Weekly Message from Crozet UMC

This week we explore a Christian response to pain and suffering. Those moments often becomes spiritual weightlifting sessions, making us stronger each time we experience it and lean into faith. Associated Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Your offering makes ministry possible at Crozet UMC! Give today online at crozetunitedmethodist.org/giving/. Your support makes a difference!

Anger and hatred are some of the most powerful expressions of human sinfulness, a sickness in the depths of our spirit that creates brokenness in our relationships.  As long as there have been people, there has been anger and hatred.  Yet we are called to a holier way of being in the world, so how […]

We continue our Worship series on A Christian Response with death and loss.  Death affects everyone in the course of our lives.  When someone we love dies, we experience loss unlike any other.  How do we continue to live?  Can we thrive again?  Yes, the Bible reveals how Isaac did just that after the loss […]

Our new Worship series will focus on how Christians can respond to difficult situations and contexts in our lives.  We begin with conflict.  Serious disagreements arise in relationships, even healthy and holy ones.  How can we address it and work through it?  Join us this Sunday to see how Jesus navigated these difficult waters. Associated […]

On the anniversary of the tragedy of September 11th, we examine what it means to mourn in a way that is appropriate, healthy, and healing. Join us as we explore the Bible’s guidance for those who mourn as individuals as well as a community. Associated Scripture: Jeremiah 8:18-21 Your offering makes ministry possible at Crozet […]

What does the future of the United Methodist Church hold?  We cannot predict, but we can decide for ourselves as individual disciples, members of the local church, and part of the global denomination what we want to strive to bring about and then work to ensure that our ministry reveals that hope. Associated Scripture: Proverbs […]

Despite decades of separation, Methodists yearned to be together in full communion once more.  Not only was a union created with the Evangelical United Brethren, but together they boldly pushed forward for the inclusion of full clergy status of women.  Grace would be the calling card of Methodism moving forward. Associated Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 […]

World War I and II created a profound sense that the brokenness of Methodism should be addressed, if not repaired.  Methodists in the United States began to strive earnestly for reunion.  Could the Church find peace and model it for a broken, war-ravaged world? Associated Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-6 Your offering makes ministry possible at Crozet […]

The first major break in Methodism occurred over slavery.  John Wesley was an ardent opponent of slavery, and it was outlawed in the Church in 1789.  Yet as slavery was dividing the nation, so too did it divide Methodism.  We explore one of the principle texts used to undergird the inclusion of slave holders in […]

The United States was experiencing a Second Great Awakening, a spiritual movement filled with revivals and camp meetings in which Methodism flourished.  It was experimental in nature and flexible in structure, but the threat of schism is looming.  In that liminal space between what was and what would be, the Methodists of the early nineteenth […]