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North Charleston UMC Audio Sermons

184 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

Weekly messages, conversations, and Q and A's from North Charleston UMC in North Charleston, SC.

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Episodes

Welcoming the Holy Spirit - Pentecost

May 24, 2021 12:50 - 22 minutes - 30.2 MB

Is difference a problem to be solved or the starting point of a beautiful mosaic?  

Living the Resurrection - In the World

May 17, 2021 12:53 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MB

What does it actually mean to be in the world but not of the world?

Living the Resurrection - No Greater Love

May 09, 2021 16:00 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MB

Most of us will not be put in a situation where we had to choose about laying our life down for a friend...so what if the love Jesus is talking about is much more mundane and even difficult?

Living the Resurrection - Abide In Me

May 02, 2021 16:00 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MB

What we choose to abide in will determine how we change the world. 

Living the Resurrection - Listen to my Voice

April 25, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MB

The first step to recognizing the voice of God is realizing we have to make the choice to listen. 

Living the Resurrection - Touch and See

April 18, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MB

If we fail to see the reality of our faith in the here and now, then we run the risk of believing this is all about getting a disembodied soul into heaven..

Living the Resurrection - Unless I See

April 11, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MB

Hope is the only thing more powerful than fear.

Terror and Amazement

April 04, 2021 16:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MB

The unfinished story of Easter...

Claim the Promise - The One Who Comes

March 28, 2021 16:00 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MB

Are we willing to follow who Jesus truly is or are we set to turn on him like the crowds because he doesn't fit the box we have created for him?

Claim the Promise - Written on the Heart

March 21, 2021 16:00 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MB

Maybe it really is time for a fresh start.  

Claim the Promise - Look up and Live

March 14, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MB

Look up and live...is it really that simple?

Claim the Promise - All These Words

March 07, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 27 MB

How we view God necessarily affects how we view our neighbors. So how do the 10 commandments teach us to view God? 

Claim the Promise - Walk Before Me

February 28, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 28.8 MB

When is a kid's song no longer a kid's?  And what do we do with the rough parts of the Bible?

Claim the Promise - This is the Sign

February 21, 2021 17:00 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MB

Radical reorientation.  Radical inclusivity.  Radical reminders. What if these are the tenets of the flood story...not an angry God who killed everything?

Ash Wednesday Meditation

February 17, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MB

Sometimes we need to declutter our souls so that we can connect with the radical love of Jesus. It's hard to grab on to something else when our hands are full. Ash Wednesday and Lent are the moments we have to do just that.

Follow Me - Only Jesus

February 14, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MB

"To listen is an effort. To only hear is of no merit. Even a duck hears..." If Igor Stravinsky said that about music, how much more true could it be about the Good News?

Guest Preacher - Bishop L. Jonathan Holston

February 07, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MB

Don't miss a chance to hear this sermon from our resident Bishop in South Carolina, L. Jonathan Holston.  

Follow Me - What Have You To Do With Us?

January 31, 2021 17:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MB

What if prayer is the struggle to believe a better world is possible? That change is possible?  How then should we pray?

Follow Me

January 24, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes - 24.5 MB

If we want to make a difference in the world, then let's have the courage to follow and show others how to do the same. 

Follow Me - Anything Good?

January 17, 2021 17:00 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MB

Can anything good come out of what's going on in the world right now...?  I guess that depends on how we choose to spend our time. 

Follow Me - What Do we Do Now?

January 10, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MB

After the events of this week, what is our role as the church to foster healing in this world?  Where do we go from here and what do we do now?

Guest Preacher - Rev. Elizabeth Murray

January 03, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MB

Ring in the new year with this exceptional message from Rev. Elizabeth Murray. 

Immanuel - God With Us

December 24, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MB

The most famous plate in all of history and why it matters in the midst of a pandemic. 

Immanuel - Carry and Deliver

December 20, 2020 17:00 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MB

What if the point of this detail is to blur the lines between what we think is possible and impossible so that we carry and deliver the impossible possibility of grace and love to the world?

Immanuel - Everyone has a Herod

December 13, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MB

Every life has a story if we only bother to read it. 

Immanuel - Too Good to Be True?

December 06, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MB

Asterisk or no asterisk?

Immanuel - The Messy Nativity

November 29, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MB

Welcome to the mess!

6 Words that Can Change the World - Decisions...Decisions

November 22, 2020 17:00 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MB

What if forgiveness is the most important decision we can ever make in our life?

6 Words that Change the World - Part 3

November 15, 2020 17:00 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MB

Sometimes it's the simplest instructions that are the hardest to follow. 

Forgiveness - Election Week 2020

November 08, 2020 17:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MB

What do we do after a week like this? Get dressed. Put on some new clothes and work to make the world better one choice at a time. 

Six Words to Change the World

November 01, 2020 17:00 - 25 minutes - 35 MB

I am sorry. I forgive you. Six words that have the power to change a relationship and, if we let them, the world.

Sermon on the Mount - Decisions Decisions

October 25, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MB

The decision to follow Jesus might be an individual one, but it's never journey we have to take alone. 

Sermon on the Mount - This is It.

October 18, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MB

If the antidote to the anxiety in the world is seeking justice and heaven on earth, what if the antidote to the judgement and condemnation is self-examination?

Sermon on the Mount - Decisions...Decisions

October 11, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MB

What if there was more than enough for every person's need but not enough for every person's greed?

Sermon on the Mount - Practice makes perfect?

October 04, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MB

Practice doesn't make perfect.  It makes a habit permanent. So what are we practicing for?  

Sermon on the Mount - He Said What?!?!

September 27, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MB

Is all of this just about whether we pass or fail the course of Christianity?  Or could it be about something more?

Sermon on the Mount - Salt and Light

September 20, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MB

Trust that you already are it. Then live it because the world needs it. 

Sermon on the Mount - Blessed are Who?

September 13, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MB

What if this was the most important call to action the church has ever heard?

Kingdom Living - Foundations Matter

September 06, 2020 16:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MB

We need to talk about foundation matters because our foundations matter. 

Lessons from the Wilderness - Don't get Distracted

August 30, 2020 16:00 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MB

The way forward may be difficult but to go backward would be disastrous.  So would catastrophizing the present such that we being to romanticize the past. 

Lessons from the Wilderness - Everything Must Change

August 23, 2020 16:00 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MB

There's a fundamental difference between occupying the same space and living life together. 

Lessons from the Wilderness - Can you hear me now?

August 17, 2020 13:20 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MB

What if continue to miss God speak to us in the ordinary because we're so fixated on finding God in the extraordinary?

Lessons from the Wilderness - In God We Trust...Kinda

August 09, 2020 16:00 - 19 minutes - 27 MB

Chubby bunny might be an entertaining game to play as a kid...but it's a terrible way to live in this wilderness. 

Lessons from the Wilderness - Stop. Listen. Look

August 03, 2020 13:01 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MB

What do we do when we're stuck between a past trying to track us down and an unknown, chaotic future?

Lessons from the Wilderness - A Walk to Remember

July 27, 2020 13:21 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MB

Reminders are only as good as the actions they inspire. 

Lessons from the Wilderness

July 19, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MB

There's no arguing that the world is a wilderness right now.  What if there are lessons to be learned by embracing the journey instead of fast forwarding to the end?

World Changers - Ripples of Revolution

July 12, 2020 16:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MB

Discovering the activist in all of us. 

World Changers - Assemble!

July 05, 2020 16:00 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MB

If the Bible knows nothing of solitary religion then why do we keep trying to do this thing called life on our own?

World Changers - The Sacrifice Required

June 28, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 34 MB

We have all the resources we need to change the world - our time, our money and our influence.  The question is whether or not we're willing to sacrifice any of it for the benefit of another. 

World Changers - What is Required

June 21, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MB

What if we're missing out on all the small acts that make a difference because we're waiting on the big moment?