Sellersburg UMC Podcast

Sunday August 21, 2016 Luke 16:19-31 Do you still enjoy celebrating your birthday? Or is it a day that reminds you how you came up short from the past year. Are you fighting regret? I don't want you to wish that you ha cared more for the people around you if you had just seen them. I don' want you to think, I wish I had listened to God's prophets and to Jesus. I don't ever want you to think, I wish I'd had the courage to live a life in which my actions were more in line with my beliefs. Jesus short story invites us to step out of regret. Although we make mistakes, Jesus provides us an opportunity for fresh start. The warning, if we expend everything on ourselves then there is nothing left in our heavenly treasury. Today we must put we must put our love to work in others.

August 14, 2016 Luke 18:9-14 How would you evaluate the handling of your heart? the heart of others? Jesus short story today speaks of God's divine grace which cannot be limited by our dislike of those we deem as "bad". Who is good? Who is bad? We all need Jesus. We all need turning. We all need to be serving in love.

August 7, 2016 David Moore shares his testimony about how seeds have been planted in his life and how God has brought those to life.

July 31, 2016 Matthew 13:45-46 What is most valuable in your life?

July 24 Luke 15:11-32 Welcome to Short Stories by Jesus. This story is often called the Prodigal Son. But honestly there are two lost boys in the story. Which one sounds more like you?

June 19, 2016 1 Kings 19:1-11 Elijah experienced a season of stress, emotional turmoil, discouragement, and fear in his ministry. We can certainly relate to these emotions moving through our own life. But God provides the sustenance we need to carry on with the purpose for which we are designed. To renew our faith God prescribes a retreat, to rest, eat, hike, so that we will certain see what God is doing and hear that we are loved and called.

Special guest Deleen Holladay shares about her marathon preparation in terms of exercise and nutrition and she relates that physical training to her spiritual regiment training.

June 12, 2016 Genesis 2:4-9, 15-17 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 God defines the role of humanity to be fruitful in producing and multiplying the ways of God on earth. In other words, we are to be chefs of God's fruit salad. God has supplied us with many good ingredients to be faithful in our work. But we insist on putting the one poisonous ingredient in the mix, our own self sufficiency. Today's message challenges us to trust on and lean on God and allow God's good fruit to produced in us.

June 5, 2016 Exodus 16:1-15 Today we began a new sermon series about stories from the Bible that involve food. In today's story the Israelites complain about their lack of food. God provides manna, the bread from heaven. How do we complain today our lack? In times of crisis we turn to an imaginary past and we give up on the future. In what ways is God truly providing constant blessings? When you wake up and look at your day ask yourself, "What does this day hold?" I hope that God's word will inspire you to answer, "Today is a great gift and God supplies me with everything I need!"

May 29, 2016 Joshua 4:1-9 On this Memorial Day, guest speaker Bill Koehler invites us to remember: - To remember God's word - to remember act's of sacrifice - to remember wrongs done so we will not repeat them. Bill shares some excellent history, helping us to remember as a way to grow our faith moving into the future.

May 22, 2016 Romans 1:16 On this Youth Sunday, Lily Sutherlin asks us to consider what is limiting our freedom in worship. How do we become less ashamed of who God is calling us to be? Are we afraid of what God will think or what other people with think of our actions?

May 15, 2016 Acts 2:1-13 On this Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the Birthday of the church. But this is a dangerous party, because with the arrival of the Holy Spirit our faith has moved from private to public, from quiet to boisterous, from safe to daring, for us and now for the world.

May 8, 2016 Proverbs 31 The Bible provides many portraits of mothers. Some parent with incredible faith and devotion while others with selfish desires. I am thankful the Bible portrays mothers in need of grace. Proverbs 31 describes an idealistic mother. God's greatest desires is that mothers, and all of us influencing others in the faith, will be a reflection of Him in the world.

April 24, 2016 Acts 2:42-47 Worship is an act of community. Our fourth prayer posture is that of a hand shake. In worship we are united in a common mission and vision and we discover the love of Christ in and through the love we have four each other.

May 1, 2016 Isaiah 6:1-8 We conclude our sermon series on the postures of worship with Giving Hands. In worship, each of us is called to find our place of ministry in the world. Worship is... a profound awareness of the holy, that leads us to the shattering reality that we are nothing, but Christ is everything, and he is readying us to serve him. Today we honor United Methodist Women who have responded to the call to serve through their experience of worship.

March 6, 2016 Luke 5:27-32 In the time of Jesus, your family or group was central to your identity and participation in the community. Your people determined if you were considered dirty or clean. Jesus came to inaugurate the upside kingdom where boundaries around tribe or racial divides were cut down. In 2016 their is great racial and religious tension and fear surrounding the stranger and the foreigner. Who are we keeping to keep out that Jesus is trying to invite in?

February 28, 2016 Luke 6:27-36 In a culture of getting even and lending expecting more in return Jesus teaches the upside down virtues of forgiveness and mercy. What does it look like to combat revenge in today?

February 21, 2016 Luke 4:1-13 We have all known wilderness times when we feel disconnected and alone and are easy prey to temptations. Sometimes temptation is not to engage in bad behavior but its the urging to do something good but without God's help, outside of God's direction for your life. How do you stand guard of temptations?