Lansing First UMC

What has been a slow burn as David drifts from God suddenly bursts open in this scripture reading from 2 Samuel 11:1-15, and reminds us that holiness is a habit that we have to choose.

We continue the story of David (2 Samuel 7: 1-14) and come to a transition point that foreshadows what will happen when the people walk away from the covenant of God.

We continue with the story of David and see how an incident of God's wrath concerning the treatment of the Ark can inform our own approach to worship (2 Samuel 6: 1-22)

A look at a difficult text about King David's conquest of Jerusalem (2 Samuel 5: 1-10) illustrates how our faith needs us to be able to handle complicated truths and to take responsibility for our own actions in order to make us better citizens of this world and the world that is to come.

We continue our sermon series through the Hebrew Bible and learn through the anointing of David how God chooses people for service.

We continue our 24 week series exploring the human condition through the Hebrew Bible, by observing how we are prone to rejecting God in favor the ways of the world. (1 Samuel 8: 4-20)

We begin a six month journey through The Prophets and The Writings with a scene of the heavenly throne room (Isaiah 6: 1-13).

For Pentecost (Acts 2: 1-21) we think about what it means to be 'set apart' as the church.

As we reflect on the Ascension (Acts 1:1-11) this year we consider Jesus' final instructions to wait, receive, and witness.

We close our look at the letter 1 John (5: 1-21) by thinking about how we can work with the Holy Spirit to testify to the truth of God.