Zionsville United Methodist Church

Listen to the October 4, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. She's been called a prostitute, a secret lover, a reformed adulteress. None of it holds up to careful reading. Mary Magdalene was something far more interesting than any of those labels — she was the first person to see the risen Christ, precisely because she refused to leave. When the d...

Listen to the September 27, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. AJ Jacobs spent three years tracing his family tree and ended up with 190 million relatives. His conclusion: if you go back far enough, pretty much anyone could be family. Matthew's Gospel makes a similar argument in its opening chapter — except the family tree belongs to Jesus, and t...

Listen to the September 20, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. It's one of the most familiar stories in the Old Testament — a young boy named Samuel hearing his name called in the night, shuffling down the hall to his mentor Eli, saying "here I am." It sounds like a gentle story about faith passing from one generation to the next. But read a few...

Listen to the September 13, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. When Moses told the Israelites to pack up and leave Egypt in the middle of the night, they had hours to grab everything they'd need for an uncertain journey into the desert with an army at their heels. Food. Water. Clothing. Shelter. And somewhere in that chaotic packing, Miriam grabb...

Listen to the September 6, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. There are nearly a hundred portraits hanging in the lobby of Zionsville UMC right now — faces of church members, collected over the summer, each one representing a story God is telling. This message launches a sermon series built around that idea, anchored in a scene from Luke 2 that m...

Listen to the August 30, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. What does it mean to have faith when we cannot yet see how the story will turn out? Hebrews 11 gives us a "Hall of Faith," a long list of people whose lives were shaped by trust in God. Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Rahab, and many others accomplished remarkable things, but the author of...

Listen to the August 23, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Cam Newton had a brand. Bill Belichick had a brand. Peyton Manning definitely had a brand. And whether you've thought about it or not, so do you — and so does your church. But this isn't really a message about logos and slogans. It's a message about what it means for a brand to be real —...

Listen to the August 16, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. When we talk about the Great Commission, we usually mean Matthew 28 — go, make disciples, baptize, teach. But Dr. Jack Levison, New Testament professor and seminary mentor to Pastor Dave, points out that there are actually three Great Commissions in the New Testament, and they couldn't b...

Listen to the August 9, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. The average visitor to the Grand Canyon spends twenty minutes there. There's nothing wrong with that — but it's a tourist's way of moving through the world, not a pilgrim's. A tourist consumes, goes faster, expects ease, and feels entitled when things don't deliver. A pilgrim slows down,...

Listen to the August 2, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Matthew says Jesus fed 5,000 people — then adds "not counting women and children." One New Testament scholar noticed that phrase and couldn't let it go. This message asks who gets counted, who gets noticed, and what it looks like when a church takes seriously the gifts that children bring...

Listen to the July 26, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. You can read about a solar eclipse. You can study it, look at pictures, watch videos. But you can't actually experience one unless you get yourself on the path. Rev. Doug Anderson — retired elder, pastor, and mentor to Pastor Dave — used that image from his own 2017 eclipse trip to Nashvil...

Listen to the July 19, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. IListen to the July 19, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. When the eleven disciples made their way back to Galilee to meet the risen Jesus, they weren't a room full of people who had it all figured out. Some worshipped. Some doubted. Bot...

Listen to the July 12, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Imagine showing up to a dinner party where the parking spots closest to the door are all taken by the hosts, nobody greets you at the entrance, the best seats are already claimed, and when the food comes out nobody explains what anything is. You'd feel invisible. You'd slip out the moment...

Listen to the July 5, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. "We're going on a bear hunt. We're not scared." If you've ever read that book to a kid, you remember the refrain — every obstacle met with the same answer: can't go over it, can't go under it, gotta go through it. This message takes that simple childhood story and pairs it with the Apostle...

Listen to the June 28, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. The average visitor to the Grand Canyon makes two stops and stays for a total of 20 minutes. They look over the edge, say "that's cool," take a picture, and drive away. John spent four days on the Colorado River and hiked nine miles — one vertical mile — out of the canyon. The difference b...

Listen to the June 21, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. A four-year-old boy once grabbed the wrong man's pants leg in a crowded room, confident he was holding onto his dad — until he looked up and realized his mistake. This Father's Day message starts there and asks a deeper question: where did your picture of God the Father actually come from?...

Listen to the June 14, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. In March 1965, a group of voting rights marchers tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and were met with horses and bullwhips. The nation watched it happen on the evening news. Within days, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put out a call for help — and a classroom full of se...

Listen to the June 7, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. A volunteer stopped at Starbucks on her way to VBS and sparked a conversation about faith that was still going when she left. A little girl went home and told her mom they thanked God every day for Cheez-Its. These are the kinds of stories that come out of a week like this one. This Sunday'...

Listen to the May 31, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. A man once called his worship pastor not to complain about the music — which apparently does happen — but to ask for a recommendation for a voice teacher. Not because he wanted to join the choir. Because he wanted to become a better worshiper. That story opens a message that takes a serious...

Listen to the May 24, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Almost everyone knows the story of Jonah and the whale. Fewer people know how the book actually ends. It ends with God asking a question — one the author never answers. And that, it turns out, is entirely the point. Youth Director Zach Cheeseman walks through the complete book of Jonah, fro...

Listen to the May 10, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. There's a moment in nearly every hard season of life when you realize you can't get through it alone. This week's message weaves together two stories — the biblical account of Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth during two impossible pregnancies, and a personal story of a grandmother who dro...

Listen to the May 3, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. There's something worth paying attention to when teenagers stand up in front of a congregation and talk honestly about feeling disconnected from their faith. This week's message was delivered entirely by five high school students for Youth Sunday, and it might be one of the most grounded tak...

Listen to the April 26, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Most of us don't stop until we have no choice. We push through, we give more, we tell ourselves the right moment to rest is just around the corner. And then one day we end up under the broom tree — exhausted, depleted, and wondering what went wrong. This message draws on one of the Bible'...

Listen to the April 19, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Most of us don't stop until we have to. We let the calendar fill up, let the noise crowd in, and somewhere along the way we lose touch with the things that actually feed us — genuine worship, real connection with others, and that wide-eyed sense of wonder that reminds us the world is bigg...

Listen to the April 12, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. We know the story of Doubting Thomas — but we've probably missed what it's really about. It's not just a story about one man's skepticism. It's a story about a room full of frightened, grieving people who had heard the best news in human history and still couldn't bring themselves to beli...