Cherry Point United Methodist Church

06/24/2026

The lament of David flows from sorrow and desperation to joy and confidence in God. It feels very human to me.
Haven’t we all wondered if God still remembered our names? Human nature takes us through both the experiences of doubt and the experience of strength in the arms of God.
Where are you today? Are you singing a lament or are your hands raised with voice lifted in praise?

Psalm 13

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall. 5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me.

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06/23/2026

06/23/2026

The truth is, following God has always been a difficult path. People have been mocked, shamed, beaten, and killed for choosing God.
Think about the moment you knew your heart belonged to God. Did you hide that change in your life from certain people? Did you try to compartmentalize who you were becoming in order to keep the peace in relationships?
Faith in God with all of its challenges, should also fill us in ways that radiate from our choices in life. Faith allows each hardship to be met with the knowledge that God is with us…now and for evermore.


Genesis 22:9-14
New International Version
9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

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06/22/2026

Our scripture reading today is incredibly challenging. God is testing Abraham in a way that feels cruel. He is asked to give up the one thing that matters the most to him.
Faith is easy when everything is going well. It becomes more difficult when we feel God calling us down a road that we simply do not want to travel.
This week try out a new way of growing closer to God. Maybe it’s listening to an app like The Pray as You Go app. Maybe try a great podcast, or make a playlist of songs that fill your heart.
Be intentional with your efforts to grow closer to God tomorrow than you were today. Developing the faith of Abraham will take intent, focus, and endurance.

Genesis 22 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

The Daily Grind is a ministry of Cherry Point UMC. Join us for any of the happenings this week!

06/21/2026

Come Join us each Sunday!
Worship Service 10:00am
Chosen Bible Study 4:00pm
Tuesday
Adult Bible Study 10:00am

06/19/2026

Are you tired of fighting the same old battles? 🌱

What if the secret to freedom isn't trying harder, but realizing the old you has already been left behind? Join us this Sunday as we dive into Romans 6 and discover what it means to be truly "dead to sin and alive in Christ." It’s time to step out of the past and walk in the breath of new life! 🙏✨

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06/19/2026

“Creating disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world,” is a tall order! Isn’t my presence in the pew each week enough?
The verses today remind us that we care called to not just know the good news ourselves, but to share it with others. We want to share the good news AND then equip others to do the same.
How can you in your own daily life, teach others about the Jesus you have come to know? How can you show them what you’ve learned?

Matthew 10:24-32
New International Version
24 “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

26 “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. 28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.[a] 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

32 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

We have to lose our life to gain it? That sounds terrifying. In reality, following Jesus is never easy or exceedingly comfortable. Instead it’s complicated, messy, and requires us to SHOW people who we follow by the way we live our lives.
We can sit in a church pew every Sunday but if we never take what we have learned and share it with someone, we are making the good news message murky at best.
If we on the other hand, live lives in which we often show mercy, seek out those on the margins, and are very clear about what justice looks like in this world… they will have a living and breathing example of the “ so what now” question that follows the church service.

32 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.

34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[a]
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

06/17/2026

Can you remember a time when you felt completely renewed in Christ Jesus? Maybe you felt free of your old life and were now fully engaged in this new thing happening.
Often, the newness wears off quickly as the world begins to remind us of our mistakes, our sins, our human weaknesses. Someone is always trying to rip away the shiny new way we’ve been living.
How can we protect ourselves from being pulled back into a life and way of thinking that we have given to God and moved away from? How can we strengthen our confidence in the love of God enough to act as a shield from the darts the world throws our way?
Grace is ours. Love is ours. Forgiveness and mercy are ours. We are his beloved children.

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

The Daily Grind is a ministry of Cherry Point UMC. We invite you to join us for any of the things happening on our calendar! Worship begins at 10:00am in person and online.