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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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Exploring the Nature of God: God Is Creator
3d ago00:19:22Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon Podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt asks what was the last thing you saw that brought you a sense of awe? What is the main point of Genesis 1? Does thinking about or believing in God as creator ask anything of you as an individual or us as humans? If so, what? If the interpretive trajectory of the sermon on Genesis 1 (and 2) is new or different to you, what other questions or interpretations do you have?
Transcribe →God Is Our Creator
1w ago00:09:48Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday Morning Podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen reads part of the creation story in Genesis 1. She asks how we are taking time to be in creation and how we care for it. She share a little bit about the upcoming sermon series that looks at the same themes our children explored during Vacation Bible School.
Transcribe →Raise the Question: But What If I Don't Want to Answer?
1w ago00:20:03Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen shares part of her calling story and how it is not always a straight forward path. What does it mean to discern God’s calling when you feel like you already have your life all figured out? What ways might God be nudging- or yanking- you out of your comfort zone? What would be one easy way and one harder way to respond to God’s calling today? Is there an “age limit” … too young or too old … to be called by God? What if my calling conflicts with my existing plans?
Transcribe →Do We Have to Answer Our Call Now?
2w ago00:10:23Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Monday Morning Podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen shares about getting a call, but not wanting to answer it right away. Have you had a calling like this? She shares how we are given many callings throughout our lives that may or may not come when we are ready for them. There is no such thing as being too old, too settled, or too stuck in our ways to answer God's call.
Transcribe →Raise the Question: Answer The Call
2w ago00:19:18Tap to summarizeWelcome to our Sunday sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen shares some of the stories of women who have been influential in her call to ministry and what each one instilled in her. What barriers are keeping us from answering God's call on our lives?
Transcribe →Calling: Are You Listening?
3w 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
3w 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
May 2500:13:04Tap 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
May 2400:25:31Tap 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
May 1800:12:07Tap 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
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