We can love everything from movies to food to our favorite movie. But that’s not the kind of love that changes us so that we can go out and impact the world. Brandon explores the next simple idea that’s been changing people and the planet for 2,000 years: love. https://media.blubrry.com/legacyumc/p/content.blubrry.com/legacyumc/Love_the_Religion_Jesus_Requires.mp3 Read more…
Christians understand creation differently than others. God didn’t create the world and stand back but is involved constantly creating beautiful people, music, art and the list goes on. Don explores how beauty leads us to a deeper intimacy with God. https://media.blubrry.com/legacyumc/p/content.blubrry.com/legacyumc/Beauty_the_key_to_understanding_God.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Read more…
Centuries ago in Britain, people assumed they were Christian because they were British. Yet another group of people arose, influencing the first Methodists, that said every person can have a personal encounter with Jesus today. Brandon explores this simple religious idea and how it changed and continues to change the Read more…
Some think religion has only done harm in the world. Yes, while some have done horrific evil in the name of religion, there are simple religious ideas that have changed the world and still change it today. Brandon explores the notion that work, our normal day job, can show our Read more…
In the early Sunday morning light, three women made their way to Jesus’ tomb expecting one thing and encountered the resurrection. Brandon explores what the resurrection means for us today to experience life as it was meant to be. https://media.blubrry.com/legacyumc/p/content.blubrry.com/legacyumc/Made_Alive.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Read more…
Read: Mark 16:9-20 This verse really resonates with me. I have just finished the 30 Hour Famine. We learned about how well off we live compared to many people around the world. The Bible teaches us to give our excess to those who live with less. I saw God through Read more…
Read: Mark 16: 1-8 I can’t even begin to understand the unimaginable grief that the three women were experiencing as they approached the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. They had been there on Friday when Jesus was crucified, and Mary Magdalene had watched as Jesus’s body was placed Read more…
It doesn’t take long for the excitement of Palm Sunday to turn into the somber prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane on Thursday. Brandon explores the events of the week and how we can miss the bigger possibilities God has for each one of us. https://media.blubrry.com/legacyumc/p/content.blubrry.com/legacyumc/Am_I_Leading_a_Rebellion_.mp3 Podcast: Play in new Read more…
Read: Mark 15:21-47 “Then at three o’clock Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’” (Mark 15:34 NLT) In the 70’s, Gilbert O’Sullivan sang a sad song titled “Alone Again (Naturally).” Some words of this song are: “Talk about, God in His Read more…
Read: Mark 15:1-20 In Mark 14 and 15, Jesus was betrayed, arrested, put on trial, and handed over to be crucified. Every person mentioned in this passage has power. Many of the people mentioned also possess the ability to influence the outcome of Jesus’s final days on earth. Pilate– The Read more…