Midway Christian Church Sermon Podcast

Part 4: The 50 Great Days of Easter, April 28, 2024 "Plastic Jesus: Real Faith in A Synthetic World" Psalm 23 Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY ⁠www.midwaychristian.org

Part 3: The 50 Great Days of Easter, April 21, 2024 "Beloved Community" John 10: 11-18; Psalm 23 Guest Preacher: Rev. Katherine Alexander, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY www.midwaychristian.org

Part 2: The 50 Great Days of Easter, April 14, 2024 "Witnesses to These Things" Luke 24: 36b-48 Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY www.midwaychristian.org

Part 1: The 50 Great Days of Easter, April 7, 2024 "Have Life in His Name" John 20: 19-31  Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY www.midwaychristian.org

Part 7: God is Doing Amazing Things! Are You UP For It? March 31, 2024 Rather than focus on the busyness of church, we are called to focus on the business of the empty tomb by embracing the knowledge that Light and Love overcame the darkness, that God is still working, still writing the story of love and grace that transforms us into the people God created us to be. "Look Up" Mark 16: 1-...

Part 6: God Is Doing Something Amazing! Are You UP For It? March 24, 2024 On this Palm Sunday, John is inviting us, calling us, as Jesus’ followers, to sit up and observe, to sit up and see, to sit up and take notice of the coming of the Kingdom of God. For it will come to us as we gather around the table at the Last Supper. For it will come to us as we gather beneath the cross at Golgotha. For it...

Part 5: God is Doing Amazing Things! Are You UP For It? March 17, 2024 The author of John understands that it is only through the act of Jesus being lifted up, that we as his followers, as his disciples, as the people of God, can see the significance of that moment upon our lives, upon our faith, and upon our world. "Lift Up" John 12: 20-33 Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Ch...

Part 4: God is Doing Something Amazing! Are You UP for it? March 10, 2024 The light which John talks about in today’s scripture is the Light of the World. It is an invitation to allow our journeys through life to serve as a witness for others. Rather than following the narrative of this world that tells us to hide our imperfections, to deny our fully human selves, it invites us to share our light...

Part 3: God is Doing Something Amazing! Are You UP for It? March 3, 2024 We rise up because we know who holds us and surrounds us with love and grace; because we are grounded in the peace which passes all understanding; and because of God’s enduring presence in our lives. We rise up as a testimony to God’s grace and Spirit moving in and among our world, bringing healing and wholeness. We rise to t...

Part 2: God is Doing Something Amazing! Are You UP For It? February 25, 2024 As disciples of Jesus, we are given an invitation to participate in the work of building up God’s Beloved Community by taking up our cross and following Jesus. This invitation is a reminder that our faith is not a lifestyle choice or passing fade. It is a calling which shapes everything about us; our words, our actions, o...

Part 1: God is Doing Something Amazing! Are You UP For It? February 18, 2024 Lent is often known as a time of giving something up in order to make room in our lives for spiritual pursuits. Rather than just “giving up” in Lent, the scriptures ask us to consider all that Jesus is “up to” and all that he asks us to be up to in his name. Instead of bemoaning what we can’t do, or used to do, in a cultu...

The Gospel of Mark Chapter 1 (Part 4) February 11, 2024 Being a disciple of Christ takes willingness – a willingness to invite, to allow, and to open ourselves up to the power of transformation that the good news has upon our lives; a willingness to effect change in our lives, in our communities, and in others; a willingness to cross borders and engage issues of racism, sexism, and discrimination....

The Gospel of Mark Chapter 1 (Part 3) January 28, 2024 The Beloved Community that Jesus taught to his disciples is inclusive and authentic, and not like the systems of our world today which are designed to separate and divide. This Beloved Community shows us that there is a new way to live, a new way to be in relationship with one another, and a new way to understand community. "A New Teachin...

The Gospel of Mark Chapter 1 (Part 2) January 21, 2024 As a Disciples of Christ congregation, we recognize that we are all ministers. The pastor preaches the sermon, but all of us are ministers for the church. Today, on Laity Sunday, we discuss the findings, thus far, from the Thriving Congregations initiative that Midway Christian Church joined in 2020.This initiative “seeks to expand the relatio...

The Gospel of Mark, Chapter 1 (Part 1) January 14, 2024 The baptismal waters which wash us clean are the same waters of justice which roll down and shape the landscape. shape the people, and shape our relationships into the Beloved Community of God. These waters of justice, waters of life, waters of our baptism remind us that our primary identity is as God’s Beloved in whom God is well pleased. &q...

It's A Wonderful Life (Part 4), December 24, 2023 When we gather on this fourth Sunday of Advent, we come to hear the familiar, beloved stories of God’s love dwelling among us, to remind us that as people of faith there is a different way to be, a different way to be in relationship with one another, a different way to be in community with one another. "Treasure It!" Luke 2: 1-20 Rev...

It's A Wonderful Life (Part 3), December 17, 2023 As people of faith, we have been given words of joy from our God who loves us more than we could ever imagine, words which remind us over and over again, that when it seems like the darkness is closing in, like we don’t have the strength to carry on, that is exactly when the Kingdom of God breaks in and shakes us up, wakes us up to the hope, to...

It's A Wonderful Life (Part 2) December 10, 2023 We have been given the promise that in the days to come, our future will contradict our present, that one day, all nations will stream to the Lord’s House and be ready, be willing to listen, to hear, to be taught, to be immersed in God’s way of love and grace, that one day, power and might, greed and money will not be the narrative which drives...

It's A Wonderful Life (Part 1) December 3, 2023 Advent is a time when we as Christians wait, when we hear once again the promises given to us, when we expectantly hope for Christ’s coming again, when we anticipate the fulfilment of God’s Belove Community here on Earth through the birth of Jesus Christ. While we wait, we are called to find meaning, to find purpose in the everyday moments of our...

November 26, 2023 Using our Bibles and our experiences we, as Disciples of Christ, are called to proclaim to the world who we know Jesus to be. He is our Christ, our King, our Lord of Lords. He is the one who died upon the cross so that we might live. As Disciples of Christ, we as individuals are the authorities when it comes to matters of theolog and are called to make profound statements of fait...

November 19, 2023 On this Thanksgiving Sunday, we gather to praise God and give thanks for His blessings and gifts. As we will learn, Luke’s message today challenges us to think about what it means to say thank you to those who extend to us acts of kindness offers of grace. "With Thanksgiving" Luke 17: 11-19 Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY www.midwaychristi...

November 12, 2023 "Roads of Transformation" Acts 9: 1-9 Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Kris Bentley of Lexington Theological Seminary Midway Christian Church, Midway KY www.midwaychristian.org

Good Grief (Part 5) November 5, 2023 By talking about grief within our community of faith, we begin to realize that “when we bring space and warmth to our painful emotions, they are free to arise, do their little dance, and move on. We also know that by bringing space and warmth to our painful emotions, we are also creating room for the presence of God in our midst.” We are opening ourselves up to...

Good Grief (Part 4) October 29, 2023 We can hold on to the promise that God is there for us and that God is there with us. And as people of faith in a true, authentic relationship with God, we can hold God accountable. We have every right to “remind God of God’s faithfulness, to remind God of God’s involvement in the world, to plead with God to change the world, and to believe strongly enough in o...

Good Grief (Part 3) October 22, 2023 Our sacred text constantly reminds us that our God is big enough to handle our doubts, to handle our fears, to handle our worries, to handle our anger, to handle our questions and still…and still be in relationship with us, and still show us grace upon grace upon grace. "God, Why Are You Punishing Me?" Job 3 Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christia...