Making Waves

Watch the videos for the Pelham United Methodist Church Revival 2016 by using the links below! Night 1: Rev. Sue Anne Morris Night 2: Rev. Brad Thie Night 3: Rev. Clark Chilton Night 4: Rev. Nathan Webb (this sermon transcript is also found below) Good evening! It’s so wonderful to see you all here for our final night of Revival here at Pelham UMC. What an incredible week we’ve had. So, many wonderful speakers, great worship and praise, and a good, good Father overseeing the whole event. I can honestly stand here and tell you that I have never preached at a Revival prior to this moment, and, in fact, I only discovered earlier this year that the Methodists even have a history of Revival at all. It’s been fascinating to learn more about what this means. What a Revival is, what it can be, what it can do, how it can change people. I’ve fallen in love with this idea of Revival and I hope that, after these past several days, you have also fallen in love with God in a whole new w

Watch the video version of this sermon here ! Hello and welcome back to another week here on Making Waves! Years ago, I was given the chance to be in a production of the famous (perhaps infamous in some cliques) musical display of the gospel of Matthew, “Godspell.” For those of you not familiar, it is a paraphrased recounting of the ministry of Jesus Christ is the setting of the slums of 1960s or 1970s New York City. Bright colors, disco and rock music, afros, chain-link fences… you get the idea. It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I was able to use my talents and passions for theatre and vocal performance to better illustrate and teach the gospel. Not to mention, it was the only theatre production that I got to co-star with my mother, which was special in and of it’s own light. I was given the role of one of the disciples, whose name was “Herb.” I was content in this role, and I thought I played it to the best of my ability, but it wasn’t the role that I

Watch the video version of this sermon here ! Hello and welcome back to another week here on Making Waves! I want to apologize for the messy past few weeks of missed blog posts and the such. Unfortunately, my computer has been at the doctor and it has made editing the video feed a little challenging, but they should be back on schedule after the brief hiccup soon. We have an incredibly interesting message this Sunday. Today is actually a holiday within the liturgical calendar of the Methodist tradition and several other doctrinal branches. It’s a fairly recent addition to the calendar (in fact, some might remember it’s inception!) and was added to the list in 1925. It’s known as Christ the King Sunday, and it just seemed so fitting for where we are at right now that I had to preach on it  today. We’ll get to the scripture soon, but first, where did this young holiday get it’s roots? Well, it began in Mexico after the harsh religious persecution suffered by the Christians of

Watch the video version of this sermon here ! Welcome back to another exciting post on Making Waves! I missed all of you this past week. My church that I am currently serving had it’s Homecoming service this past Sunday, followed by a four-night Revival. It was a wonderful time, filled with lots of inspiring and awesome speakers. Huge thanks to Sue Anne Morris, Brad Thie, Clark Chilton and Kendrick Fruits for all of their help with this undertaking. Those sermons and my concluding transcript will be posted soon, it’s just taken me longer than anticipated to get all of the video files exported. It’s been a long week, hasn’t it? I can say that Logan and I have had an unbelievably busy week. Between doctors appointments, my school, her school, the Revival, church, friends, family, the election, raking the yard, beginning to plan Thanksgiving (way too late, might I add), beginning to plan Christmas, thinking about New Years’, and I could go on and on. Our lives are crazy right now