Your Week with St. Luke’s

St. Luke’s UMC Orlando
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A weekly Bible Study to go along with the worship series at St. Luke’s UMC in Orlando, FL. St. Luke’s Pastors and special guests will guide you through the scriptures and offer practical applications for your life!

  1. 12H AGO

    Love 301: Unseen and Chosen

    In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad explores the powerful encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4:5–42, a story that unfolds at the crossroads of culture, theology, and human division. As part of our Lenten journey, this lesson reveals how Jesus intentionally crosses boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and religion to reveal God’s living water to someone society had overlooked. Rather than a story of shame, this passage becomes a story of revelation: a conversation that transforms an unseen woman into a courageous witness and expands the understanding of worship, salvation, and belonging beyond the limits people try to impose. Through rich biblical insight and historical context, Pastor Jad invites listeners to see how Jesus meets people in contested spaces—and how the church is called to follow him, crossing boundaries so that God’s love can reach the whole world.  Join us on the free LivetheRhythm app to reflect on the scripture and find community with others.

    32 min

  2. FEB 23

    Love 201: Letting Love Change You

    In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad explores Gospel of John 3:1–17 through Jesus’ nighttime conversation with Nicodemus, inviting listeners to reflect on what it means to be “born from above.” Unpacking the rich symbolism and double meanings in John’s Gospel: light and darkness, wind and Spirit, lifting up and exaltation, the episode examines how sincere faith can coexist with honest questions. Centered on John 3:16, Pastor Jad reframes this well-known verse within its broader context, emphasizing God’s love for a confused and resistant world and clarifying that Jesus’ mission is not condemnation but salvation. This conversation encourages listeners to release control, trust the movement of the Spirit, and embrace the transforming love of God that brings eternal life not just someday, but beginning now.  Join us on the free LivetheRhythm app to reflect on the scripture and find community with others.

    25 min

  3. FEB 19

    Love 101: Resisting False Power

    In this special episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad launches the Lenten series called Crossroads with a reflection on Matthew 4:1–11, where Jesus faces temptation in the wilderness. Framed as “Love 101: Resisting False Power,” the episode explores how Jesus, freshly named God’s beloved Son at his baptism, is tested not in his identity but in what that identity means. Drawing connections to Israel’s wilderness story, Pastor Jad unpacks three temptations: self-sufficiency, spectacle, and compromise, and shows how each invites Jesus to misuse power for self-protection, self-validation, or control. Instead, Jesus chooses trust, faithful dependence, and wholehearted allegiance to God. Listeners are invited to see Lent not as punishment but as formation, a season to notice where we grasp for control and to practice small, intentional acts of trust that reflect the way of love.  Join us on the free LivetheRhythm app to reflect on the scripture and find community with others.

    19 min

  4. FEB 16

    Preparing for Ash Wednesday

    In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad invites listeners to step thoughtfully into the season of Lent by exploring the meaning and history of Ash Wednesday. Tracing Lent’s roots to the early church as a season of communal preparation, repentance, and renewal, he explains the biblical symbolism of ashes as signs of mortality and truth-telling before God. Reflecting on Matthew 6, Pastor Jad unpacks Jesus’ teaching on almsgiving, prayer, and fasting, highlighting the difference between public faith and performative faith and challenging us to examine our motives and “audience.” Rather than focusing on outward ritual, this episode reframes Lent as an invitation to reorder our desires, prepare our hearts, and walk honestly toward the cross and the hope of resurrection.   Go deeper this week with the LivetheRhythm app  Join us for worship on Ash Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary and live online

    22 min

  5. FEB 9

    Lead All U Can

    In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, all four pastors come together to explore what it truly means to lead our lives as disciples of Jesus in everyday, ordinary life. Rooted in 2 Peter 1 (from The Message), the conversation reflects on discipleship as transformation rather than perfection; faith that moves from belief into embodied practice through God’s grace. Using rich Wesleyan imagery like stepping into the “river of grace,” the pastors discuss prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying grace, emphasizing growth over time, authenticity over polish, and participation over passivity. They wrestle honestly with failure, formation, and the public square, showing how God’s story shapes real decisions, leadership, justice, and love in the world. This episode invites listeners to stop tiptoeing, lean into grace, and lead lives formed by Jesus... together.   Get connected to small groups and classes at st.lukes.org/adults  Go deeper and reflect on the Scriptures on livetherhythm.app

    25 min

  6. FEB 2

    Love All U Can

    This episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s continues the Love University journey by exploring what it truly means to love God through worship, using Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. Together, all 4 St. Luke’s pastors unpack how Jesus reframes worship away from arguments about the “right” place or style and toward worshiping God in spirit and truth—something communal, formative, and deeply lived. The conversation highlights worship as a spiritual discipline and a shared practice of giving ourselves to God, not simply a service we attend or an experience we consume, but a kind of dress rehearsal that shapes how we live, love, and lead in the world. Listeners are invited to engage scripture throughout the week, wrestle with it in community, and come to worship ready to be formed and sent out to embody God’s story in everyday life.  Get connected to small groups and classes at st.lukes.org/adults  Go deeper and reflect on the Scriptures on livetherhythm.app

    24 min

  7. JAN 26

    Live All U Can in Community... Practice

    This episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s invites listeners into a reflection on what it truly means to live God’s story in community. As part of the Love University series, Pastor Melissa and Pastor Jad explore Acts 2:42–47, one of the earliest snapshots of the church, highlighting practices of teaching, prayer, shared meals, generosity, and deep connection. Their conversation unpacks how these simple yet radical rhythms challenge modern ideas of independence and ownership, reminding us that faith is formed not in isolation but in shared life together. From small groups and shared tables to generosity, disagreement with grace, and showing up for one another, this episode emphasizes that the church is less about a place we go and more about a people we become... living out the gospel together in tangible, life-giving ways.  Get connected to small groups and classes at st.lukes.org/adults  Go deeper and reflect on the Scriptures on livetherhythm.app

    16 min

  8. JAN 19

    Learn All U Can... Skills and Drills

    In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, we kick off the new year and introduce Love University, St. Luke’s 2026 theme centered on learning to live, love, and lead like Jesus. 3 of our pastors (Jenn, Corey, and Jad) explore St. Luke’s discipleship rhythm—Learn, Live, Love, Lead—and why deep engagement with scripture matters for faithful, thoughtful Christian living today. Drawing from Deuteronomy 11 and Matthew 22, the conversation highlights scripture as a lived, embodied practice that shapes daily life, community, worship, and public witness. The episode invites listeners to grow as “public theologians,” develop lifelong habits of learning God’s story, and take part in upcoming classes and studies designed to help faith take root beyond Sunday mornings.  Get connected to small groups and classes at st.lukes.org/adults  Go deeper and reflect on the Scriptures on livetherhythm.app

    27 min
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A weekly Bible Study to go along with the worship series at St. Luke’s UMC in Orlando, FL. St. Luke’s Pastors and special guests will guide you through the scriptures and offer practical applications for your life!

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  • Creator
    St. Luke’s UMC Orlando
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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    Your Week with St. Luke’s

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