not my will but yours be done."
God meets us in our anguish, heartbreak and confusion in the most ordinary ways. Through the story of Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, in John 20, we see the ways Jesus gently comforts and returns us to our community to share the comfort we received. It's what Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, and it's for all of us!
Today is Palm Sunday where we celebrate Jesus’ triumphant entry. Today we look at how the triumph of Christ comes through the cross and what that means for us.
Jesus is challenging the disciples to think in heaven’s terms. As Jesus challenges us, may we learn to expect more from God than we can possibly imagine.
God’s response to Shamelessly Audacious prayer teaches us that God’s greatest desire is to give us himself. May this release us to approach God's throne in bold prayer.
Often in our culture today if we want something we can get it immediately, and often we treat prayer the same. But the counter-cultural King we serve calls us to pray with tenacity! We will talk about this today.
For March's healing and prayer message we talk about a comprehensive theology of healing. We believe God desires to heal us, but how the Lord heals is different for each person.
We often overcomplicate prayer. When Jesus teaches us about prayer, He encourages simplicity and honesty. Today we look at how this type of prayer can be transformative.
Today we start our Lent series on prayer. The call to pray is the call of every Christian, from the youngest to the oldest disciple. Today we look at the goal and the heart of prayer.
Both Peter and Paul tell us about the importance of the body of Christ, the church. The church isn’t the building it's the people and here’s why.
The Holy Spirit is the greatest gift we are given as Christians. Do we truly live into the empowerment the Spirit desires for our life?
Today's healing lesson comes from John 9 where we learn about how the Lords healing takes normal days and turns them into a miraculous days. If you would like to schedule a prayer appointment reach out to jeremy.bass@kingwoodumc.org. We would love to pray for you and partner with the Holy Spirit in seeking healing!
As we continue our series "What We Believe" we turn our attention to the trinity. What do we believe about God the Father? And what parallel's does God's word provide in the Old and New Testament with God the Father?
Since Adam and Eve, God's fundamental response to human failure, every time, is pursuit of relationship and an invitation to come out of hiding. Where are the places that God is trying to reach you?
As we continue our series "What We Believe," we talk about the Bible. We believe the Word of God is God Breathed and quick to awaken our hearts toward a life led by his Truth. What is your relationship with the Bible?
As we continue our series on What We Believe, we learn the biblical context and basis for Holy Communion. What are kid's roles in Holy Communion? What does it mean to have an "Open Communion" table? What does this sacrament mean for our relationship with Jesus?
This week we start a new sermon series on what we believe. Today we examine our doctrine of baptism, and how baptism points to God's faithful promises in our lives.
Hey family! In this B-side conversation, we are talking about our advent sermon series "Undistanced." We talk about the church history behind advent, Clint's football playoff predictions, and some practical tips to re-ignite or restart spending time with Jesus. May we draw near to God as He draws near to us!
In the magi visiting Jesus, we see three different people each responding differently to Jesus. As we enter this new year, what has our response been? And how will we respond going forward?
Our calling is like that of John the Baptist, to prepare the way for the Lord in the hearts and minds of the world around us though our witness of word and deed. What is the message that your witness communicates?
God comes to us in an unexpected way as a baby in a manger and he continues to meet us in unexpected ways. Will we make room for him?
Today we talk a look at a different angle of the Christmas Story. The Shepherds. Who were these Shepherds? And why did God choose to send the Angels to them to announce the birth of Christ?
As God unDistances himself we learn that God sees us as we truly are. With all of our brokenness God sees us and recreates and redeems our broken state.
In advent God draws near to us. He unDistances himself from us. Even in our moment of greatest longing and hears our cries.
Welcome to Advent at KUMC! The book of John reveals that Gods intent was that we would not be distanced from him. In response to this, our current and future hope is that we are recreated and unDistanced through Christ.
Why do we have a church calendar? What’s the purpose of the rythyms of the church? Today we’ll look at how the church calendar mimics the patterns of life.
As we dive into our monthly healing and prayer night, know that God desires to heal you physically, emotionally, and spiritually out of his compassion and love for you. Our almighty God loves you so much, and knows what you are going through!
We're excited to share a new project we've been working on! 'B-side Conversations' are intentional, moderated conversations with our pastors that hone in on specific questions from our recent sermon series. Though we believe God can speak to us in a moment on Sunday mornings, or Wednesday nights, God often uses intentional, specific conversations to grow us to be more faithful and confident disciples. Today's conversation is based on our recent sermon series "Callings." We hope these conversations bring up natural questions that branch off our sermon series, but if you EVER have specific questions, our pastors would love to meet and talk about them. May these conversations encourage and challenge you to grow deeper in your love for Jesus and other people!
Today we try to discuss the trinity with some semblance of understanding in 30 minutes.
The Lord meets us in our weariness. What are some practical ways that God encourages us to come to him when we’re weary?
God calls us in different ways to different tasks. We are called to strengthen each other for those tasks through the power of the Holy Spirit.
What happens when we know Gods call on our life yet we knowingly choose to disobey it? Today we’ll look at the call of Jonah and how God meets us in our disobedience.
Have we settled for a fluffy call of God on our life? This week we look at the calling for the first disciples in Matthew and how Jesus shakes up their world and invited them to be kingdom builders
What community shapes your values and decisions? We learn from the early Christian community key values that shaped them just months after the resurrection of Christ.
Call to love our enemies is a call to imitate the way of Christ and be different in a world that hates it’s enemies. This is our great hope and inheritance of the gospel!
The way the world treats one another is a way that we too often have imitated. How does the way of Christ call us to live differently?
Our actions and our words show the reality of our hearts and the lens through which we see others and the world around us.
Our idols prevent us from pursuing God with our whole heart. Do we love God, as well as our idols, and doing so divide our heart?
Pursuing perfection is rooted in who God says we are and who he calls us to be. We are people who have lost our identity. How can we pursue our identity as God intends for his church to be?
Paul talks about how we’re to press onto perfection that Christ has possessed for us. What is this perfection that Paul calls us to pursue?
Why do I do things that I don't want to do, and often don't do things that I want to? As we finish our series "Reset My Heart," we begin to see that everything we do flows from the condition of our heart. When this wellspring of life gets contaminated, it begins to effect everything downstream.
The first step to reseting our hearts is to surrender our it to the Lord. To give over every part of our heart to God, not just the parts we want to give Him. To intentionally open every broken part of our heart, mind, and soul to the one who restores broken things!
July UMARMY is back after an amazing week in Jasper, TX! Hear what God has done through our students and leaders, and how the Lord made himself know in worship.
Life is filled with uncertainties and a future we cannot control. As we loosen our grip on this uncertain future, we begin to see how we can hold onto God. We begin to see that freedom and confidence flows from a trust in the father, not an assurance our our talents and ambitions.
Hello friends! As we continue to dive into Ecclesiastes, we find that it speaks to our deep rooted desire to find fulfillment in life. What gives us life? What do we focus on? How can we not step into things that we are already reminded are false?
Understanding Ecclesiastes is difficult. Today we examine the shape of the book as a whole and how the core of the book yearns for Jesus Christ.
One of the most familiar parables in scripture shows us a picture of life outside of the family of God. How often do we settle for less when God has so much in store for us? How often do we eat a meal with swine when there is a fattened calf awaiting us in the presence of God?
Throughout the whole Bible narrative, we see God's heart, and how much he VALUES us. This parable again reveals God's heart for us and the value that he places on it. Listen and hear to how the Lord is reminding you that you are precious, and that He values you.
Have you ever heard someone ask “Have you found Jesus?” Maybe the question should be “Have you let yourself be found by Jesus?” How are you interacting with Jesus' pursuit of your heart?
What do exorcisms, passive farming and a crippled economy have to do with each other? Jesus is responsible for each, all in the name of the Gospel. Let’s take a look at the decisions we are faced with when we encounter the transformative power of Jesus as we dive into the Gospel of Mark 5:1-20.
Pride is one of the main barriers of God's restoration power in our lives. We see that as pride almost prevents a miracle in 2 Kings 5. How are we letting pride keep God at an arms distance?
The time is now to open up our lives to the restoring movement of God’s Holy Spirit. Today is the day to be compelled to follow Christ with joy and passion and deep, deep love!
We are restored through putting our faith in the truth of the gospel. As we see Biblical hero's call on the truth of the gospel in faith we see that God does not just want us to know and internalize truth, but He wants us to count on Him, in faith, to defend us in truth.
The work of God is real and honest. And while we love real peace, love, and joy, God also desires to bring real forgiveness and restoration in relationships. However, this work of God can be painful because it brings up wounds and situations we desire to keep buried. How can we press in together into God's work of forgiveness?
What do you expect of God? When you think of the most amazing things things that God has done in your life, does that frame your level of expectation in worship and are we just focused on "getting by and getting through?"
Today we talk about the restoration of Joseph to his family. We celebrate how God can use every experience of our lives to restore our brokenness. And even more, how He can help us to become restorative agents within our families and our communities!
Jesus hears our calls above the sounds of the crowd and responds by addressing the root of the problem with grace and healing. He hears our calls above the crowd even the world is saying that we are too insignificant or our sin is too big.
In John 21, Peter sees Jesus on the shore and rushes to meet the savior. However, once on shore, Peter gets creative in avoiding Jesus, because of the shame he felt over how he had abandoned Jesus the night of the crucifixion. However, when Jesus confronts Peter, He doesn't shame, but redeems him. What burdens are you carrying that Jesus desires to redeem? Are you taking them right to the savior?
While we live in post-resurrection times, we often live our lives as though Jesus was just a great dead teacher. Or a great life coach. But family, how different would our lives look like if we recognized Jesus for who He is. The literal risen king of the universe! This has been a year of lost hope for our community and world. But as believers, we can claim victory always because our savior lives.
Though we have a "formula" for calculating "when" Easter is, we are called to SOO much more than that. We are called to be an Easter people! Every day living in the truth and the call of the resurrection, to insert the savior that rose from the dead into every day crossroads situations. On your walks back to what you know (your job, your family, your personal battles), are you letting the savior in?
On Palm Sunday, the people of Jerusalem thought they were welcoming a liberator. While they were welcoming the liberator from sin and death, their distorted reality blocked them from seeing the reality of who Jesus was. What realities have you put on Jesus that He does not desire to fill?
Obedience can be a difficult thing to think about. But obedience to God is different than obedience to any other earthy master. We can find rest in obedience to the Lord because his heart allows our souls to find contentment in his character.
When God calls us to walk with him down the good path it can be intimidating. We can see in scripture that God doesn’t want us to walk alone and to know that where he is leading us is always better than where we started.
When was the last time that you asked for help from someone you loved? When was the last time you asked help from the LORD? How willing are you to share your life with those God has given to support you, and with the one who created you and loves you? Living out the Christian life well demands a lot of prayer, and a lot of support. So friend... Ask!
As we look at the passage of the Good Samaritan again, we ask, "Lord, what new thing are you teaching us?" Dr. Palmer makes the case that this passage is to equally condemn our desire to consistently justify our actions through our faith, and to call us to help first in all situations, and leave the justification to the LORD.
Peter’s brother Andrew is one of the 12 apostles yet doesn’t get as much shine as his brother. In the opening chapter of John, Andrew’s story can shine light on what it means to stand at a crossroad. How are you choosing God in your daily crossroads? Big and Small.
God speaks for himself. He doesn't need us to explain his every move or intention! So, simply stated, how are you sharing Gods story?
When we think about "the gifts" we often think about the "outward" or "obvious" gifts like teaching and healing, but scripture points to a different reality. A reality where God's people (the church) are a collection of different gifts rejoicing in what God is doing through each others gifts. That gifts of hospitality are expressed and beloved in the same way teaching and prophecy are. How has God gifted you to join in His work?
Prayer is a so important to us as believers, but we often asses the effectiveness of our prayer life on the short-term "success" of our prayer life. However, how does Paul frame prayer? What does a vibrant prayer life look like by biblical standards?
When we go to church, we go to experience the presence of Jesus, and then we are released to go serve others! While service certainly still means serving on Worship Team, Kid's Sunday school, ushers, ect. In this time of Covid, it looks differently. How are you still responding to God's love through service?
How often are you fully present with Jesus? Not just "fitting it in" to your schedule, but how often are you fitting your world around spending time being fully present with Jesus?
God's prevenient grace is a mind-bending concept for us as Christians. When we were born as infants, running through our wild years, and through the rest of our story, God's grace pursues us and calls us to himself. As we remember our baptism today, we realize that Baptism is equally initiated by us, and by God. And that in baptism, we show the world who we are, and more importantly, WHO'S we are.
When was the last time that you did something for the gospel that made other people nervous? As we look at the Magi, we realize that following the star was not just a nice moment for them, but a risk taken that we talk about thousands of years after. What star/what dream is calling calling you to follow? How are you stepping out in faith today to follow God's call on your life?
Today we explore what the OT has to tell us about how we respond to the arrival of Jesus in the NT. How is the incarnation of Christ calling you to change?
Have you ever been left somewhere? Have you ever been forgotten? Many of us may have never physically been left by a parent or care giver, but we have all experienced times where it's felt like we are fighting through life on our own. In our final week of Advent, we talk about God's love that never leaves us, and always fights for us.
Joy isn't a little better, or a bit of pep, it's a full overhaul of our perspective as believers! It's a complete swap of striving for a better/happier existence, to a life of joy anchored in right standing with Jesus.
Today, we are talking about peace. Peace is more than just an arbitrary "inner calm," or a "good vibe." Biblical peace is a life fully in balance. However the place that we can gain this peace is not in a meditation schedule or a breathing routine, but by asking the Lord to release peace over our life! Peace does a new thing in our soul that we can't conjure up on our own.
In the natural world, when there is a vacuum, it is filled by its surroundings. As we take this illustration into account, two questions appear, Are you creating space in your life to fill it with the Hope of Christ? And, How faithful have we been to the idea that we are God's chosen people, filled with hope through joyful obedience? May we be filled with the hope of Christ!
This week we explore God's wisdom. God uses the foolish/weak/poor things of this world as instruments of his healing and grace. Even in his time, Jesus challenged the concept of what Kingship looked like. How are you challenging yourself to grow in the counter-cultural nature of Christ's Wisdom?
God calls us to seek his kingdom. When we respond to God's love and grace through obedience, we are able to leave our worries and anxieties behind.
With the election coming up this week what are we proclaiming when we say Christ is king. Have we really put our hope in Jesus regardless of a political outcome? Or is our hope really based on who the president is?
As we look at answering the question Jesus asks "Who do you say that I am?" How do we answer that? What does it look like to amplify our response to that question in a world that answers that question differently.
Romans 12 instructs us followers of Christ to be transformed by Christ not conformed to the patterns of this world in which we live. What ways is your heart fully conformed to the world? And where has God begun to transform your heart?
What does it mean that God calls us? In a world that seems like it is filled with purposelessness, let’s discover how God's call speaks into the purposeless of our lives.
Wherever we look during this pandemic, it seems as if so much is spinning out of control, and especially out of our control. This week we explore the Christian claim that God is in control and hear how that might impact the way we live and love one another.
Justice is important to the heart of God. In a society that amplifies injustice, how can we as Christians live a life that is filled with justice?
God is Love. Jesus is God’s ultimate expression of Love and today we identify how to understand John 3:16 in a personal way.
The world is amplifying their story of reality, but the Bible seems to tell a different story. How can we amplify Scripture in our lives and make its story of love, grace, and correction our own?
As pastor Chris wraps up our series “Be Still,” he asks us to look inside ourselves and really ask us about how we view stillness with the Lord. Are we making time to be still in the presence of the Holy Spirit?
We welcome Deneen Goldsmith to KUMC as a Ministry Intern from Perkins Theological Seminary. In this conversation with Dr Palmer Deneen shares more about her faith, her calling, and her personal preference in Chicken Wings. Welcome Deneen. We're so excited you're here!
The 23rd psalm is so familiar to us, but how does this familiar psalm speak the healing power of the gospel in our moments of stillness?
Too often we burden ourselves with distractions. Jesus gently corrects us to the better way of stillness at his feet.
The Command of God to “Be Still” is so much deeper than simply a comfort in difficult times. Today we dive into scripture to discover hidden truths in the stillness and how God uses this counter cultural discipline to transform our lives.
How do you respond when you have a holy encounter with the Lord? This week we learn about how the Lord instructed the Israelites to remember Gods miracle.
Dr. Palmer continues our series "What's Next?" by pointing out our propensity to take action and make plans and THEN ask God to bless them. Instead, Dr. Palmer points us to a quote by Bob Goff that reminds us to "Be where your feet are." Friends, let's return to asking the Lord's will, and then taking action.
How do you truly feel about God's Hope? In today's message, Pastor Jeremy takes us through Numbers 13 and Joshua 3, and asks us the question, do we really believe in God's goodness, and our living hope in him? Or do we trust more in ourselves and our abilities?
We love the verse “be strong and courageous,” but where does our strength and courage from? Joshua teaches us where our true source of strength and courage lies.
In this week's podcast, Burt and KUMC welcome our new associate pastor, Rev. Jeremy Bass to our church. Rev. Bass talks about his calling, and some of his most powerful personal moments in his walk with the Lord.
Transitions can leave us feeling unsettled and searching for familiarity and comfort. Are you seeking God’s faithfulness and righteousness in the midst of transition or are you trying to fix the problem yourself?
John Wayne's last sermon at Kingwood United Methodist Church is taken from Isaiah 43:1-3; 16-21. As we transition out of the wilderness, so to speak, it is time for us to see what God is up to and join him in that work. In Isaiah 43, God not only promises to help the people in their wilderness but he promises to transform it. Maybe, this is the corporate encouragement we need in this time.
Pastor Chris brings us a message praising a God who refuses to let us give up on ourselves or our purposes even in our moments of frustration, fear, uncertainty and despair. That same, one true God speaks to us in the noise of a protest or the silence of a pandemic to call us to share the good news of Jesus Christ with one another in our actions and words!
Jesus is led by the Spirit into the Wilderness to face evil before his ministry ever begins. This is a unique wilderness for Jesus but also one that brings implications for our own life. This wilderness also can speak into our current problem with racial injustice and evil in the world.
In the wilderness the Israelites learn about obedience and the faithfulness of God. Obedience can often be misconstrued to be something that is oppressive or demanding from God, when for the Israelites obedience was about witnessing to the world about God. This is not unlike our opportunity to shine God's light in the middle of the wilderness.
We all know that God provides water and Manna in the wilderness. What what if God doesn’t just want to get you through it? What if he is using this season for so much more!
As the people of Israel leave the oppression of slavery in Egypt and approach the Red Sea they feel caught between the fear of Pharoh chasing them and the impossibility of the Red Sea in front of them. God moves and makes a way. And we can learn how to address our fears by focusing on God.
We begin our new series, “Wilderness: What Now?” by engaging with the story of the Israelites leaving slavery in Egypt. Our hope is that by learning from their lives we can more fully understand God’s love and presence with us in our modern day wilderness experience.
Peter is one of the more colorful characters we see around Jesus in the gospel narratives. We also get to learn a lot about him; his struggles, his failures, and his work for Christ. Jesus appears to many following the resurrection and in this text, but He is up to something specific with Peter. Join us as we consider the commissioning of Peter and how it might instruct our own lives.
After the resurrection, Jesus begins to appear to the disciples and this story of the appearance with the men on the road to Emmaus is one of the most memorable. There are some interesting things we can learn from the two men and how Jesus intervenes in their traumatic experiences.
Easter Sunday is a celebration of God's victory over the grave and the promise for all of those in Christ. Today we complete the Becoming Lenten journey with this final I am statement: "I am the resurrection and the life." Jesus walks with his friends through tears and grief and then shows the fullness of his mission by bringing Lazarus back to life.
The disciples find themselves in troubled times with the impending death of Jesus and his warning of hardship. In the upper room, Jesus comforts them with critical promises that will carry them through the experience of the first holy week and beyond. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life bears weight on our current context as we face unprecedented times.
In our current season, what does it mean that Jesus is the light of the world and what are the implications for us? This statement from Jesus is not just a throwaway line in the gospel, it carries historic weight for the original audience and shapes our own faith today.