Livingston United Methodist Church

Livingston United Methodist Church Livingston United Methodist Church is a small church that shows God's love by serving others.

This Sunday falls near the anniversary of Stonewall—a moment when people decided to claim themselves anyway, no matter w...
06/17/2026

This Sunday falls near the anniversary of Stonewall—a moment when people decided to claim themselves anyway, no matter what the world had told them. We believe God has always been ahead of that claiming. Before you had words for who you are, you were already beloved. Already known. Already held.

That's the word we're sitting with this week: Claimed. Not as something imposed, but as something spoken over you with tenderness, from the very beginning. And nothing that has happened since has changed that. You are of more value than many sparrows. 🕊️ Come as you are. You belong here.

To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/. To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Paul’s chain of transformation—suffering, endurance, character, hope—is not a prosperity gospel. It does not say sufferi...
06/10/2026

Paul’s chain of transformation—suffering, endurance, character, hope—is not a prosperity gospel. It does not say suffering is good. It says suffering does not get the last word. And for communities that have been targeted by religious violence, told their love is a sin, pushed out of churches and families and belonging, that distinction matters enormously.

This month, we remember that Pride began as a riot—an act of resistance by people who were harassed and helpless and decided to show up anyway. That is endurance. That is character. That is hope. And Paul says the hope that comes from that kind of endurance does not disappoint—because the love of God has already been poured into the hearts of the people the world tried to crush.

Jesus looks at the crowds and sees them clearly: harassed, helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He is not disgusted. He is moved with compassion. He sends his disciples out to do the same work—cure the sick, raise the dead, give without payment. The congregation that is still showing up is also being sent.

To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/. To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

The Pharisees are doing what gatekeepers always do: policing the table, managing access, deciding who is in and who is o...
06/03/2026

The Pharisees are doing what gatekeepers always do: policing the table, managing access, deciding who is in and who is out. Jesus is doing what Jesus always does: eating with whoever shows up, healing whoever reaches for him, refusing to let death have the last word over a little girl everyone had already mourned. Paul’s argument in Romans 4 runs in the same direction. The promise to Abraham did not come through religious achievement—it came through faith, through grace, and it was always meant to reach further than the insiders wanted. “The father of many nations” is not the father of the religiously compliant. It is the father of everyone who hopes against hope that God is able to do what God has promised.

The God of Scripture has never been as small as the gatekeepers wanted. The ones who were told they were too far out to come in—they are exactly who Jesus is walking toward.

To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/. To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

The Great Commission is Trinitarian at its core, and the Trinity is the original image of difference-in-unity. Three dis...
05/27/2026

The Great Commission is Trinitarian at its core, and the Trinity is the original image of difference-in-unity. Three distinct persons, one God. Not uniformity, but communion. Paul’s benediction in his letter to the church in Corinth lands like a gift: grace, love, communion. These are not abstractions; they are the shape of what God is, and therefore the shape of what we are sent to embody. This is the theological foundation for everything that follows.

We will explore what it means that God’s own inner life is relational—that before anything was created, before any human being drew breath, God was already in relationship. This is a God who does not need us to complete the divine life, but who chooses to include us anyway. That is grace. And we are sent in the name of that grace, that love, that communion. Go. I am with you always.

To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/. To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Join us on Sunday as we celebrate the birth of the Church - the moment God's Spirit descended upon the earliest Jesus fo...
05/20/2026

Join us on Sunday as we celebrate the birth of the Church - the moment God's Spirit descended upon the earliest Jesus followers like a mighty wind, enlivening them to continue the work of sharing the good news! To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/

To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

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200 E Livingston Avenue
Columbus, OH
43215

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(614) 224-2006

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