Apex United Methodist Church Podcast

Pastor Gray Southern - Exodus 20:1-17, God shares with Moses 10 Commandments for how he wants his chosen people to live their lives.  Join us as we examine these commandments and their real world implications. 

Pastor Gray Southern - God's Glory in Tough Places - Sometimes our life circumstances are just too much. We get frustrated. We grumble. We lash out. We complain. Join us as we hear the story of a people who have hit their limit and a God who loves them through it.

Pastor Daeho Kang - We talk about God being "all powerful" but how often do we really get to see that power in action? In this part of the Exodus story, Moses stretches out his hand over the sea and the Lord pushes the walls of water.  Join us as we marvel at God's power and sheer determination to deliver us. 

Pastor Gray Southern - Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 - Moses followed God's calling, but it wasn't easy. Pharaoh was so resistant that God sent plague after plague. The final plague was the death of the firstborn with Israelites being instructed to mark their doorposts in blood.  Join us as we learn about the Passover and what ways God is still delivering us today.

Pastor Gray Southern - Exodus 3:1-15 Have you ever heard God talk to you directly? This week we will discuss Moses' encounter with God in the burning bush.  Together we will think through what this story teaches us about who God is and what God is calling us to do.  

Pastor Gray Southern - Exodus 1:8-22 - Sometimes things feel so bleak and terrible, you can't help but ask, "where is God?" In this story, God isn't even mentioned.  Not even once. And yet God is still at work.  Join us as we grapple with the mysterious ways in which God works. 

Pastor Daeho Kang - Pentecost Sunday, reading from the book of Acts 2:1-13. This date marks the culmination of the Easter season, celebrated exactly 50 days (inclusive of Easter Sunday) after Easter and commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ, as described in the New Testament. Red is the liturgical color used to represent the tongues of fi...

Pastor Gray Southern - Acts 1:1-11 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.

Pastor Gray Southern - John 14:15-21

Youth Sunday - May 3, 2026 - My Lighthouse Messages from Katherine Sousa and Emmett Balleydier

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - Psalm 23

Our K-5th Grade Children’s Choirs presented the musical “ Storms ” by Mark Burrows on Sunday, April 19 at the 9:35 & 11:00 a.m. services in the CLC Gym. They reminded us that no matter what storms come our way, we are loved and never alone!

Mark 9:30-37 - Rev. Ben Williams from Methodist Home for Children brings the word at 8:15 a.m. worship.

Pastor Daeho Kang - 1st Sunday after Easter, John 20:24-31, Seeing ourselves in Thomas, doubting and needing proof. We learn about Jesus meeting us in our doubts and faith.

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - Together, we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ! 

On Palm Sunday our Chancel Choir and Chamber Orchestra present the cantata "Once Upon a Tree" by Pepper Choplin at 8:15 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Traditional Services. This work is the sequel to the Christmas Cantata and continues Luke's account of the final earthly days of Jesus Christ before his death and resurrection. Recording is from 11 a.m. service.*

Bishop Connie Shelton - This message joyfully called us to live out the humility of Christ in Philippians 2:1–8, especially during this Lenten season, by releasing control and embracing the freedom found in trusting God. Drawing on the “let them” perspective from Mel Robbins, we are invited to let go of striving and comparison so we can fully reflect Jesus’ selfless love. It’s a powerful reminder...

Pastor Daeho Kang -  Just when we think we have it all figured out–the right job, the right routine, the right way of doing things–Jesus comes in and upends our certainty, always moving us into deeper truth, justice, and relationship.

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - We can work for weeks, months, even years to arrive at a certain point in life, our own “Promised Land.” But sometimes the Promised Land is not what we envisioned. Sometimes we don’t even make it there. And even when we do, the Promised Land is not the end of the journey. How can we let God reshape our vision of both the destination and the journey so that we can fin...

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - Like the Israelites who were freed from Egypt only to find themselves without drinkable water, we too can find ourselves freed from one trouble only to be met with another. God invites us to shift perspective and find our freedom in relationship with God.

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - When we are drowning in problems,it can be tempting to think we can solve them all if we just try hard enough. In Lent, we are reminded that we are only human; to move through our struggles, we must turn to a power far greater than ours.

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - At the end of the day, we turn out the lights and turn it over to God. In this passage that tells us not to worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself, we are invited to find rest in God. We all know this is easier said than done. Join as we grapple with worry and how to have faith in the midst of it.

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - The very first miracle Jesus performs in John's Gospel is turning water into wine at a wedding party.  There is something to be said for the place of fun in life and in the life of faith.  Join us as we discuss what a bit of holy fun can look like. 

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - In John's account of the calling of the disciples, Jesus asks the probing question, "What are you looking for?"  Join us as we talk about our work as vocation and the way our work does, and does not, answer the question that Jesus poses.

Pastor Laura Katherine Stern - On this Baptism of the Lord Sunday, we can't help but marvel that even Jesus was baptized.  Jesus sets the example for us.  Our own daily washing is a reminder of the goodness and grace that washes over us in baptism.