FUMC Bentonville Sermon Podcast

Ruth 1:6-22

As we look at the musical, "Mamma Mia!," we will reflect on what it means to stand by each other in all times and spaces, and find family in all those around us.

Luke 15:1-7

This series ties into this year’s Vacation Bible School. This week will be trying to unravel the mystery in the Parable of the Lost Sheep.

Luke 10:25-37

This series ties into this year’s Vacation Bible School. This week will be trying to unravel the mystery in the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Matthew 25:14-29

This series ties into this year’s Vacation Bible School. This week we will be trying to unravel the mystery in the Parable of the Talents.

Luke 8:4-15

This series ties into this year’s Vacation Bible School. This week will be trying to unravel the mystery in the Parable of the Sower.

Luke 16:19-31

And now we will look at the Hell we build around us all the time – flowing from the way we treat each other in this life here.

Revelation 20:1-15

We will take apart the ideas we have of Hell that misunderstand biblical imagery or that come from cultural representations like Dante’s Inferno.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Galatians 5:22-23

In spite of all of our divisions, the truth is, we want to be good people. We just need to remember our shared values and agree to practice them.

Galatians 5:1, 13-15; 1 Timothy 2:1-6; Isaiah 40:28-31 We get a lot of despair and bad news however much that bad news has always been around. We as Christians are called to look forward into the future with hope not fear. In all of these passages, the blessings are not in wealth power and politics, but in God’s presence with us.

Luke 13:6-9, Psalm 85

The Founders of our nation built a government that anticipates human failure. Our civic life includes ways to pause, evaluate, change course, and begin again. That does not make our nation perfect, but it does reveal something hopeful: we are not trapped forever by every mistake we make. As we begin this series reflecting on our nation, we will explore how this imperfect experiment can remind us of the deeper grace of God — a grace that tells the truth about failure, tends what is wounded, and makes redemption possible for all God’s people.