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When we begin our walk with the Lord, we do not come close to reflecting His availability, love, fairness, patience, forgiveness, mercy, faith in our children, helpfulness and faithfulness, but as we yield ourselves to the ministry of Jesus through the presence of His Holy Spirit in our everyday walk, He gently reveals those areas of our lives that blur God’s image within us, and then helps us to...

Walking in the Spirit is what brings about transformation in the believers life that others can see. Today many have substituted justice for Jesus, and religiosity for a real relationship with God through Jesus Christ. In doing so they have a confrontational form of religion, but none of the power that is present in the lives of those who live and walk in the Spirit. The major divisions in Christe...

The Fruit of the Spirit is the evidence of the Holy Spirit’s transforming power working in our lives. If we are lacking in the areas of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control, it’s not the fruit we need to be working on, but our relationship with God. The Fruit of the Spirit is the evidence of the Holy Spirit’s presence in our lives. The fruit is...

There are three aspects of the ministry of the Holy Spirit to us that we can mirror in ministering to others. The Holy Spirit ministers to us powerfully through Presence, Listening and Helping. If you know someone who is hurting, it takes no prior training or great knowledge to minister to them in these ways.

Through God's Prevenient Grace He brings us to the point of Justification, or Salvation. When the Holy Spirit enters your life at that point, His presence itself begins to bring about a change in your life. You are aware that He is with you wherever you go and whatever you do. As you live your life in His presence, as His, you find yourself giving as much of yourself as you know to as much of God...

On this Pentecost Sunday, we review the facts that being filled with the Holy Spirit was a normative experience for the early church, that it is just as important today as it was 2000 years ago, and that the Holy Spirit is just as available today as He was on the day of Pentecost. In this sermon Rev. McMahon reviews the marks of this experience, how to receive the Holy Spirit, and why many who had...

God worked concurrently, yet separately in Peter's and Cornelius' lives preparing them for their meeting at Cornelius' house. Neither of them was even aware of the other until God brought about this divine appointment which would change their lives and the world by introducing the Gospel to the Gentiles. The distinctive traits that both Cornelius and Peter shared were a love of God and a willingne...

Your calling is different from Peter's, but it is just as vital to the world. It is through both our successes and failures that the Lord is making you who you are meant to be in Him and for Him. It is much more through your failures than your successes that the Lord can help you become who your are meant to be, and be freed from the things that are hindering you.

Peter utterly failed his Lord and himself when he denied the Lord on the night of His arrest. How could he ever face the Lord or his fellow disciples after that? What he didn't understand was that he needed to fail in this particular way to be prepared to be the fisher of men the Lord called him to be. He had to fail before he could grow. Are you, like Peter at a place in your spiritual life where...

We talk about it. We sing about it. It is embedded in our liturgy. Scripture is very clear about it. We long for the efficacious results it brings. Our life in Christ depends on it. Yet many find it hard, unacceptable or even repulsive to do; and that is to put our faith in the Blood of Jesus to release us from our sins.

There are many times we are disappointed in this world by empty promises. Jesus always keeps His word. He told His disciples He was going to be killed and rise again on the third day just as He began His final journey to Jerusalem. Knowing this, on Easter morning you would expect the disciples to be looking for an empty tomb and a Risen Lord. Instead, they were looking for His body. Why do you sup...

Was it the same crowd that cheered Jesus on Palm Sunday that jeered Him on Good Friday, or was there more than one crowd? Have you noticed the parallels between what happened during Holy Week and what is currently happening in our primary election process in both parties? Do you know the name of the Rich Young Ruler? Do you feel like there is something missing from your relationship with God? We e...

Jesus concludes His Sermon on the Mount with a warning that the choices we make in life effect us both in our time on earth and on into eternity. He doesn't condemn, but He sets before us the options and then leaves it up to us to choose. Will we choose life, or will we choose death? He lovingly advises us to choose life.

Do all paths really lead to God? As He approaches the end of The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says we take one of two paths in this life, and He warns that one leads to life, while the other leads to death. One is broad, the other is narrow. In this age where subjectivity and personal agency are touted as the path to happiness, Jesus offers us something much better.

So many try "that prayer thing" and then say, "It didn't work!" Are you one of those whose prayers seem to fall on deaf ears? Have you asked and not received? Have you been seeking and not found? Have you been knocking and the door hasn't opened? Want to know why? Find out in this latest sermon in the series "The Sermon on the Mount."

"Judge not" is one of the most popular sayings from the Bible in our time, and yet it is used by many in a way that is entirely out of context. It is used as a back-handed way of saying, "You have no right to say anything about how I live, or what I do." As we open our hearts to these words of Jesus, they call us to a fresh way of seeing people and relating to them.

Healing is something that is not talked about much today, and yet Jesus Himself pointed to the signs and wonders He performed to confirm to John's disciples that He was the Messiah they were waiting for, and God's Word tells us that healing is one of the signs that is to confirm the Gospel. We are instructed to anoint the sick with oil and pray for them that they might be healed. When we do, peopl...

If we're not supposed to worry about what we are going to eat, drink or wear, are we supposed to do nothing? Does God love me for who I am, or who I should be? What does Jesus mean when He says, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness? These questions and others are answered in this new sermon by Rev. McMahon. This is #23 in the series "The Sermon on the Mount."

What is the real reason we should forgive someone if they have really hurt us? Does God really expect us to forgive the big things that have hurt us deeply? What if I have difficulty forgiving? These questions and others are addressed in this latest sermon in Rev. McMahon's series, "The Sermon on the Mount."

Jesus said, "Pray like this." Then He gave us a template for prayer, not just some exact words to say. As we look at the 6 parts of the Lord's Prayer we not only see how we should pray, but we remember why we should "pray like this." In this sermon we examine the last three parts of The Lord's Prayer.

Jesus said, "Pray like this." Then He gave us a template for prayer, not just some exact words to say. As we look at the 6 parts of the Lord's Prayer we not only see how we should pray, but we remember why we should "pray like this." In this sermon we examine the first three parts of The Lord's Prayer.

Is it wrong to pray in public? How do I pray? Why is it so hard for some people to pray? We explore these questions and many more about prayer in this nineteenth sermon by Dr. Joel D. McMahon III in his series "The Sermon on the Mount,"

There are benefits to being the Lords. What are some of the things that bar us from Him and His benefits? We explore these things and others in this latest sermon from San Felipe UMC in historical San Felipe, Texas.

Paul said that in the last days some would have a form of godliness and deny its power. This appears to have become the norm in modern Christendom. How do people wind up having an outward form of godliness and denying its power? What can we do if we discover after honestly searching our lives we discover that we are in that number?

Everyone starts talking about world peace around Christmas, as if that is what Jesus came to bring. The peace Jesus offers is not world peace. The peace Jesus brings is not just the absence of conflict. It is peace on a different level altogether. How can I know the peace Jesus gives? We explore these things in this most recent sermon by Rev. Joel D. McMahon III, pastor of San Felipe United Method...