MVP Message

MVP Message

No matter where one is on their faith journey, MVP Message seeks to provide support and nurture each other in our spiritual growth, faith formation, and daily lives through authentic worship, different small groups, opportunities to serve, a call to action for justice, and spaces to experience community.

  1. May 24

    The Language of Love || Pentecost Sunday

    Preacher: Lee Schriber Aber, Minister of Engagement & Discipleship Scripture: Acts 2:1-21 & 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 What does it mean to truly understand one another? In a world shaped by division, suspicion, and noise, we long for connection that goes deeper than words alone. Where do we encounter a love capable of crossing the boundaries that so often separate us? Join us for this Pentecost Sunday episode as we turn to the stories of Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 12, and reflect on how the Holy Spirit brings people together across all sorts of barriers. As we again hear the story of the birth of the Church—formed from many voices into one body—we’ll consider what it means to truly hear one another and to live as a community shaped by the love of God. Come as you are to reflect and discover what the Spirit may yet be speaking to us today.

    26 min

  2. May 17

    Disciples Transform the World || Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, Lead Courageously

    Preacher: Sam Pannell || Chair, Strategy, Accountability, and Leadership Table (SALT) Scripture: Psalm 96 This week we conclude our 6-week journey exploring the new guiding vision of our denomination: "The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections." In Psalm 96, we hear the call to sing a new song, proclaim God’s salvation, and declare God’s glory among all peoples. As we close this series, we reflect on what it means to be disciples who are not only shaped by God’s love, but sent into the world as witnesses to God’s renewing work. How is God calling us to live out our faith beyond the walls of the church? Where are we being invited to embody hope, justice, and grace in our communities and beyond? Join us in this episode as we explore what it means to be disciples who help transform the world and consider how the Holy Spirit sends us to love boldly by sharing God’s grace with others, serve joyfully by participating in God’s healing work in the world, and lead courageously by bearing witness to God’s reign in our communities and beyond.

    14 min

  3. May 10

    Disciples Lead Courageously || Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, Lead Courageously

    Preacher: Grace Rogers, Howard & Mary Martin Ministry Intern Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20 This week we continue a 6-week journey exploring the new guiding vision of our denomination: "The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections." When faced with leadership that falsely misaligns itself with the Gospel, how do we courageously lead resistance? How do we faithfully lead in our lives, mindful to not replace God's will with our own? Where do we find the courage to do the "right thing" and the wisdom to know that it's right? Join us as grapple with this questions and explore the "armor of God" as a call to lead with courage.

    18 min

  4. May 3

    Disciples Serve Joyfully || Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, Lead Courageously

    Preacher: Grace Rogers, Howard & Mary Martin Ministry Intern Scripture: Psalm 100 & Mark 10:42-45 This week we continue a 6-week journey exploring the new guiding vision of our denomination: "The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections." How do we serve joyfully in a world that is deeply hurting? What is the source of your joy? We are often told that our status, our power, or possessions will bring joy, but what if true, everlasting joy comes from somewhere deeper? Join us this week as we discover the ways we are formed by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve joyfully in our local communities and through worldwide connections.

    14 min

  5. Apr 27

    Disciples Love Boldly || Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, Lead Courageously

    Preacher: Grace Rogers, Howard & Mary Martin Ministry Intern Scripture: Mark 12:28-34 This week we continue a 6-week journey exploring the new guiding vision of our denomination: "The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections." What does it actually look like to love boldly? Is love enough? Is it possible that love for God and one another is the answer? Join us this week as we use Jesus' teaching in the book of Mark on the Greatest Commandment to explore these questions and discover what it might look like to love boldly and without reservation.

    17 min

  6. Apr 19

    Disciples Empowered by the Holy Spirit || Lead Boldly, Serve Joyfully, Lead Courageously

    Preacher: Grace Rogers, Howard & Mary Martin Ministry Intern Scripture: Acts 2:14, 36-47 Do you see the Holy Spirit active in your life? What does it mean to be empowered by the Holy Spirit? Join us this week as we explore the work of the Holy Spirit in the earliest church and discover where the Spirit is working in our lives today, empowering us to love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously.

    22 min

  7. Apr 13

    Disciples Formed by Jesus Christ || Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, Lead Courageously

    Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-16 In this episode we begin a 6-week journey exploring the new guiding vision of our denomination: "The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections." This week’s episode explores a journey from ambition and self-definition toward a deeper, Christ-centered calling. Rooted in the Epistle to the Ephesians, it highlights how community, humility, and shared gifts shape discipleship, inviting us to walk together in love and build up the body of Christ.

    21 min

  8. Apr 5

    Easter Sunday || Let's Be Honest...We Need Resurrection to Be Real

    Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10 The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our faith and the source of countless promises that have the power to fill us with bright hope no matter what we are experiencing in life. Easter is not only a celebration of new life, it is a remembrance of the most transformational change of events that has ever taken place. But let’s be honest, we need the resurrection to be real. Not just as a story we tell or a tradition we keep, but as a truth we can stake our lives on. In Matthew's Gospel, the women arrive at the tomb carrying grief, fear, and uncertainty only to be met by an empty grave and a message that sounds almost too good to be true, he is not here, for he has been raised. They do not respond with instant certainty. They run with fear and great joy tangled together, and maybe that is where many of us are too, caught between doubt and hope, longing to believe that death does not get the final word. This Easter, we will face the question head on, what if the resurrection is real, what if God truly has the power to bring life out of death, hope out of despair, and purpose out of our deepest pain, because if it is real then everything changes, not just for Jesus, but for us too.

    15 min
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No matter where one is on their faith journey, MVP Message seeks to provide support and nurture each other in our spiritual growth, faith formation, and daily lives through authentic worship, different small groups, opportunities to serve, a call to action for justice, and spaces to experience community.

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    MVP Message
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    180
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