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Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Today we finish the series, Faith in the Real World. Our message today is from Dr. David Wilkinson, "From the James Webb Telescope to Jesus: The World at the Heart of the Universe" based on John 1.” He talks about how faith and science interact and support each other. A message you don't want to miss.
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Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
This is the first of 2 in a series called Faith in the Real World - today, Pastor Rob talks with Fanchon Stinger, former Fox59 news anchor who dives deep into how her faith has influenced her life. Fanchon's stories and scripture based life is inspiring and brings lessons to everyone's real world.
Fanchon's Foundation is called Grit & Grace Nation: https://gritandgracenation.org/
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Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Our song or psalm for this week is even more confusing, and challenging, and needed. It describes our deepest fear and our deepest need. Last week could very well be a part 1 to this message because it was written by David so we have to filter the lyrics through his context. Today, Pastor Jevon talks about Psalm 139 - and how God fearfully and wonderfully made us. He reminds us to look at ourselves and remind ourselves that God can handle what we desperately want to hide. One of the difficult journeys of faith is not believing in God. It’s believing what God believes in you. No matter what, He accepts you - just remind yourself, THIS IS ME.
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Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
The 51st psalm is a plea for forgiveness and a desire to repent. It is a response to an entanglement that David had thats recorded in more details in 2 Samuel 12. Listen in as Pastor Jevon talks us through how blowing it can be redeemed in our trust in God and how HE cleans our hearts.
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Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
For this month of July we are looking at psalms. If you didn’t get one last week we have a note card that gives helpful background on the Book of Psalms. There are 150 psalms that came together over 6 centuries. They were written by kings like David as well as other known and unknown composers. The psalms are like a hymn book. They describe the honest feelings and emotions of the writers and show us that we can do the same. We can share with God whatever is going on inside of us—even feelings of anger and revenge.
The psalms were like the hymnbook of Israel. If you get nothing else out of this series, I hope you appreciate the way music helps us experience the presence of God unlike anything else. I hope you will be encouraged to incorporate music in an intentional way in your devotions or meditation time. Through song we experience God in unique ways.
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
For this month of July we are looking at psalms. If you didn’t get one last week we have a note card that gives helpful background on the Book of Psalms. There are 150 psalms that came together over 6 centuries. They were written by kings like David as well as other known and unknown composers. The psalms are like a hymn book. They describe the honest feelings and emotions of the writers and show us that we can do the same. We can share with God whatever is going on inside of us—even feelings of anger and revenge.
Today we consider the most popular category of the psalms comprising one-third of all psalms, Lament. And out of these 50 psalms of lament we consider Psalm 22.
This is what makes Psalm 22, and Jesus use of it on the cross, an important tool for us because it teaches us that Why is an okay question to ask God. Why is the most frequently occurring question in the psalms. It indicates something is wrong and does not make sense. And we are searching for understanding and taking our search to God.
Asking God why does not show a lack of faith. It is an expression of faith. It shows a faith that believes God can do something about our pain. And in bringing our real honest emotions and questions to God we find how God can help us. Often our greatest need is not a reason why. It is a comforting hand.
And, there are times when our praise is not because of what God got us through, but because we refuse to give up believing God will get us through.
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Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
We begin a five week series on Psalms today which is why we are calling it Summer Playlist. Psalms are songs. The Book of Psalms is like a hymnbook. So each week we will have songs we use in worship you can access at stlukesumc.com/summer
To save time in today’s message I have a one-page background that helps to understand the Book of Psalms. This morning we begin with Psalm 16 which is a Psalm of Trust.See sermon notes and more at stlukesumc.com/sermons
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Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Today is Pastor Nicole's last Sunday at St. Luke's UMC, Indy. Listen in as we learn that Spiritual poverty not only makes it difficult to see the possibility of God, but spiritual poverty makes it difficult to see that God is where we are because of where we are.
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Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
This marks Pastor Rob's 35th year of being a full-time local church pastor with the responsibility of preaching weekly in the churches I serve. And after 35 years today is the first Sunday in which my sermon focuses on the celebration of Juneteenth. Now how could that be? Listen in as he dives deep into the impact of HOPE - Helping Overcome Prejudice Everywhere
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
If you haven’t caught on by now, we are in a final series this spring dealing with Paul’s spiritual tri-fecta. I Lent we talked about Faith. After Easter we spent some weeks dealing with Love. Now we talk about Hope. Faith, Hope and Love. I realize we got them out of order, but that’s just to keep you on your toes.
But really, this order makes more sense, because if we have faith and love, then we are going to be people of hope. We are going to have hope and give hope. So this series uses HOPE as an acronym to consider the different ways we are called as people of faith and love to bring hope to the world. So today we consider how H.O.P.E. means Hang On, Peace Exists!
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Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
There comes a point when the veil is lifted, and you realize the world isn’t as perfect as you thought. When this happens, it 1 of three things. 1. It jades you and you become a skeptic. 2. It inspires you. 3. It does a little of both. Listen in as Pastor Jevon talks about HOPE in Education and how you can plant the seed in someone's life that can change them forever.
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Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
I have to be honest with you, this is a hard week to preach this message. Objectively, I believe this. I believe that pain can be overcome and hope is always possible, but I have to tell you that this week I really did not FEEL it. As I watched the news out of Texas, just a couple weeks after shootings in New York and California, as I saw pictures of the kids and adults who had died, and as a mother I sent my own children back to school the next day, the pain and grief seemed too loud to even understand. Listen as Pastor Mindie talks about Pain and Hope.
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Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
Ever had the experience where you think you’re talking with somebody but it’s like you’ve got two totally different conversations going on? Or where you think you are talking about the same thing but what the other person is saying you can’t even understand. Or when you are with someone and you are trying to work something out, and you start to discover, “I don’t think we’re going to get there. I don’t think we are going to agree. I don’t know that we are going to be able to clear things up.” What does it mean to love when things aren’t clear?
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Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
I’ll let you in on a secret. Most pastors, and I am among them, feel a lot of trepidation about preaching on Mother’s Day. I learned the hard way in my first church what happens when you don’t preach about mothers at all on Mother’s Day. When I got out of seminary I followed the lectionary, prescribed Bible passages for each Sunday of the year. My first Mother’s Day I followed the lectionary without a mention of mothers. And I heard it from all the people who love their mommas and all the mommas who have kids. I don’t think I could have had a more visceral reaction than had I preached some heresy.
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Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
Today, Pastor Rob talks about practical love... he shares the impact that God's love, agape love, makes on our lives.
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Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Today we start a new series called, Love, Practically. Join us as Pastor Jevon takes helps us in understanding love through purses and labels. He explains how there is no area of your life where love does not apply.
As we go through these next few weeks, don’t just limit this to romantic love. The Greeks had different iterations of the word that described different kinds of relationships. It described love of friendships, family, our love for and from God, and romantic love.
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Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
For the past six weeks we have been talking about what it means to live by faith. So this morning I want to focus on the second part of the Easter story in John’s Gospel because it focuses on Mary Magdalene who represents a particular kind of Easter faith. Like Peter and John who witnessed the empty tomb, they were all believers in Jesus. They didn’t exactly come to faith on Easter, they came to a new faith.
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Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Today Pastor Rob Fuquay portrays a Centurion in the Roman Legion serving in Judea under Pontious Pilate, prefect of Caesarea, and loyal subject to his divine sonship, Emperor Augustus. Loyal, that is, until he avowed faith in Another. Listen as Pastor Rob dramatically portrays this story.
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Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Today we are talking about the most important element of this series on faith, putting faith into practice, understanding how faith changes everything when we put our trust in God fully.
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Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
For people of faith it seems the burden of proof has always been against us when it comes to presenting a reasonable argument for why we believe. After all we are talking about a God we cannot see or touch; and claims like resurrection, walking on water or parting a sea defy what our own sciences say is possible. Listen how Pastor Rob talks about finding the evidence in your life.
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