Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol,” is a holiday staple, its story retold in plays, films, sitcoms, parodies and even cartoons.  Even if you’ve never read the actual book, you certainly know the story of Scrooge and his ghostly visitors.  Yet the tale’s popularity persists precisely because it sings to deep truths even the most Scrooge-like among us knows deep down.  It is about sin and selfishness, failure and death, hope and redemption and the very meaning of life itself.  This Advent and Christmas season we’ll use this familiar story to reexamine the Christmas message of hope, peace, joy and love through the faithful grace of God-among-us.  Along the way we’ll celebrate the fundamental truth expressed by Tiny Tim, that God indeed blesses us, everyone. 

Sunday, November 27   ‘Though it Never Put a Scrap of Gold in My Pocket’

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Sunday, December 4  ‘His Wealth Is Of No Use To Him’

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Sunday, December 11            ‘Nothing in the World So Irresistibly Contagious’

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Sunday, December 18            ‘I See a Vacant Chair’

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Saturday, December 24          ‘It Is Good to Be Children Sometime’

Sunday, December 25             ‘All Three Shall Strive Within Me!’

Sunday, January 1       ‘Keeping Christmas Well’

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Sunday, November 13  "No Thanks.  I'll Just Wait for Dessert."

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Sunday, November 20   "French Toast for Mother's Day"

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Sunday, November 6   "Norm!"

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Sunday, October 30    "We Are Transformed to Transform Others"

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Reflections on a Life of Stewardship

We are obsessed with a great falsehood we all believe.  We speak using terms like “my money,” “my time,” “my life,” and even, “my soul,” when the truth is that we truly possess none of those things.  They are on loan to us for a short time until they, and we ourselves, are finally reclaimed by the rightful Owner.  The Bible reminds us that we are instead called to be stewards, managers of the lives, material, and years that have been entrusted to us.  Moreover, we are accountable for how we use and manage those priceless resources.  How would our worldview change if we truly understood ourselves as stewards?  How are stewardship and discipleship synonymous?  How is stewardship more than a task and more than putting money in an offering plate and, instead, an experience of hope, joy and liberation?  Join us as we explore what it means to live on “Borrowed Time.”

Sunday, September 18   “With Great Power Comes…Comfortable Apathy?”

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Sunday, September 25   “My Mom’s in the Crowd!”

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Sunday, October 2       “Molasses in the Gas Tank”

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Sunday, October 9       “Which Socket Did You Plug It Into?”

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Sunday, October 16   “Working for a Gold Watch”

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Sunday, October 23   “Enslaved Persons”

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Being Disciples in the Digital Age

The nature of our call to go and tell the world about Christ means that all Christians are, in a sense, in the communication business.  In our digital age, communications have been absolutely revolutionized as the street corner speaker has long since given way to the Tic Tok video, the Tweet, the Facebook post and the interactive website. These new ways of reaching out and staying in contact also have unique challenges and not a few dangers.  Yet though the means have changed, we are still called to share Christ.  Join us we explore what it looks like to be the Body of Christ in this fast-paced time and learn some practical God-focused tips for how to best use modern communications media and how to avoid the pitfalls.

Sunday, August 7        “The Smart Phone in the Gate”- A new world of communication

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Sunday, August 14      “Send to All?”-  Guarding our digital  tongues

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Sunday, August 21      “The Text Made  Flesh”  - Broad but shallow connections

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Sunday, August 28     “The 858 Friends I’ve Never Met” -Living in the digital bubble

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Sunday, September 4  “I Thought Trolls Were Only Under Bridges!” – Dealing with           

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Sunday, September 11  “The Phone That Never Stops Ringing”- Taking a digital sabbath

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Sunday, July 31

Our Youth Lead a Combined Service of worship and celebration!

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Hearing them again for the first time

We remember them all from Sunday school and coloring books,  but these seemingly quaint old and familiar stories are anything but child’s play.  In deceptively simple stories they teach us some fundamentals about who God is and what it means to be human.  Come with us as we make the old, old stories new again.

 Sunday, June 12           “Dumb and Dumber”  Adam and Eve and the Fall

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 Sunday, June 19         “Brotherly Love?”  The rise and fall of Cain

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 Sunday, June 26         “Ten Feet High and Rising”   Noah and the Flood

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 Sunday, July 3             “Ten Feet Tall and Bullet Proof”   The tower of Babel

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 Sunday, July   10          “Green Means Go!”  The Call of Abram

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 Sunday, July  17                       “You’ve Gotta Be Joking!”  Abram and Sara’s visitors

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 Sunday, July  24           “The Worst Story in the Bible”   Abraham and Isaac

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Embracing, Investing in and Advancing Our Mission

Habits can be good things and familiarity does produce a certain comfort, but there’s always the risk that we lose focus on why we do what we do.  It’s the same for our discipleship.  As we move forward from Easter, we’ll spend the next 50 days focusing on and rededicating ourselves to our church’s mission.  As the Body of Christ tasked with sharing the good news and making disciples we are called to embrace that calling fully through prayer and worship, pour ourselves completely into the building of God’s Kingdom and grow ever more into the likeness of Christ.  Join us for this Easter-season series as we discover ways to embrace, invest and advance…in short living as disciples; living like we mean it!

Sunday, April 24  “The Big Squeeze” 

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Sunday, May 5   “ ’Biners, Belays and the Ties That Bind”

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Sunday, May 8  “Virtual Reality Isn’t Virtuous or Real!”

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Sunday, May 15  “You Can Always Use It As a Paper Weight"

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Sunday, May 22  “Did You Miss Me?”

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Sunday, May 29  5^th Sunday Combined Service

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Sunday, June 5    “Did You Have to Tell Everybody ?” 

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Join us for some very special services and activities as we prepare to celebrate Christ's Resurrection.

Palm Sunday, April 10   “I Didn’t Need That Cloak Anyway!”

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Maundy Thursday Service, April 14   

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Good Friday , April 15   Victory in a Minor Key

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Easter Sunday, April 17   “The Not-A-Zombie Apocolypse!”

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Oh...It's On!  Setting Our Faces Towards Jerusalem

Much of Luke’s Gospel is framed as a journey from Galilee to Judea to Jerusalem and ultimately to the cross.  As the story progressed the stakes get higher, the challenges grow more intense and the options narrow.  In Luke 9:51 we are told that “Jesus set his face to Jerusalem.”  There is a stalwart focus and passionate determination and his disciples (us included!) are invited to commit to the fateful journey.  This year as we walk through Lent, we will wrestle with what determined discipleship looks like.  In our world, where the faith is constantly challenged and undercut and where we are sorely tempted to be less than fully engaged, we’ll discover what it means to set our faces towards Jerusalem.  Oh, it’s on!

Sunday, March 6           “Let Me See Your War Face!” (Luke 9:43-56)

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Sunday, March 13        “Keep Your Eye on the Ball“     (Luke 13:31-35)                              

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Sunday, March 20        “Getting On My Last Nerve!”    (Luke 13:1-9)                                                   Click Here for This Sunday’s Bulletin

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Sunday, March 27        “Don’t They Know It’s My Road?”  (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)               Click Here for This Sunday’s Bulletin

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Sunday, April 3           “Running on Fumes”  (John 12:1-8)                                     

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Wednesday, March 2  6:30pm

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Wrestling with Those Nagging Questions

If Jesus were before you right now, what questions would you ask?  Is there something about discipleship, the church, faith, sin, heaven, hell...or anything else related to the faith that you’d like to explore? This series is based on some of the questions asked by members of the CFUMC family. 

 Sunday, January 16  “I Believe!  Help My Unbelief!”

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Sunday, January 23      “Seeing the Elephant”  

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Sunday, January 30      (Series Break) Mission Sunday    “God’s Favorite Word”

Sunday, February 6    “Just Zap the Bad Guys, Already!”

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Sunday, February 13   “I’m Dead.  Now What?”

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Sunday, February 20   “I Have Sinned But I Have Some Excellent Excuses!”

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Sunday, February 27   “The Bible Says It. I Believe It.  So There.”

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