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Kearney First UMC Podcasts
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Listen to Kearney First United Methodist Church’s Sunday sermons for thought provoking and uplifting messages or check out our weekly ponderings about the sermon, upcoming events, or interviews with members of the congregation.
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Calling: Are You Listening?
3d ago00:09:49Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday Morning Podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen shares a little bit about our upcoming series. Each of us receive a call from God, how do you answer this call?
Transcribe →Connected In Joy
4d ago00:26:52Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon Podcast! Today, things were a little different from a regular Sunday. Our Annual Conference finished this weekend and Pastors Matt and Jo Ellen along with a laity member, Michelle, share about their experiences during conference. They ask, are you watching for God's joy? Will you share your joy?
Transcribe →Psalm 100 and Praying with Observation
1w ago00:13:04Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday morning podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt invites us to pray Psalm 100 with observation. Praise does not spring from a delusion that things are better than they are, but rather from the human capacity for joy. Are our prayer definitions too small if we think we can only pray one way?
Transcribe →Equipping Us For Witness
2w ago00:25:31Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt invites us to ponder these questions: There is a significantly mystical quality to how scripture and we speak of the Holy Spirit. Does this mysticism bring you freedom, frustration, joy, or something else? Why? How far, or in whom, does the Holy Spirit’s work and presence go, do you believe? Why do you believe this? What is a gift the Holy Spirit has given you for the good of all?
Transcribe →Psalm 46
2w ago00:12:07Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday Morning podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt reads through Psalm 46 and invites us to ponder a few questions. When have we experienced God being a present help in times of trouble? When have we experienced times of trouble and felt like God was not our refuge or strength? In what ways does God end violence through Jesus? In what ways might God through Jesus call us to end violence in ways Jesus did? Extra resource: United Methodist Social Principles: The Political Community
Transcribe →How Do We Know: When There Is No Clear Message?
3w ago00:18:04Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen looks at a hard scripture for graduates today. Life has lots of lemons. Some are good lemons that we can make into lemonade, others are not so good that we may struggle with. What do we do with our lemons? Have there been times in your life when you did not know where your life was going? Ponder a time in life when the path was much clearer, when you saw this from the “end of the journey” instead of the start. How does hindsight help us ponder the future?
Transcribe →A Prayer for Graduates and Seeking God
3w ago00:12:27Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday Podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen offers a prayer for all of our graduates from little preschoolers through to doctoral students. She encourages all of us to live into God's Will and lean on God in all stages of our lives.
Transcribe →How Do We Know: When Things Are Overwhelming
4w ago00:23:43Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt invites us to think of times when others have offered us advice. Did you take that advice right away? Did you think about it for a while? Did you ask others for their opinions? Pastor Matt challenges us to foster relationships of grace and humility with one another so we may discover God guiding us to whole and beautiful lives together.
Transcribe →Taking His Yoke
May 400:12:57Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday morning podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt asks how do we take Jesus' yoke upon us? How do we learn from Him? Do we trust Jesus to be gentle and humble in heart like He says He is?
Transcribe →When You're Finding Your Calling - Confirmation Sunday
May 300:17:02Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon Podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen reminds us that God calls each of us by name. When God speaks, do we listen? Our confirmation students are a gift to our church and the world. We are so proud of them and the steps they've made in their faith journey! Pastor Jo Ellen shares some of the letters the confirmands have written reflecting on why they wanted to be confirmed.
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