Grow Deeper

Rev. Dr. Kay Mutert, BPUMC minister of care, preaches the Sunday traditional worship Sermon at Bluff Park UMC.

Sermon Scripture Text: 1 John 4:7-10

"The Spirit of Love" – S02E49 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#spirit #love

In the sermon this week Ross reflects on the strange story of Jesus healing a man from a legion of demons. The man survives, but a herd of swine are not so lucky. In this story Ross reminds us of two foundational truths that we believe as Christians. Jesus is with us, no matter where we are, and Jesus is enough, no matter what we are facing. There is great hope in this story!

Sermon Scripture Text: Luke 8:26-39

"Jesus Is Enough" – S02E48 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#Demons #Legion #Jesus #Galilee #Hope

Rev. Angela Martin, former BPUMC associate pastor and current senior pastor at Huffman UMC, preaches the Sunday Sermon at Bluff Park UMC.

Sermon Scripture Text: 1 Peter 2:1-10

"The Peculiar Community" – S02E47 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#peculiar #community

This week Ross helps us take a look at Romans 5:1-5. He leans into our identity as United Methodists, reminds us of what we believe about God's grace, and articulates how we can be a people who are living in that grace. It is a hope filled message, that leaves us with the reminder that there is no corner of our life that is untouched by God's grace. Thanks be to God!

Sermon Scripture Text: Romans 5:1-5

"God Reaches Out First" – S02E46 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#Prevenient #Justifying #Sanctifying #Grace #Romans #Paul #House

In his final sermon as senior pastor at Bluff Park UMC, Rev. Mike Holly shares how Paul was so very thankful for the faith and dedication of the Christians in Ephesus that he constantly prayed prayers of thanksgiving to God for them. Rev. Holly shares that over his nine years at Bluff Park UMC, he and his family have been blessed by the church family at Bluff Park and that he will always be praying for the church and is thankful for their faith and dedication to Christ.

Sermon Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:15-23

"Nonstop Thanksgiving" – S02E45 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#LastSermon  #PrayWithoutCeasing #ChurchsWitness

In this message Ross reminds us that in Pentecost we celebrate the coming of the Spirit and the birth of the church, but we also discover the mission of that church. Our mission is to go and tell the good news of Jesus. We are to share what we have experienced with others.

Sermon Scripture Text: John 20:19-23

"Pentecost: Breath of God" – S02E44 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#BreathOfGod #HolySpirit #church #mission

Ready or not, change comes our way. We can try to be prepared for everything, but at some point, we will have to learn to face the future we have (or have been given) instead of the future for which we were prepared. God in Jesus Christ prepared the disciples for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, but those who heard Peter's sermon had to discern whether the promised new age of God had just arrived or if the disciples were simply drunk or crazy. Tongues of fire above the heads of the disciples pointed to the presence of God being with these disciples underscoring that this was in fact God's new era. Hear about how Pentecost is the birthday of the Church and how we can learn to trust in God who makes all things new.

Sermon Scripture Text: Acts 2:1-21

"Pentecost" – S02E43 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#Pentecost #ReadyOrNot #TonguesOfFire #GodsPresence

In this message Ross helps us take a look at a section of Paul's letter to a community in Corinth that is dealing with disagreements within the life of the church. Though Paul does address those specific areas of disagreement, what we also find is a framework for how we as followers of Jesus in 2022 should approach the many disagreements that swirl around us. Paul contrasts knowledge and love in this text, and you won't be surprised that the calling upon us to be a people who lead with love.

Sermon Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

"Lead with Love" – S02E42 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#disagreement #love #Corinthians

Our Lay Leader, Tina Hardy, shares a wonderful sermon on Memorial Day Weekend 2022. Change, she says, is not good or bad. It is inevitable. How we deal with change is part of our witness as Christians. "How will I deal with the change that happens to me?" She asks us to look to our Savior and learn to accept the change before us.

Sermon Scripture Text: Acts 16:16-34

"Change - Good or Bad" – S02E41 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#change #PlaceOfPrayer #PaulInPrison

Life isn't fair, and this parable shows us that neither is God. This week Ross spends some time reflecting on the Parable of the Workers in Vineyard, a parable that many don't like. The reason folks don't care for this teaching from Jesus is because it isn't fair. It isn't fair that the first workers are paid the same as the last. This parable forces us to see, no matter how uncomfortable it might make us, that God is a God of grace.

Sermon Scripture Text: Matthew 20:1-16

"It's Not Fair" – S02E40 of Grow Deeper: A Bluff Park UMC Podcast

Welcome to the Grow Deeper podcast. We’re pastors Mike Holly 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.

#Grace #Vineyard #Parable #Jesus #Fair