Grow Deeper

Can you imagine? In our text for this week God casts a vision for a nearly unimaginable future, a future without weeping, a future of peace. Join us as we seek to be a people who can not only imagine the future that God has for us, but be willing to get work here and now.

Sermon Scripture Text: Isaiah 65:17-25

"A Work in Progress" – S02E89 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#WorkInProgress #vision #peace

How do you want to be remembered? What kind of impact do you want to make? What legacy do you hope to leave? All Saints Sunday is a day for remembering and giving thanks for those that have gone before us, but it is also a day for us to reflect on how we want to be remembered. As we look to Jesus as the ultimate example, the hope is that we would be remembered for living a life resembling His.

Sermon Scripture Text: Hebrews 12:1-2

"The Great Cloud of Witnesses" – S02E88 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#saints #allsaintssunday #impact #legacy

We set-aside today as a special day, a day to remember those who have gone before us, who are counted among the Saints of God. We remember that all we are has been inherited, as it was those who have come before us that has shared with us the faith. In this journey of the saints we continue, and we do life together. We share as we have been blessed, and share the faith with others as it has been shared with us.

Sermon Scripture Text: Acts 2:43-47

"Life Together" – S02E87 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#saints #allsaintssunday #journey #inheritance

We as a people of faith are called to be generous. Generous with our time, with our energy, and with our money. This week we look at a passage out of 2 Corinthians where Paul reminds this church in Corinth of that calling. Here we find Paul offering some practical, lifegiving, hope filled insight as to why we practice generosity, and how exactly we can be a people who live our lives rooted in the generosity that was first shown to us.

Sermon Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

"Generous Hearts" – S02E86 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#generosity #corinthians #time

We are called to be generous. We can forget that all that we have are gifts of grace, blessings, from God. As such, they are intrusted to us by God for the meeting of our needs, and to be used for the benefit of others. In short, we are blessed to be a blessing! How generous are we with our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness? For all of these attributes in our membership vows are things by which we can be stingy or generous. May we have generous hearts with all that we have been blessed with so that others may experience God’s blessings through us.

Sermon Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

"Generous Hearts" – S02E85 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#generosity #corinthians #time

Prayer is a vital part of our relationship with God, but oftentimes we make it way more complicated than it needs to be. This week we take a look at a passage out of the Gospel of John where Jesus prays for himself and for his disciples. If we let it, this prayer from Jesus can teach us how we should be praying today. The goal is simple, to be a people of prayer.

Sermon Scripture Text: John 17:1-26

"The Prayer of Jesus" – S02E84 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#prayer #Christ #love #grace #hope #promise #calling

We are called to pray. So often we can treat prayer as an after thought or simply as a routine spiritual practice. However, when we pray we have the gift of being able to speak to God Almighty. Moreover, not only do we pray to God, others pray for us. In our scripture for today we see Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane before his arrest, trial, and crucifixion, praying for us to the Father.

Sermon Scripture Text: John 17:1-26

"The Prayer of Jesus" – S02E83 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#prayer #Christ #love #grace #hope #promise #calling

We at Bluff Park UMC are one body with one job. That one job is something that we call The Great Commission, and it comes directly from the mouth of Jesus. Join us this week as we consider how we can be a people who never stop living this great calling from Christ out in our community.

Sermon Scripture Text: Matthew 28:16-20

"Our Commission" – S02E82 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#unity #workingtogether #calling #gifts #ministries

We exist as a congregation for a purpose. Every congregation does. We all look to Matthew 28:16-20 as our “orders” from Christ as to what we are to do and who we are to be. However, each congregation has a unique role to play in the calling of God. How we fulfill the “Great Commission” is unique to our calling as a congregation. Yet, when we all work together as we have been called, individually as members and congregations across a community, all the work is completed.

Sermon Scripture Text: Matthew 28:16-20

"Our Commission" – S02E81 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#unity #workingtogether #calling #gifts #ministries

We are the Body of Christ. We say that all the time, but what does it really mean? This week we consider that question, and recognize that for us to be the church that God is calling us to be, we have to be grounded in our identity as the body of Christ.

Sermon Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

"One Body" – S02E80 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Kevin Payne and Ross Furio from Bluff Park United Methodist Church in Hoover, Alabama. Each week we share our Sunday sermons, and occasion guest preachers, on the podcast to inspire and encourage you to grow in faith and in life. We're glad you've joined us on this journey.

#BodyOfChrist #Corinth #Church #Calling #Identity