The United Methodist Church has big picture challenges with how to see one another as neighbors and loved children of God as we struggle for full inclusion for the LGBTQIA+ community. Pastor Nate was at Leadership Institute in Leawood, KS last week and the sermon includes a report from that experience. This is the sermon podcast for the Traditional Worship service on September 22, 2019. The sermon title is "Are These Things So?" and it's part 4 of a 7-part worship series called, "The Neighborhood." The preacher is Senior Pastor Nate Melcher and the scripture is selections from Acts of the Apostles 6-7.

Carl Sagan once referred to a photograph of earth from 3.7 billion miles away as "the pale blue dot." As we look to our neighbors all around this pale blue dot impacted by climate change, we first build empathy with those in our literal neighborhood and we may find the voices of the marginalized right in front of us. This is the sermon podcast for the traditional worship service on September 22, 2019. The sermon title is "You and You and Who" and it's Part 3 of a 7-Part worship series called, "The Neighborhood." The preacher is Senior Pastor Nate Melcher and the scripture is Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7.

Many of us have experienced harmful evangelism. Do we know what healthy evangelism looks like? How do your neighbors know your faith experience matters to you and influences how you engage them? Leverage "recommendation culture" to share about your church and be authentic to who you are. This is the sermon podcast for the Traditional Worship service on September 15, 2019. The sermon title is "Jesus Out Loud" and it's part 2 of a 7-part worship series called, "The Neighborhood." The preacher is Senior Pastor Nate Melcher and the scripture is Acts of the Apostles 5:25-33.

When you and your neighbors see each other, are you strangers? If you were to take a journal and jot down everything you know about your neighbors, what could you write? Names? Hobbies or vocations? Maybe just house numbers? Jesus sees all the people and calls us to see all the people, too, beginning with our neighbors. This is the sermon podcast for the Traditional Worship service on September 8, 2019. The sermon title is "The Art of Neighboring" and it's part 1 of a 7-part worship series called, "The Neighborhood." The preacher is Senior Pastor Nate Melcher and the scripture is Acts of the Apostles 5:12-16.

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Music, Scripture Reading, and Sermon from Sunday, October 7, 2018