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Brecksville UMC strives to be an inclusive church. We intentionally make space for everyone to encounter a loving God—no matter your age, gender, race, income level, sexual orientation, or ability. No matter if you’re an atheist, someone struggling with faith, you live with constant faith in your heart, or you’re somewhere in between. You are welcome here and you are invited to participate in the life of our church. Here at BUMC we’re all about creating safe spaces to grow with God and one another!

  1. Strength For the Climb: When You Feel Like You Don't Have Enough

    4일 전

    Strength For the Climb: When You Feel Like You Don't Have Enough

    Today we continue our series—Strength for the Climb. This series is based on scriptures our children will explore at this year’s Vacation Bible School. Each day of VBS, the kids will look at a story from scripture that amplifies the theme verse for the week: Philippians 4:13: "For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." Now, many of us learned that verse as a kind of spiritual superpower—as if “I can do everything!” “Nothing is hard with Jesus!” But it’s important to remember that Paul wrote those words while sitting in prison—so he knew hardship. When Paul wrote these words, what he intended was for the people of Philippi, and us, to be assured that God will give us the strength to persevere through anything. And because God is God, God can use those hardships and challenges to help us become more of who God created us to be. So far, we’ve seen this in the story of Joseph interpreting dreams for Pharaoh, and in the story of Esther. Today, we see it in a woman giving her offering to God.

    43분
  2. Strength for the Climb: Brave Enough To Begin

    6월 22일

    Strength for the Climb: Brave Enough To Begin

    Today we continue our series—Strength for the Climb. This series is based on scriptures our children will explore at this year’s Vacation Bible School. Each day of VBS, the kids will look at a story from scripture that amplifies the theme verse for the week: Philippians 4:13: "For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." Now, many of us learned that verse as a kind of spiritual superpower—as if “I can do everything!” “Nothing is hard with Jesus!” But it’s important to remember that Paul wrote those words while sitting in prison—so he knew hardship. When Paul wrote these words, what he intended was for the people of Philippi, and us, to be assured that God will give us the strength to persevere through anything. And because God is God, God can use those hardships and challenges to help us become more of who God created us to be. Last week we saw this in the story of Joseph interpreting dreams for Pharaoh, and today we see it in the story of Esther.

    45분
  3. Strength for the Climb: The Gift That Survived the Pit

    6월 15일

    Strength for the Climb: The Gift That Survived the Pit

    Today we begin a new series—Strength for the Climb. It’s based on the scriptures our children will explore at this year’s Vacation Bible School in just a few weeks. Each day of VBS, the kids will explore stories from scripture that illustrate how God is with us through every season of life, and we don’t have to do hard things on our own. The theme verse for both VBS is Philippians 4:13: "For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." When Paul wrote those words, he wasn't standing on the winner's podium—he was sitting in prison. Right before that verse, he says, "I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation..." Then comes the famous line: "I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength." The strength Paul is talking about isn't the strength to avoid hardship—life is going to have difficult moments. Paul reminds us that with God, we have the strength to persevere through anything—not only to endure it, but because God is God, God can use those hardships and challenges to help us become more of who God created us to be. And that's exactly what we see in Joseph.

    46분
  4. Free Will In the Wild: You Don't Have To Do Everything

    6월 10일

    Free Will In the Wild: You Don't Have To Do Everything

    Free Will In the Wild: You Don't Have To Do Everything by BrecksvilleUMC

    50분
  5. Free Will in the Wild: You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind

    6월 1일

    Free Will in the Wild: You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind

    "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." The word conform means to take on an outward pattern or shape— often unconsciously allowing yourself to be pressed into a mold or adapting yourself to fit others’ expectations—the systems and assumptions and dominant values of the culture squeezing and shaping you into something that works for its benefit. Fitting you into a box or category that’s easily understood. Fear, outrage, consumerism, productivity, political tribalism, shame, scarcity, success culture… these things are constantly working to form and conform us… IF we’re willing to allow them. Paul tells us, “Don’t let the world decide your shape.”—don’t give the world that sort of power over you. Instead, Paul says, “be transformed.”

    48분
  6. Free Will In the Wild: You Are Not Powerless

    5월 26일

    Free Will In the Wild: You Are Not Powerless

    God of morning light and flickering stars, you breathed your Spirit into dust and called humanity good. You placed within us the sacred freedom to choose what we will carry, what we will release, what we will nurture, and who we will become. And yet, there are days when the world feels heavy— when fear grows louder than hope; when we forget that even small acts of love can illuminate the darkness. So as we gather together again, kindle your light within us. And if we come today feeling weary or powerless, remind us who we are: people created in your image, and filled with your Spirit; people called to shine. May our worship today become light for the world. In the name of Christ, who is our light and our life, we pray. Amen.

    43분
  7. Our Money Story: Restore

    5월 20일

    Our Money Story: Restore

    We began our series by remembering—by recognizing our spoken and unspoken money stories and how those stories have impacted our relationship to money. Then, we acknowledged those parts of our story that keep us from freedom and wholeness, and practiced release. Last week, we began to reimagine our money story, recognizing that God refuses to let brokenness become destiny. Today, we conclude our series focusing on restoration.

    48분
  8. Our Money Story: Reimagine

    5월 11일

    Our Money Story: Reimagine

    Today we continue the worship series, Our Money Story. Money and possessions are one of the most common topics in scripture—Jesus talked about money more than both faith and prayer. Because how we use our money—the way we choose to steward or spend it—is a deeply spiritual practice—and connected to what we think about God. Do we think God will provide? Do we think money is power or freedom or security or opportunity or control? Do we think that the money is ours because we worked hard for it, or do we think it’s God’s because everything we have is a gift from God? Our answers to all of these questions make up our money story—a story that has been written by our early experiences with money, and now shapes our beliefs and values surrounding money. Whether we realize it or not, we all have a money story. It might be a story of fear or shame, or a story that our actions won’t have an impact, or that we don’t have enough. The goal of this series is to give each of us an opportunity to pause and acknowledge the money story we’re living into and then wonder, “Is this story helpful?” and if not, “How might God be speaking a new narrative into our lives?” We began our series by remembering—by recognizing our spoken and unspoken money stories and how those stories have impacted our relationship to money. Then last week, we acknowledged those parts of our story that keep us from freedom and wholeness, and practiced release. This week, we reimagine our money stories.

    49분
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Brecksville UMC strives to be an inclusive church. We intentionally make space for everyone to encounter a loving God—no matter your age, gender, race, income level, sexual orientation, or ability. No matter if you’re an atheist, someone struggling with faith, you live with constant faith in your heart, or you’re somewhere in between. You are welcome here and you are invited to participate in the life of our church. Here at BUMC we’re all about creating safe spaces to grow with God and one another!

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