St. Paul's United Methodist Church

We begin a new sermon series, called "What United Methodists Believe," with a look at the Trinity.

On Christmas Eve, we look at "A Christmas Carol."

In this sermon, we look at the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas." What do we do when our plans for Christmas do not work out as we expect?

In this sermon, we look at the movie "Home Alone" to see what it has to teach us about God.

We continue our Advent sermon series, "Christmas at the Movies," with a look at the 2018 cartoon movie adaptation of "The Grinch." What do we do when we feel like a grinch? Scriptures include Psalm 13 and 2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12.

We begin out Advent series with a look at the movie Elf and what it has to teach us about the Christmas season. The scripture is Luke 1:39-49.

We finish our sermon series, called "Stories of St. Paul's U.M.C.," with a focus on mission and service ministries. The guest speaker is Roni Timmerman.

In this second sermon in our sermon series, called "Stories of St. Paul's U.M.C.," we hear from Shari Carlson and Linda Rutter about the importance of hospitality and care in the church.

In our new sermon series, "Stories of St. Paul's U.M.C.," we look at how the ministries of the church have been impactful. Each week will feature within the sermon one or two voices from the congregation, sharing why the particular ministry of the day is important to him or her. In this message, we focus on Christian education and formation. Linda Christensen is our guest speaker.

We finish our sermon series, "Rethinking Everything - The Book of Acts," with a look at what ultimately happened to Paul. The debate of the century for the first century church was not actually resolved in Acts 15. Many still disagreed, and it led to Paul's death. How can the way they handled this debate back then inform how we handle debates today, either in church or the broader community? Acts...

In this sermon in our current sermon series, "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts," we look at the role culture has to play in faith. Is scripture the only way to come to know God, or are there other ways as well?

We continue our sermon series, called "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts," with a look at Acts 15:1-21. The greatest controversy of the century would come to a head. How can the way they handled their issues back then impact how the church should handle controversial issues today?

We continue our sermon series, "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts," with a miraculous story about an angel setting Peter free from prison.

We continue our sermon series, called "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts," with the story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10. Peter realizes two very profound things in this story. 1. "God has shown me that I should never call a person impure or unclean." 2. "I really am learning that God doesn't show partiality to one group of people over another." We are still figuring out the implications...

We continue our sermon series, called "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts" with a look at the conversion of Paul. The scripture comes from Acts 9:1-22.

In this third sermon in our sermon series, called "Rethinking the Faith: The Book of Acts," we look at the story of an Ethiopian eunuch. What we see is that the first century followers of Jesus would recklessly include any and all who were interested in Jesus, much to the consternation of those who felt the need to defend the laws of their Jewish scripture.

Why does the church grow when it faces persecution and stagnate when things are going well? In our second sermon of our fall sermon series, "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts," we look at the story of Stephen, the first martyr. Scriptures include Acts 6:8-7:1 and 7:54-8:3.

Today, we begin a new sermon series, called "Rethinking Everything: The Book of Acts." Scriptures include Acts 4:32-37 and Acts 5:1-11.

We finish our sermon series on the minor prophets with Malachi. Malachi presents a very dark and disturbing picture of the judgment of the wicked. How are we to make sense of this? We will look at how the early church viewed things like hell and the punishment of the wicked. The lack of consensus they had, and the lack of importance consensus was for them, may surprise you.

We continue our summer sermon series with Zechariah.

We continue our summer sermon series with Haggai, asking the question of what takes priority in our lives.

We continue our look at the minor prophets.

We continue our summer sermon series on the minor prophets with Habakkuk, who asks the question of why the wicked are allowed to continue causing unjust suffering and evil in the world.

We continue our summer sermon series with Nahum. What do we do when a portrayal of God is un-Christlike?

We continue our summer sermon series, called "The Major Message of the Minor Prophets," with a look at Micah. We will look at what it means to act justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with God.