Asbury-St. James United Methodist Church

Asbury-St. James United Methodist Church All are welcome at Asbury-St. James UMC in downtown Charleston for worship Sunday mornings at 11:15.
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Avoiding conflict feels easier—until the silence starts doing damage.In Matthew 18:15–20 and “Dealing with Sin??,” Pasto...
09/05/2026

Avoiding conflict feels easier—until the silence starts doing damage.

In Matthew 18:15–20 and “Dealing with Sin??,” Pastor Tim Shaw explores how honest, direct conversations can protect dignity, repair trust, and keep conflict from becoming public spectacle.

Sunday morning @ 11:15, in person or online. Link below.

Love is more than a feeling. It is how we treat people when kindness costs us something.Romans 13:8–14 asks what we owe ...
09/04/2026

Love is more than a feeling. It is how we treat people when kindness costs us something.

Romans 13:8–14 asks what we owe one another in a divided world: dignity, honesty, and care that reaches beyond our own circles.

Sunday morning @ 11:15, in person or online. Link below.

You are more than what you produce.Psalm 148:1–8 imagines a world where creation has value before it accomplishes anythi...
09/03/2026

You are more than what you produce.

Psalm 148:1–8 imagines a world where creation has value before it accomplishes anything. This Labor Day weekend, we remember that work can matter without becoming the measure of a human life.

Sunday morning @ 11:15, in person or online. Link below.

08/31/2026

Peter thought he was helping. Jesus called it something else.

It's one of the sharpest exchanges in the Gospels — a well-meaning protest, met with a rebuke nobody expected.

Good intentions and God's plan don't always line up. And sometimes the hardest thing to hear is that your "help" is actually resistance.

What are you doing with the thing you wish would just go away?Some hard seasons can’t be fixed on your schedule. Sunday’...
08/31/2026

What are you doing with the thing you wish would just go away?

Some hard seasons can’t be fixed on your schedule. Sunday’s conversation got into perfectionism, suffering, fruitcake of all things, and the slow work of becoming someone different.

What’s something you understand now that you couldn’t have understood five years ago?

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Hard seasons can either harden you or clarify you.Pastor Tim Shaw explores Matthew 16:21–28 and “Overcoming Trials”—how ...
08/29/2026

Hard seasons can either harden you or clarify you.

Pastor Tim Shaw explores Matthew 16:21–28 and “Overcoming Trials”—how following Jesus doesn’t remove difficulty, but reshapes how we carry it. This Gospel speaks to anyone learning courage under pressure.

Sunday morning @ 11:15, in person or online. Link below.

You don’t have to become what hurt you.Romans 12 challenges the instinct to retaliate, escalate, or let bitterness take ...
08/28/2026

You don’t have to become what hurt you.

Romans 12 challenges the instinct to retaliate, escalate, or let bitterness take over. It asks whether we can meet hostility without letting hostility reshape us.

Sunday morning @ 11:15, in person or online. Link below.

You don’t have to feel ready to take the next step.Exodus 3 follows Moses as he questions whether he is capable of what’...
08/27/2026

You don’t have to feel ready to take the next step.

Exodus 3 follows Moses as he questions whether he is capable of what’s being asked of him. The answer isn’t confidence first—it’s movement despite uncertainty.

Sunday morning @ 11:15, in person or online. Link below.

08/24/2026

Everyone needs someone to believe in them.

Because when a child repeatedly hears “stupid,” “lazy,” “unattractive,” “too heavy,” or “too skinny,” those words don’t always disappear with childhood.

Sometimes they become the voice an adult carries around for years.

What happens when somebody believes in you before you believe in yourself?Sunday’s conversation got surprisingly persona...
08/24/2026

What happens when somebody believes in you before you believe in yourself?

Sunday’s conversation got surprisingly personal: grandparents, kids, unanswered texts, old words we’re still carrying years later.

Sometimes “it takes a village” really means somebody bothered to notice.

Who was that person for you?

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754 Rutledge Avenue
Charleston, SC
29403

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(843) 722-2826

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