Jim Parsons' Podcast

We start off the First Sunday of Lent with the first story of Jesus interacting with the world in the Gospel of John, the Wedding of Cana. This is a unique way to introduce Jesus to the world, but we can learn a lot about the Good News when we peel back the layers of this story and see the abundance and surprising nature of it. What is always important to remember is, it may surprise us, but it is never a surprise to God.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

We wrap up the Both/And series this week with the last dichotomy, Saint & Sinner. We like to lump people who believe the same things we do and the ones who interpret scripture the way that we do as the "saints" of the church. On the other side, we feel we are worthy of God's grace because we look at our lives and we feel far away from God. When we look in the mirror, we only see the "sinner." The reality is we are both a saint and a sinner, but thanks be to God that we are always covered in God's grace.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

We are in the middle of our new worship series, Both/And. Each week, we look at a different dichotomy in our culture and where God is in the middle of it. In a world of either/or, we need a both/and faith. This week, we look at Us & Them. We have a deep desire to belong and to create an "Us" in our lives. However, we need to be careful that the "Us" doesn't start to leave out the "them." Jesus didn't break down boundaries for us to erect new ones. Let us reach beyond the lines drawn in our culture to experience what God is doing in the "thems." Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

Today, on this snowy Sunday, we start a new worship series called Both/And. We live in an either/or world where we need to live out a both/and faith. This week, we are looking at the dichotomy of the sacred and secular.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

Today, because of the weather, we moved our entire worship to a prerecorded format. We wrap up our three week series on Stewardship today by talking about Stewardship as Legacy and connecting it to the Parable of the Valuable Coins. Stewardship recognizes the shoulders we stand on, and stewardship as legacy makes room for the next generation to stand on our own.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

We continue to explore how stewardship relates to various aspects of our lives. This week, we look at the Parable of the Soils in Matthew 13 and what this can teach us about stewardship as hospitality. Hospitality is about opening ourselves up to others, and we do this through stewardship by allowing ourselves to be used by God to produce fruit and build the Kingdom of God. It isn't easy because we have to cultivate good soil to be used by God in that way. Join us for this journey today, and may we be good soil and used by God to do more than we could ever imagine.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

Today, we start a new sermon series on Stewardship. We often associate stewardship with money alone, but there is much more involved. Today, on the Baptism of the Lord Sunday, we will examine how our baptism is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace that calls us to be good stewards of everything we have, because we are claimed, called, and loved by God.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

Today, we end the Christmas Season with a celebration of the Day of Epiphany. This is when we read the story of the Magi coming to visit the newborn king, and we connect it with our journey with God as a new year starts. Join us as we start this new year off by seeking where the star will lead us.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

We have come to the end of our Advent Journey and are looking forward to what is in store this special night. Thank you for worshipping with us as we welcome the Christ Child, God putting on flesh this evening. We hope and pray that you connect with God in a meaningful way as we come to him this evening. Merry Christmas! Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866 and make sure you click the "Christmas Eve Offering" to help out our Zoe Empowers Group in Kenya.  Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released. 

On this Second Sunday of Advent, we focus on the question, "Do you taste what I taste?" This Advent, our theme will come from Matt Rawle's book, "Experiencing Christmas: Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent." Each week, we will look at another sense of ours and connect it to this time of preparation for Christmas. Today, we learn that the scripture tells us, "taste and see that the Lord is good." It is an invitation to encounter God.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We kick off the Advent season with the question, "Do you see what I see?" This Advent, our theme will come from Matt Rawle's book, "Experiencing Christmas: Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent." Each week, we will look at another sense of ours and connect it to this time of preparation for Christmas. Today, we hear the words of the prophet Jeremiah, and we are called to wait, yet also to have hope in that waiting. We hope you will join us during this season of Advent as we prepare for the birth of Christ once again.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

This is Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday of the Christian Year. It is a time when we remind ourselves that Jesus Christ is truly the King of Kings. He doesn't look like the King of this world, but what he offers is truly something we need, but don't necessarily want. Join us as we look at the story of Jesus and the two criminals on the cross, and what it can teach us about the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

Today, we wrap up our two-week Foundations series. The purpose of this series is to look at creating a strong discipleship in our lives. We will be looking at what is the foundation of discipleship and how we, as followers of Christ, can build off of that foundation. Today, we look at Mark 1:14-20, and the call of the first disciples. Jesus poses two statements in these 7 verses, which is what we build on our discipleship on.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

Today, we start a new, two-week series called Foundations. The purpose of this series is to look at creating a strong sense of discipleship in our lives. We will be looking at what is the foundation of discipleship and how we, as followers of Christ, can build off of that foundation. Today, we look at Matthew 7:24-27, and the familiar parable of the two builders. It asks us the question, "What is our life built on?" Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

On this All Saints Day, we remember those who have gone before us this past year, all the while wrestling with some of the hardest teachings of Jesus. We hold up our everyday saints, not as those who have lived perfectly, but as reminders that the Kingdom of God is made up of real people living real lives. May we all work together to bring about the upside-down kingdom God desires on earth as it is in heaven.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We wrap up our series on 2 Timothy this week with the final 4th chapter. Here we learn about Paul's deep faith in God, even in the reality that he will die soon. We learn that God is God no matter what, and that truly is our source of hope as we face things in our lives. This week, please read 2 Timothy 4 every day and see what God is telling you through this powerful, pastoral chapter. Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We continue our walk through 2 Timothy in our worship series, "High Stakes Faith." We look at the third chapter this week and Paul's commission of Timothy to go out and do the ministry he is called to. This week, please read 2 Timothy 3 every day and see what God is telling you through this powerful, pastoral chapter. Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We continue our walk through 2 Timothy in our worship series, "High Stakes Faith." We look at the second chapter this week and Paul's encouragement to Timothy about what he will need as he takes the mantle of Paul's work after his death. We hear words of hope and the definition of what we hold true in this world. We are also encouraging everyone to read the chapter we cover every day and to see what God is telling them through those words. This week, please read 2 Timothy 2 every day.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We start a new worship series today called "High Stakes Faith." We will be going through 2 Timothy and learning how Paul passes the torch to Timothy to take over his ministry to the Gentiles. This call has high stakes, but Paul gives Timothy hope, courage, and assurance. What can we hear, learn, and hold onto in our own faith journey from Paul's words to Timothy?  We are also encouraging everyone to read the chapter we cover every day and to see what God is telling them through those words. This week, please read 2 Timothy 1 every day.  Thank you again for joining us in worship. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We wrap up our series called "The Table" today by looking at a story in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke, Jesus is constantly going to a meal, eating a meal, or leaving a meal. In the parable Jesus tells in Luke 14:15-24, he talks about those invited to the great banquet. He pushes us to stop making excuses and to accept the invitation to the party. Thank you again for worshiping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

The Church in Corinth did not have great table manners. They were leaving people hungry and now sharing what they had. Paul writes to them to correct their behavior. What table manners do we need to address and change in order for us to be the church we are called to be? This is what we are diving into this week as we continue our series, "The Table."  Thank you again for worshiping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We continue our worship series "The Table" by looking at the table Christ invites us to sit at. During communion, we are invited to partake in the meal he shared with his disciples. What does it mean to sit at this table and receive the bread and cup? This table invites us to become a community with one another.  Thank you again for worshiping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We start a new worship series today called "The Table." The table is the place to nourish our bodies and also our souls. Think of the people who gather around your tables. Think of all the stories, love, and laughter that your tables have held. Today, we look at who Jesus sits down with at his table. It goes against the religious leaders, but Jesus sees the world differently than we do. What could we learn and how could we grow if our tables looked more like Jesus'? Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866. Please subscribe to our channel to stay updated when our new worship services and other videos are released.  CCVI: 504293995 CCLI Copyright License: 1338593 CCLI Streaming License: 20659425

Today, we talk about some basics when it comes to the Bible. How did we get it? Where did it come from? How should we read it? Join us for this worship today as we explore an overview of our holy scriptures.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

How does Milford Hills UMC deploy generosity? We do so by being good stewards of what people give to God through the missions and ministry of our church. This week, we take a deep dive into how this happens and, like Paul in Philippians 4:15-20, we give thanks to those who give so generously.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please visit milfordhillsumc.org/give or text 'GIVE' to 833-264-3866.

We continue our series on Denominations. This week, we examine the origins of the Baptist denomination, which emerged in England at the end of the 16th century.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We continue our series on Denominations. This week, we look at the start of the Reformation and the two major denominations that emerged from this event, Lutherans and Presbyterians.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We start a new worship series on different denominations today. We begin by looking at the two denominations that emerged after the Great Schism.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We worship a God in relationship (the Trinity), but we are also called to be in relationship with each other. How do we, as a community, as a church, get along? What do we do when conflict arises? Today, we examine Matthew 18 and how Jesus instructs us to resolve our disputes.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

How does a Triune, 3 in 1 God work? Today, on Pentecost Sunday, we talk about the Trinity and God's relationship with God. What does this teach us about how God works and about ourselves? Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We begin a new worship series today, exploring what the Bible teaches us about relationships. Today, we discuss marriage and seek great examples to emulate from Scripture.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We wrap up this worship series with the Farewell Address of Jesus in John. This farewell discourse covers 5 chapters of John's gospel, so we will take a balcony view of the themes in this speech and his hopes for his disciples.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

In this worship series, we will examine three farewell addresses people make in the Bible. This week, we will look at Paul's parting words to the leaders in Ephesus in Acts 20.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC's mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

In this worship series, we will look at three farewell addresses people made in the Bible. This week, we look at Joshua's parting words to the Israelites in Joshua 23 and 24.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC with its mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

Jesus comes to the disciples, who had locked themselves away for fear of what might happen. Jesus comes through the locked doors and calls them to be apostles. Today, we look at the disciples' interaction with the Risen Christ on this 2nd Sunday of the Easter Season.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC with its mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We arrive in worship expecting death, more pain, and grief. Instead, we find an empty tomb and receive word that Jesus has risen! Death could not keep him, and today we join together with our fellow brothers and sisters to celebrate that CHRIST IS RISEN! Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in its mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

On this Fifth Sunday in Lent, we explore a classic Biblical story in Luke 19:1-10. This is the story of Zacchaeus, who climbed up a tree to see Jesus as he was coming into Jericho. We see where God shows up in this story between righteousness and mercy. We find that Jesus' mercy leads to the transformation of Zacchaeus and beyond.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in its mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or text GIVE to 833-264-3866.

For this Third Sunday in Lent, we focus on Luke 13:1-9. This is a weird parable that Jesus shares and we explore how we can connect with it during our Lenten Journey. We hope that you come in contact with God during our time of worship and are transformed by God's grace and love.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you want to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

It is Transfiguration Sunday, when Jesus went up a mountain and his divine nature shown through him. It is the last Sunday before we start our Lenten journey and so we gather to remind ourselves of God being God. Our hope is that you come in contact with God during our time of worship and you are transformed by God's grace and love.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

Today we wrestle with this hard command that Jesus gives us in Luke 6:27-38, to love our enemies and to do good to those who hate you. Join us as we let this hard lesson seep into our souls and may they help us transform the world around us by their power. May we see the people around us as God does, as bearers of God's image and people worth God's grace and love. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

Today is Pastor Jim's annual "State of the Church" sermon. He will reflect on where we have been as a congregation and where God is calling us in this new year. Isaiah 43:18-19 gives us a promise from God that we need to hang on to and wrestle with as we look at where will are headed in the rest of 2025.  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

I used NotebookLM and took my sermons from our Out of Context worship series and it created this 20+ minute review podcast. Hearing these two AI people discuss this series and what they "learned" from it is truly interesting. Let me know what you think.

This Sunday we wrap up our worship series, "Out of Context" with Matthew 7:1, "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged." Our Christian culture takes this in two different directions, so if we place this verse back into it's context...does it mean what people think it means? Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

Welcome to the sermon from our modern worship service. In 2025, on the 4th Sunday of the month we are experimenting with two worship services. Our 9:00am is just like our usual worship. At 11:00 we are doing something new with a modern worship service. thank you for joining us this week as we continue our worship series, "Out of Context." This Sunday we look at Jeremiah 29:11, a very popular verse. When we place it back into the context of the prophet Jeremiah, does it really mean what we think it means?  Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We continue our worship series, "Out of Context." This Sunday we look at Psalm 46:10, a very popular verse. When we place it back into the context of the entire Psalm 46, does it really mean what we think it means? Join us at 10:00 am in person (1630 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC) or online this Sunday. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

Today we start a new worship series called, "Out of Context." For the next four weeks we will be looking at four verses people love to quote, put on their walls, or engrave on their jewerly or bodies. We will take each of those scriptures and put them back into the context they were written. Then we will ask the question, does this verse really mean what we think it means. Today we look at the most quoted scripture in Hobby Lobby and in locker rooms, Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."Join us at 10:00 am in person (1630 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC) or online this Sunday. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

On this last Sunday of the Christmas Season, Epiphany Sunday, we celebrate a lot. Not only do we have communion and a baptism, but we also celebrate God putting on flesh and coming to make his home here, in flesh and bone, among us. He doesn't just come for the holy family or Jewish shepherds. God puts on flesh for all people, even forgeiners like the Magi and even all of us in 2025. Join us at 10:00 am in person (1630 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC) or online this Sunday. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give or by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

We celebrate the incarnation tonight, God putting on flesh and coming to earth. Tonight we sing carols, light candles, and worship the new born king. Special music starts at 6:30pm and worship will start at 7:00pm. Whereever you find yourself tonight, please know that God came to this world to show you love, joy, peace, and hope. May you feel it this Christmas Season. MERRY CHRISTMAS!Our special offering will be going towards Zoe Empowers. For the next three years we will be helping support a group of youth and children go from beggers to bosses as they become self-sufficent through receiving micro-grants, and learning life skills and vocational training to support their families and build up their communities. You can give on line through by texting GIVE to 833-264-3866.

John the Baptist's message is front and center but do we have ears to actually listen or do they fall deaf to this yearly message? If we have a hard time with John's message to take our faith seriously, then how are we going to follow the babe in the manger. God's son, Jesus Christ?Join us at 10:00 am in person (1630 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC) or online this Sunday. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give and support our congregation by texting GIVE 833-264-3866.

Music fills this time of year, pointing to the realities of two babys we celebrate. Today, we hear the story of Zechariah's song as he holds his child, John the Baptist, in his arms. As we continue to prepare this Advent season, may we find and experience the depth of the carols that make up our season. May we pause and remember to be open to their call for mercy and peace.Join us at 10:00 am in person (1630 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC) or online this Sunday. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give and support our congregation through our Tithe.ly app. 

Today we start our yearly journey of Advent. We begin the Christian year off by looking forward to Jesus's second advent, or second coming, while preparing ourselves to celebrate Jesus's first coming on Christmas. In the text today we learn that apololyptic texts were written to give people hope in times of dispair and great turmoil. There are many in our lives that need this same type of hope too. Join us at 10:00 am in person (1630 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC) or online this Sunday. Thank you again for worshipping with us. For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at milfordhillsumc.org. If you would like to support Milford Hills UMC in our mission to Love, Serve, and Live as Christ, please go to milfordhillsumc.org/give and support our congregation through our Tithe.ly app.