Pulpit to Pavement

How do we help our families continue thinking critically, faithfully, and honestly, in a world increasingly being immersed in AI? On this episode, we'll explore some of the challenges of AI, and how we maintain integrity and let the Word of God guide us as we interact with this growing technology.

Pastor Kayla starts a new sermon series called "Breaking Bread at the Table" and this first episode is "Who gets a seat?"

This was recorded live at Hillsboro UMC's Sunday service.

Why did we name this podcast "Pulpit to Pavement?" There is often a disconnect between what we hear on Sunday, and how it becomes real to us Monday - Saturday. On this episode, we are laying the foundation for how this podcast will help us take what we hear from the pulpit and take it to the pavement.

As Christians, we are all called to love and to be unified, and to be in mission together. So why do we disagree on so many things? And how, as Christians should we treat others with whom we disagree?

Live service, recorded live @ Hillsboro UMC 9/27/26

New International Version

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

Genesis 1:24-25 WEB

24God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. 25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good