Katy First Family Podcast

This week starts of our annual stewardship worship series. This year we are talking about what it means to be Joy Full and the fullness of joy in the gift of community. Also, Pastor Mark tries to guess what is the name of a bar versus the name of a church!

We talk about what it means to fight like Jesus instead of fighting fire with fire and how the way you make peace matters for the peace you want to make.

This week we dive into our new worship series, Everyday Peacemakers, looking at where peace begins, the practice of seeing, and the practice of immersing. What does it mean to draw close to our neighbors and why is it such an important part of being peacemakers?

This week we are confronted by the words of Jesus that we must take up our cross and loss our lives to save them. We'll talk about what that means and how being a bunch of dust-covered losers actually is the way to joy and flourishing.

What does it mean for the church to be the answer to our prayer, Lord, help? This week we talk about an unholy confluence, the things that try to crush us, and how we are invited to be part of God's great work unlocking goodness, freedom, and flourishing for all people in all places.

Pastors Mark and Becca ask the hard questions like- what kind of dog would a finance bro have, does Jesus have a plan or does he just need a snickers bar? This week we dive into Matthew 15: 21-28 and talk about the story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman.

Back to school, chaos, and what it means to trust the One who brings order, beauty, and life from it all

Everyone is called to ministry and equipped by the Holy Spirit to do good works not for the benefit of the church but for the common good. This week we talk about affirming those gifts in ourselves and others, the blessing of giving ourselves away, and the joy of working together for the common good.

This week we talk about what it means for us to find identity in our role as witnesses. We also talk about the delight and curiosity found all throughout creatures and creation as well as the freedom that comes from offering our presence to others. Click here if you have questions you'd like to us to tackle on the podcast this summer.

This week we talk about what it means to be a people called priests and what voices we listen to as we navigate through this faithful life.

This week we talk about group chats, what it means to be a United Methodist, and our best advice for graduating seniors and parents.

As we continue our series, we talk about the purpose and importance naming something can give it, like a moon crater called Carroll. We also dive deeper into the beauty and work involved in the calling to care for our families and how this, and other acts of caretaking, actually changes us. Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon K Evans

In our new worship series, " A People Called" we talk about some of the different names and callings we may have. We start out this week with A People Called Good and talk about what it means for us to be made in the sacred image of God, called good by God, and called to good by God.

We're reveling in some Easter season joy as we talk about the beautiful moments in Holy Week and Easter Sunday, and what it means to be resurrection people here and now.

This week we celebrate our 100th episode by talking about the celebration of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, or Palm Sunday! We also dig deeper what kind of King Jesus is, what power really is, and the freedom that we've learned and experienced looking at the life and ministry of Jesus before the cross.

Some of our favorite Bible stories are the wild, weird, and totally unexpected and the scripture from worship this week is no different. We talk a look at the story of Lazarus, his death and resurrection, and what it we learn about who God is through the example Jesus gives of resurrection before the cross.

After a week off for Spring Break, we catch up with our Before the Cross worship series talking about both what it means for Jesus to bear our sins and what is the good news before the cross.

What is salvation and what does it mean to be "saved" before the cross? This week we talk about what's "saving us" right now and what it means for the saving work of God to be happening here and now.

What is forgiveness and what does it mean for God to forgive us before Jesus goes to the cross? As we start the season of Lent we talk about the life and ministry of Jesus "Before the Cross". We talk about forgiveness as a way, or condition, of living in our faith and what that can look like for us as individuals, families, and communities.

Today is Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, a somber season of reflection, repentance, and preparation for Holy Week and Easter. We talk about this past Sunday and the Transfiguration of Jesus, when his full divinity is revealed in dazzling light and with a voice from heaven. In this scripture we see the good news of God revealed and we carry this truth into this new season of Lent, and every se...

As we wrap up our Off Course worship series, we discuss the beauty of living fully present in the now. By "not wasting the music" we can enjoy the powerful and active presence of God around us all the time and share that gift with those around us too.

Dr. Ashely Boggan, the General Secretary for the Commission on Archives and History for The United Methodist Church, was our Coen Conference speaker and gave an inspiring and thought-provoking sermon Sunday about what it means to say the Methodists Make History. We discuss social holiness, how our faith is what we practice not just what we profess, and how we can meet the moment we are in now.

Disruptions abound in life- from icy cold fronts moving across the country to everyday "speed bumps". As we continue our conversation about being Off Course, we look at Matthew 5 and what the Beautitudes can show us about who God is and the kind of disruption that comes from the Kingdom of God drawing near to us now.

It's easy to get dangerously off-course if you don't have good guardrails, or boundaries. But how can we know when and where to set a boundary and when to break through them? Jesus provides a good example of what it means to withdraw invites us to live lightly in the "unforced rhythms of grace".

As we continue in our Off Course sermon series, we talk about the baptism of Jesus and what it means for us as the Body of Christ. The waters of baptism are a place of forgiveness and repentance, as well as a place of freedom and renewal. And they are the place we can always return to because of the faithfulness of God.