November 30, 2025 First Sunday of Advent, UM Student Day
The Forgotten Season of Hope - Matthew 24:36-51
Questions for Discipleship: What is Advent? Where is hope found? What are we supposed to be doing?
November 23, 2025 Christ the King/Reign of King Sunday, Thanksgiving Sunday
A Different Kind of King for a Different Kind of Kingdom - Luke 23:33-43
Questions for Discipleship: What is Christ the King Sunday? What makes Jesus a different kind of king? How can I be different?
November 16, 2025 Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
We Didn't Come Here - 2 Timothy 2:8-15
Questions for Discipleship: What does Gospel mean? What distracts you from the Gospel? Why do we worship?
November 9, 2025 Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
Job's Redeemer is Ours - Job 19:23-27a
Questions for Discipleship: What is a redeemer? Why did Job need a redeemer and why do we? How important is perseverance?
November 2, 2025 Twenty First Sunday After Pentecost, All Saints Sunday
The Guide to Being a Saint - Luke 6:20-31
Questions for Discipleship: What is a saint? What makes Jesus' teaching radical? Read and reflect on Matthew Chapters 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49; what makes these a guide for being a saint?
October 26, 2025 Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost and Reformation Sunday
Reformed and Always Reforming - Romans 3:19-28
Questions for Discipleship: What is the Protestant Reformation? What do we need to be saved from? What saves us?
October 19, 2025 Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost and Laity Sunday
You Can't Buy It at Walmart - Ephesians 3:14-21
Cynthia Michael, Laity Speaker
October 12, 2025 Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Lamentations First - Lamentations 1:1-3 and 3:16-26
Questions for Discipleship:. What does it mean to lament? When is a time that hope seemed gone and where did you turn? How does Jesus provide restoration?
October 5, 2025 Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost and World Community Sunday
United in Christ - John 17:20-23
Questions for Discipleship: What is Holy Communion? How does Communion unite us in Christ? What do I need to repent of?
September 28, 2025 Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Spiritual Wealth - 1 Timothy 6:6-19
Questions for Discipleship: What does it mean to be content? Is contentment a choice? What is life that is really life?
September 21, 2025 Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Poverty and Riches - Amos 8:4-7
Questions for Discipleship: What are two kinds of poverty? What do prophets like Amos have to tell us today? How is God rich towards us?
September 14, 2025 Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost and Grandparents Day
The Philosopy of One - Luke 15:1-10
Questions for Discipleship: Who is God concerned for? What do the parables of the lost sheep and lost coin have to teach us? Do we always know in whose life we should make a difference?