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Human hope is a sign pointing to our one true hope: Jesus. Jesus doesn't just raise the dead – by trusting in him, he empowers us to transcend the fear of death, because life in Jesus is so fully life that it is as if the one trusting in him never dies, even on this side of eternity.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

How we view ourselves holds great power for what we believe God wants to do in us and through us, especially when our gifts get involved. We talk about Jesus as our Shepard and us as... Let's talk about it! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

In Jesus you are known, loved, and cared for – Jesus is even willing to lay down his life for you. In John 10, Jesus invites us to follow him as our shepherd and calls us to shepherd our lost and hurting world to Him.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

What does it mean for Jesus to be a door or Gate? Why don't we talk about that as much as other biblical metophores? And does Jesus' rich abundant life promise give us the ability to expect financial favor? Or assurance of a "good life?" Let's talk. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

In John 10, Jesus says, “I am the door.” Through Jesus, we can exit a life of fear and sin and enter into a relationship with God! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Good Works Collective is a job ministry that is helping people find more than just the next job. They are building people up spiritually and equipping them to enter into new careers. They are building self-esteem and community that is allowing people to find purpose and God's calling in their work. They are helping break down the barriers that can prevent those that are just working to make ends meet, to help them find careers that allow for purpose and fruitfulness.

As we react to UMARMY Sunday across the campus, we use Burt's scripture to ask the critical question of, What makes someone a Christian? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

God has done mighty things again among us at UMARMY. Lets hear from some adult leaders and campers on how they saw God moving. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

What constitutes belief? It's a core question for our faith and our practices. We dive into it together, and hear a summer update from the crew! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

In John 8 and 9, Jesus declares himself the light of the world. Just as we need light to see, Jesus' light guides us on our journey. As you navigate this dark world, let Jesus be your guide, and he'll illuminate your path! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

What does Jesus mean when He says He is the bread of Life?... And what does your perfect summer vacay look like? Time to Get Talkin'! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

We look at many things in our world through our hopeful lense of who they can be. We strain to glean inspiration and equitability with ideas and people, and in the end, that way of looking at the world is easy, because in the end, it comes back to our judgement which we tend to... Agree with! But what does it look like to look TO Jesus for everything? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

The spirit convicts the world, and we talk about it! Also... What steak do you like? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we wrap up our series on John's witness to the Holy Spirit, we weave a thread from John 3:5 through John 8:31-32 into John 16:8-11. Come listen why the devil loses.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

What do you make of salvation? Are we just saved from sin? When do we know we are ready to venture into the world empowered by the Spirit? We talk through the tension of personal piety, and real world action! And... Ryan is sad because the Cubs are terrible! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

What does the Holy Spirit look like when it is "working" when it is alive and well in the believer? When Jesus visits a group of disciples shuttered in a locked room out of fear, he breaths the breath of God on them and tells them to go! Not to be overcome by fear, or hunker down, but do redeem them toward effectiveness for the kingdom... What are you doing? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we continue in our series "Breath of God," we see Jesus and Nicodemus interact. What do we make of the strange metaphors Jesus uses? What do we take away from the way that Jesus interacts with the Pharisees in the Biblical narrative? And What takeaways does it give us about how Jesus commons with US? Also... Baseball is sad right now... If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

When Jesus poses the idea to Nicodemus of being "Born Again," He cuts right to the point. When it comes to Jesus intersecting with our families and our values, we often desire for a comfortable separation, but Jesus calls us to a full surrender. Are you ready to be reborn? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Kairos is a prison ministry program bringing the Word of God to those who are incarcerated. Purvis has devoted many years to this ministry and has great insight on how the redeeming grace of our Lord can change hearts, even in the darkest of places like death row. Many societies might consider the prisoner a “lost cause” but Jesus never does, and every heart opened to his love is one that is changed for the better.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Amongst church people, we talk about Jesus a lot. We talk about God, or God the Father often. But... What's up with that Holy Spirit situation? Who is He? Who is He not? And why is is so weird to discuss Who the Holy Spirit is, and what He does? Let's talk! Also, Ryan discovers Chris and Kimberly hate the beach. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

In John's gospel, Jesus and the Holy Spirit work together in all that they do. To fully experience all that God has in store for us, we need to say yes to Jesus and to God's Spirit.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Today we hear about what God has done through our students. Many of these students grew up in our preschool, were confirmed in our church, and were baptized in our community! What an incredible testimony of faith, and God's grace that goes before us. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we react to Lo Aleman's message post Awaken retreat, we step back and ask the question, what is the accurate full picture of the gospel? How do we balance our "personal" salvation (if that is even something to cling to), verses tithing ourselves to what God is doing through humanity in reconciling it to himself? And does it matter?  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Welcome to KMC Lo Alaman! Lo came to lead our students in our weekend retreat called Awaken, and he brings to us a message on the Holiness of God, and how it travels out from the community of God.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Clint Wyllie is currently the lead pastor at Central Houston Methodist Church and previously an associate pastor here at Kingwood Methodist. We discuss how God asks us to trust Him, especially when we don't understand what the plan is. It is comfortable to sit and stay in the familiar, but we must overcome the fear of uncertainty and all the unknowns and trust the promise that God has for us.  In this journey, Clint has had the opportunity to visit with GMC churches in Tanzania through his role as a member of the Trinity Conference International Ministries Committee. We discuss the opportunities the GMC is creating to connect churches in the United States to churches across the world.

We start our episode with a riveting debate on how to eat an egg! Then! We dive in to discuss how Jesus reveals himself to us in the scripture and beyond.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we continue in Luke 24's post resurrection account, we continue to see Jesus's way of forgiving, restoring, and commissioning his followers. Who is Jesus to you? And do you trust his radical, extravagant love for YOU? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

It's crawfish season! Today Chris and Kimberly talk about the Road to Emmaus. God opened their eyes to witness the risen savior, and he can open ours as well. We discuss how connecting to God's Word connects us to a power unmatched to anything in our physical world, and it's all available to us through the Bible. So find a group, boil some crawfish (with or without mushrooms), and talk about Jesus!

As we return to a familiar text in Luke 24, we see how Jesus gently encounters others and opens their eyes! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Happy Easter! As we look at the resurrection story, Kimberly, Chris and Ryan consider, what about our world and our faith makes us search among non-transformative, non-Jesus things, for the very salvation and transformation that we desire? And... Which Easter basket candy gets you most excited!? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

The question that answers all problems. Quells all fears. The question through it all, is who is Jesus? On Easter Sunday, we aim to answer that question! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Today the gang talks about Palm Sunday, and the week it opens up. How are you planning to stay close to Jesus this week? And! For Palm Sunday specifically, how does our view of the role of children in worship, and in life show us our heart towards those most precious to Jesus? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

During Holy Week, Jesus begins his week in Jerusalem as a king, but by Friday, everything has changed. We witness how everyone turns away from him—the religious leaders, Jesus's closest friends, and even the very crowd who once cheered him on. This week, let's stay close to Jesus and not abandon him, so we can be ready to receive the grace and love of a God who has come to save us. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Kimberly Pellicore is the author of A Guide for Lewy Body Dementia Caregivers: Caring with Compassion.  Today we discuss the uncertainties that come with the diagnosis of Lewy Body and other dementia related diseases. Kimberly shares her journey through the caregiving process and how God's light kept shining a guiding light for her to follow even when the chaos of the disease threatened to shut it out. No darkness on earth can expel God's capacity to give live giving light, even in the darkest valleys of an incessant disease like dementia. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist  

Why do you doubt? Is a question that seems to ring right through our heart. But the takeaway from this story shouldn't be  Peter's lack of faith. But that when we step boldly towards Jesus. He will step toward us as well. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

"Oh you of little faith, why did you doubt?" The question of Jesus in Matthew 14:31 is one that seems to ring through our hearts. Why are we prone to doubt? What is the place of faith in full, or faith in part? Is it even belief if we doubt at all? We dive into it this week! Plus, the return of Ryan! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Where do you get your hope from? Today Chris and Kimberly discuss, with our very special guest, Jill Honeycutt (aka Chris's wife) how the man at the pool at Bethesda had his hope so focused on the healing power of the pool, that when offered healing from a different source, Jesus, he didn't know it was a possibility. How often do we focus on what we think will be the magic solution instead of turning to the one with infinite healing power? And do we think Ryan will ever come back and join us? Stay tuned to find out. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Who is Jesus? And how is following Jesus a lot like learning how to drive? Chris and Kimberly tread water while trying to hold down the fort until Ryan comes back and discuss how understanding who Jesus is only the first step in living a life that follows Jesus. So buckle up and maybe wear a helmet for this episode.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Elijah, seriously, what are you doing here? Chris and Kimberly (sans Ryan) discuss how we handle our disappointment when we follow God, but His results don't meet our expectations. We can feel alone and isolated with our blinders on, but we need to be more Paul-like and find the joy in all things, rejoicing in times of good and bad. God's doing lots of amazing things, so look around and find others to rejoice and worship with! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

On the short list of wild, mysterious, loaded scripture passages, Genesis 3 has to be at the top of the list. But what does the narrative show us about free will? What does it say about love? What are things we can lean into? And what are good things to stay away from? Also, Kimberly and Chris bond over their shared hatred of Valentines Day. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

On our debut episode of Overcoming Certainty, Kimberly talks with Nanette Lynch and Marla Wortman about J's House, a residential treatment center for boys. We talk about the difficulties in the foster care system and how God has worked in each of their lives to bring them together to co-found this ministry. Marla sits as the Executive Director and Nanette is a member of the board of J's House. We hope you enjoy this episode and find something to be curious about. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

When we talk about abiding in Spiritual disciplines, sometimes that brings up our best experiences, and our worst experiences with the Lord. Both times where we "felt" like we were doing enough, and times we "felt" we weren't. How do we think critically about placing the disciplines spiritually? And Kimberly takes us on a wild goose chase of old wives tales. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

In 1 Timothy 4:7-10 we explore what it means to reject what weakens us, train in what strengthens our faith and anchor our hope to the living God.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we continue in our abide series, we look at how we abiding in the Spirit in our giftings. What is the point of our gifts? How do we protect from abuse or pride in our giftings? And where in the Bible do we even talk about gifts!? Also, the crew talks through their favorite eats from Super Bowl weekend! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Today we talk about Abiding in God's gifting for us. Much is made of what we are supposed to do with our giftings! But what if it's as simple as showing us that the Spirit of God really desires to do something THROUGH YOU! Let's dive in together! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we continue in our abide series, we look at 1 Corinthians 15, where Paul encourages us to believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for salvation NOW. But as we live our lives here on earth, what are the gospels we believe in? What do we practically believe in when it comes to making our lives worthwhile and whole?  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we continue to discuss what Abiding in Christ looks like, Paul lays out an easy 3 step answer in 1 Corinthians. Paul preaches a gospel that saves, that is received, and is centered around the person of Jesus.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

Chris and Kimberly, without the always elusive Ryan, discuss why Jesus removed the blind man from the village before healing him in Mark 8. Do we have places or things we need to remove to be closer to Jesus? Kimberly also surprises Chris with a discussion from an article she recently read on how AI could affect the future of religion and people's relationship with God.  If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we continue to talk through our series on abiding, we talk about what it looks like to abide in Christ. And how how we use our words might be the truest reflection of who we are in the Lord. If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

When we are anchored to Jesus we are then able to abide with him through the storms of life. What are you anchored to? If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist

As we preview a new year and a new sermon series, we talk about Abiding in Christ. That's a word that generally only appears in the Bible, but what does it look like in our life? And is there wisdom in bit-sizing Christianity? How do we balance a faith we can "accomplish" verse a faith that we "aspire to"? Lets talk about it! If you prefer to listen, stream, and/or watch, join us and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kingwoodmethodist