This is the sermon from the (observed) Christ the King Sunday at St. Stephen's UMC in Houston. The scriptures for the morning were Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 and Matthew 25:31-46. 

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The short story Nathan retold is called "The Gold Crowned Christ," by Korean poet Kim Chi Ha. The book he referenced is called "Tattoos on the Heart," by Father Gregory Boyle. Intro music is from bensound.com.

This is the final sermon in a three-week stewardship series entitled What's Next. We'll be talking about our future as a church, what we're up to right now, and how we're listening for God's voice as God calls us. On this commitment Sunday, we talked about what to do in the face of a broken world. Our scripture is Matthew 25:14-30.

This is the second sermon in a three-week stewardship series entitled What's Next. We'll be talking about our future as a church, what we're up to right now, and how we're listening for God's voice as God calls us. On this All Saints Sunday, we talk about the cloud of witnesses. Our scripture is Revelations 7:9-17.

This is the first sermon in a three-week stewardship series entitled What's Next. We'll be talking about our future as a church, what we're up to right now, and how we're listening for God's voice as God calls us to "know God and make God known." This week's text is Deuteronomy 34:1-12. 

Show notes: Our church website is stsumc.org, check us out! Join us for worship Sunday mornings at 8:30 or 11:00 am at 2003 W. 43rd St. in Houston, Texas. The music in our intro is from bensound.com.

In this eighth and final sermon in the fall worship series "Wandering Home," where we have been walking through the book of Exodus, we talk about prayer. This week's selection is Exodus 33:12-23, in which Moses convinces God to come into the peoples' midst and in the process, he sees God's back.  

 

Show notes: Our church website is stsumc.org, check us out! Join us for worship Sunday mornings at 8:30 or 11:00 am at 2003 W. 43rd St. in Houston, Texas. The music in our intro is from bensound.com.

In this fifth sermon in the fall worship series "Wandering Home," where we will be walking through the book of Exodus, we talk about prayer. This week's selection is Exodus 32:1-14 which ends with the interesting statement "God changed God's mind." 

Show notes: Our church website is stsumc.org, check us out! Join us for worship Sunday mornings at 8:30 or 11:00 am at 2003 W. 43rd St. in Houston, Texas. The music in our intro is from bensound.com.

This is the sixth sermon in the fall worship series "Wandering Home," where we will be walking through the book of Exodus. This week's selection is Exodus 20:1-4 and 9-20, we'll talk about the ten commandments. 

There's a section missing in the middle where the battery died on the microphone. Sorry!

This is the fifth sermon in the fall series "Wandering Home," where we will be walking through the book of Exodus. This week's selection is Exodus 17:1-7 and we encounter a bunch of angry Israelites —and an angry Moses, too!

This is the fourth sermon in the fall series "Wandering Home," where we will be walking through the book of Exodus. This week's selection is Exodus 16:2-15, and we talk about what it looks like to really embrace sabbath and "encounter emptiness."

This is the third sermon in the fall series "Wandering Home," where we will be walking through the book of Exodus. This week's selection is Exodus 14:13-16 and 21-31 and we talk about what it looks like to walk "into the sea on dry ground."