St. Andrew UMC Podcast

DISPATCHES FROM CELL 92 - "Discipleship & the Cross" (Luke 9:21-27) - Rev Mark Feldmeir - February 9, 2025

CURRENT SERMON SERIES:

Dispatches from Cell 92: Bonhoeffer on Faith and Resistance

January 12–March 2

Some call him a martyr. Others a spy and assassin. But before his arrest and execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor and theologian whose writings on Christianity have become more relevant today than ever.

In this six-part series, we’ll explore Bonhoeffer’s thoughts on grace, faith, responsibility, and resistance for clues about how we might live out our faith in ways that make a difference in today’s world. 

The series includes an all-church book study and documentary film discussion.

DISPATCHES FROM CELL 92 - "Single-Minded Obedience" (Luke 14:25-26) - Rev Mark Feldmeir - February 2, 2025

CURRENT SERMON SERIES:

Dispatches from Cell 92: Bonhoeffer on Faith and Resistance

January 12–March 2

Some call him a martyr. Others a spy and assassin. But before his arrest and execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor and theologian whose writings on Christianity have become more relevant today than ever.

In this six-part series, we’ll explore Bonhoeffer’s thoughts on grace, faith, responsibility, and resistance for clues about how we might live out our faith in ways that make a difference in today’s world. 

The series includes an all-church book study and documentary film discussion.

"What’s a Christian to Do?" (Luke 4:1-13) - Bishop Kristin Stoneking - January 26, 2025

https://www.mtnskyumc.org/about-bishop-kristin-stoneking

DISPATCHES FROM CELL 92 - "The Call to Discipleship" (Mark 2:13-17) - Rev Mark Feldmeir - January 19, 2025

CURRENT SERMON SERIES:

Dispatches from Cell 92: Bonhoeffer on Faith and Resistance

January 12–March 2

Some call him a martyr. Others a spy and assassin. But before his arrest and execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor and theologian whose writings on Christianity have become more relevant today than ever.

In this six-part series, we’ll explore Bonhoeffer’s thoughts on grace, faith, responsibility, and resistance for clues about how we might live out our faith in ways that make a difference in today’s world. 

The series includes an all-church book study and documentary film discussion.

DISPATCHES FROM CELL 92 - "Costly Grace" (Matthew 7:7-11) - Rev Mark Feldmeir - January 12, 2025

CURRENT SERMON SERIES:

Dispatches from Cell 92: Bonhoeffer on Faith and Resistance

January 12–March 2

Some call him a martyr. Others a spy and assassin. But before his arrest and execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor and theologian whose writings on Christianity have become more relevant today than ever.

In this six-part series, we’ll explore Bonhoeffer’s thoughts on grace, faith, responsibility, and resistance for clues about how we might live out our faith in ways that make a difference in today’s world. 

The series includes an all-church book study and documentary film discussion.

EPIPHANY: "Embracing a New Reality" (Matthew 2:1-12) - Rev. Jerry Lee Butler - January 5, 2025

"What Are You Waiting For?" (Luke 2) - Rev Amy Stapleton - December 29, 2024

CHRISTMAS EVE 2024 - "So ... Who Does the Baby Look Like?" - Rev Mark Feldmeir - December 24, 2024

WAITING ROOM - "Restoration" (Luke 1:39-45) - Rev Mark Feldmeir - December 22, 2024

CURRENT (ADVENT) SERMON SERIES: Waiting Room

[ December 1 – December 22 ]

Waiting. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the test results. Waiting for the traffic to clear. Waiting for the storm to pass. Waiting for the light to change. Waiting for your ship to come in. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Waiting for the show to start. Waiting for the sun to rise. Waiting for a girl like you. Waiting on the world to change.

We spend so much of our lives waiting for whatever it is we fear we do not have and believe we cannot live without—and we know all too well that, as Tom Petty famously crooned, the waiting is the hardest part.

But what are we really waiting for? What are you waiting for? Maybe, in the end, what we’re all really waiting for is for our waiting to finally be over—to be delivered from the chronic sense of lack and the expectancy of what might be, and to finally be at peace with what is, with who we are, with what we have, right here, right now.

Advent is a time to acknowledge our lack and to wait patiently for that day when our waiting will finally be over and the peace we all long for finally won. In the coming of Emmanuel, God-with-Us, our waiting is at last fulfilled, and we have all we need to be who we are and to live as we are meant to live, right here, right now.

WAITING ROOM - "Mercy" (Zephaniah 3:14-20) - Rev Mark Feldmeir - December 15, 2024

CURRENT (ADVENT) SERMON SERIES: Waiting Room

[ December 1 – December 22 ]

Waiting. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the test results. Waiting for the traffic to clear. Waiting for the storm to pass. Waiting for the light to change. Waiting for your ship to come in. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Waiting for the show to start. Waiting for the sun to rise. Waiting for a girl like you. Waiting on the world to change.

We spend so much of our lives waiting for whatever it is we fear we do not have and believe we cannot live without—and we know all too well that, as Tom Petty famously crooned, the waiting is the hardest part.

But what are we really waiting for? What are you waiting for? Maybe, in the end, what we’re all really waiting for is for our waiting to finally be over—to be delivered from the chronic sense of lack and the expectancy of what might be, and to finally be at peace with what is, with who we are, with what we have, right here, right now.

Advent is a time to acknowledge our lack and to wait patiently for that day when our waiting will finally be over and the peace we all long for finally won. In the coming of Emmanuel, God-with-Us, our waiting is at last fulfilled, and we have all we need to be who we are and to live as we are meant to live, right here, right now.