Kearney First UMC Podcasts
Listen to Kearney First United Methodist Church’s Sunday sermons for thought provoking and uplifting messages or check out our weekly ponderings about the sermon, upcoming events, or interviews with members of the congregation.
Episodes
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt looks at Jesus intentionally taking time to be alone in Matthew 14 and the feeding of the 5000. Taking time to be with God gives us space to be conduits through which God can and does work. Being still with God so that God's presence can become part of our presence with others. Have we been present enough to notice someone else's struggle?
Welcome to our Sunday Sermon Podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen explains that parables help us look forward to our "one day, someday" in Heaven. The kingdom of Heaven is a great treasure to look forward to and we have a taste of now through living life with Jesus.
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt looks at the Parable of the Mustard Seed and the Parable of Yeast. Both represent the Kingdom of Heaven and God's grace growing in and through us. Transformation takes time, but it does happen.
Welcome to the Sunday Sermon Podcast! Please note, this sermon has a couple of audio corruption moments that we were unable to fix in editing. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen looks at the parable of wheat and weeds. Jesus didn't want us to wait to start living like Him. "All who has ears, let them hear," includes us today! What do you hear in the parables of Matthew and in scr...
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt briefly talks about what a parable is from a literary genre perspective and reads the Parable of the Weeds from Matthew 13. Matt invites us to think of the farmer in the story as God. God knows how things will work out and has the patience to see things through. God knows that we will grow. God is active in our lives to draw out God's character to make us more like J...
Welcome to our Sunday morning Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt shares the Parable of the Sower from Matthew 13. Perhaps when you read or listen to this parable, you worry about what kinds of soil you are. Matt invites us to take a step back and remember that this is the Parable of the Sower, not the Parable of the Soils. Jesus shows us the shape of God's extravagantly generous and gracious character that falls on us ...
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen looks at the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13. She makes note that you can read the parable literally or metaphorically, much like some stories in our lives. How we tell our own stories of faith are sometimes told very literally while others have deeper or hidden meanings. Having a community that we can share our stories with is a wonderful and fruitful thing to...
Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Jen Gibbs invites us to take a look at the Sabbath. Taking a Sabbath wasn't intended to be a luxury. God declares that everyone and everything deserves rest. Jen challenges us to go against he pressures of the world and take back time to rest rather than be pushed by society to always be busy. Rather than seeing Sabbath as a burden in our schedule, look at it as a blessing....
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen share some of her thoughts on Sabbath and how true the phase, "You don't know how much you need a Sabbath until you take one." really is.
Welcome to the Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen looks at Jesus healing the bleeding woman and Jairus' daughter in Matthew 9. As you listen, think about if you have ever needed healing. In each of the stories shared in Matthew, no one earned Jesus' healings. For some, they were coming to Jesus as a last resort. It didn't matter how they came to Jesus, it mattered that they came to Him. They were given heal...
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Matt looks at Matthew 8 which contains many stories of Jesus healing people. He reflects on Jesus's identity as a healer and the nature of God's kingdom.
Welcome to our Sunday sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt looks at Matthew 7. He comments that sometimes we see the Christian Life as a strict set of rules of "do this, don't do that." In the sermon on the mount, there are a few rules and "do this, don't do that" examples, but as a whole, it is about living as a whole in society and how we treat others. It is an introspective guide on how to think through every part of ...
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen shares a little bit about her time at the chautauqua in Ohio. She reflects that we are all God's beloved. There is no "us" or "them." We are all loved and made whole in Jesus and we are called to seek God.
Welcome to our Sunday Morning Podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt asks, "How do you define trust?" We often see trust as transactional, but that's not the same with God. God give with no strings attached. We can trust in God who never gives up on us.
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this week's episode, Pastor Matt looks at the next section of Matthew 6 building off of his Sunday sermon. The Sermon on the Mount includes Jesus' instructions to live His way and how to keep Jesus at the center of our lives.
Welcome to our Sunday Morning Podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt looks at the next section of the Sermon on the Mount which contains the Lord's Prayer and a reordering on instructions when praying giving and fasting. Through these reordered practices, Jesus invites us into the heart of God so that the holiness that God creates in us may be the spark that leads to our transformation and the world's transformation.
Welcome to our midweek podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen looks at Matthew 5 and reflects on the beatitudes. How are you being salt and light today? How are you growing closer to Jesus?
Welcome to our Sunday sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen looks at Matthew 5:38-48. She comments on Vacation Bible School starting this week and how important it is for children to learn through play and how spirituality helps promote humanity in children. She reflects on how she knew Jesus through "the popsicle man" from her childhood VBS experience. VBS helps children learn and discover who they are in Jesus just...
Welcome to our midweek podcast! This is the second part of a two part series looking at Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and Pastor Matt's experience walking for four days on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. in this episode, Pastor Matt invites us to ponder the seasons of hardship in our lives and how we equip ourselves during these times. How might we set aside some things that make our walk harder while seeking to recognize that o...
Welcome to the Sunday sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen invites us to "read it again!" Think back to your favorite story from childhood, the story you wanted to hear over and over. Then think about reading or listening to that story now. How has your perspective changed?
Our perspectives and contextualization changes as we grow and learn. How we read scripture is the same way. Read through Matthew 5:1-20 and look...
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