Manna for your Soul

Scripture: Leviticus 25: 1-19 In this message, we will reflect on how embracing the gift of rest allows us to be people of restoration, renewal, and wholeness. The Year of Jubilee teaches us about balance, equity, and kinship, celebrating that rest is a gift for all of God’s creation. 

Scripture: Genesis 2: 1-3 This four-week series explores the profound importance of rest in our lives. As we continue, we will learn how to find a healthy balance of rest, work, and play, understand the rhythm of rest modeled by God, and affirm that God has given everyone the gift of rest to be embraced. This message reflects the natural ebb and flow of our minds, bodies, and spirits, which God ha...

This four-week series explores the profound importance of rest in our lives. As we continue the series, we will learn how to find a healthy balance of rest, work, and play, understand the rhythm of rest modeled by God, and affirm that God has given everyone the gift of rest to be embraced. This message help us reflect on how to cultivate a healthy rhythm of rest, work, and play, recognizing that b...

This four-week series explores the profound importance of rest in our lives. We start with Elijah's experience of divine rest, learn how to find a healthy balance of rest, work, and play, understand the rhythm of rest modeled by God, and affirm that God has given everyone the gift of rest to be embraced. This message uses the story of Elijah to reflect on how God might help us be released into...

Worship Series: “Created for Connection” God created us for connection and community.  Drawing on the experiences of the early church in scripture, let us relearn how God leads us into lives of meaningful relationship with Godself and one another. The message: “Connection with Community” Scripture Lesson: Hebrews 10: 23-25 CEB In our loneliness, we often retreat from church and community.  We are...

Scripture: John 11: 1-7; 17-26 Today’s question is: “Will Purpose make me happy?” In a world that prioritizes “happiness,” God calls us into a more expansive vision of faith and flourishing.   

When we don’t have the answer to where we are going, we often feel like we are wandering and “wasting time.”  But with God, no time is wasted. In our wandering, God offers us an opportunity to explore new possibilities through acts of creativity, wonder, and play. Scripture: Exodus 16

Purpose is what we can do today. We must not only focus on the future but also the present. What do we have to offer right now , and who needs it? When we offer what we have now, we find – often to our surprise – that our purpose begins to come into focus.

Who Am I? That is today’s focus. We may feel like we are defined by our highs and lows, but first and foremost, we are defined by God’s love for us. God’s love promises to redeem our whole stories. It allows us to look back over our lives and see how all our experiences—good, bad, and in-between—can shape and clarify our purpose.

Scripture: Matthew 5: 13-16 Finding our purpose is discovering who God has uniquely created us to be and how our gifts can serve others at any moment.

Message preached at Tuckerton United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 14, 2024. Scripture: John 3: 1-9 Have you ever asked this question: Why am I here? Trying to discover the purpose of our lives can lead to a lot of questions: Who am I? Do I have a “calling”? What am I supposed to do with my life? What does purposeful living look like? Often, the world is all too ready to give us answers to thes...

Scripture: Jonah 1: 1-17 Jonah, called by God to share a message of grace and mercy, decided to run away from that calling. Still, God shared grace and mercy with Jonah, the same message God wanted him to share with Nineveh. Jonah thought he might run away from sharing the message, but in the end, he was running to God’s message of grace and mercy—the same way you and I are embraced by God’s love.

Scripture: Matthew 8: 23-27 In the face of a storm, Jesus is sleeping while his disciples are struggling to keep the boat afloat. The storm is hammering the fishing boat, the disciples are screaming, the boat is rocking hard, and Jesus is sleeping. Not bothered by all the commotion happening around him. He was in a deep sleep. The same happens to many of us who have a deep sleep. Things can happen...

Scripture: Matthew 7: 7-12

Scripture: Exodus 14: 15-16, 21-22 God makes a way for you to walk in faith and continue to serve with hope. 

Scripture: Acts 27: 13-26 In the storms of life, our faith is the anchor that will keep us centered in God’s love and help us not to drift away from God’s love and hope. 

Scripture: John 15: 9-17 Friends, we continue our Eastertide journey. A 50-day celebration leading towards Pentecost, where we celebrate the good news that in Christ’s death and resurrection, we, and all creation, are continually being made new by God’s love and saving grace. As we continue to reflect on Chapter 15 of John, we will listen to God’s calling to love one another. How we live and love...

Scripture: Isaiah 43: 18-19 Friends, we continue our Eastertide journey. A 50-day celebration leading towards Pentecost, where we celebrate the good news that in Christ’s death and resurrection, we, and all creation, are continually being made new by God’s love and saving grace. Today, we continue reflecting on the new God is doing in and through our lives. God can transform the desert areas of yo...

Friends, welcome to our Lenten journey through the valley. Just as Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days, so too can we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness, as we face hardships, grief, temptations, and injustices.  During our lenten journey, we will discover what it means to wander these parts of life in honesty with God through the practice of lament. We will learn how crying...

Friends, welcome to our Lenten journey through the valley. Just as Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days, so too can we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness, as we face hardships, grief, temptations, and injustices.  During our lenten journey, we will discover what it means to wander these parts of life in honesty with God through the practice of lament. We will learn how crying...

Friends, welcome to our Lenten journey through the valley. Just as Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days, so can we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness as we face hardships, grief, temptations, and injustices.  During our lenten journey, we will discover what it means to wander these parts of life honestly with God through the practice of lament. We will learn how crying out to...

Scripture: Judges 5: 1-9 Heroes do not just belong in comic books and blockbuster movies. We have them in real life too – people whose courage, strength, and resilience we can look up to as models for our own lives. In this summer series, we will meet three outstanding heroes from our faith story. Their readiness to listen to God’s voice in their lives and act on it inspires us to do the same. Tod...

We celebrated Christmas in July! Here is the message using John 3:16

The Bible is full of stories of redemption, change, and hope. Through four of those stories, we will discover how faith in a Risen Jesus can transform our lives for the better here and now. No matter how big or how small we fall, God outstretches God’s hand, ready to raise us up. Today's story we find in the Gospel of John, chapter 21, verses 15 to 19, is the story of Peter. The love and forgi...

The Bible is full of stories of redemption, change, and hope. Through four of those stories, we will discover how faith in a Risen Jesus can transform our lives for the better here and now. No matter how big or how small we fall, God outstretches God’s hand, ready to raise us up. Today's story we find in the Gospel of John, chapter 20, verses 24 to 29, is the story of Thomas. The journey from...