Centenary United Methodist Church

09/06/2026

We continue our sermon series on how God invites us to leadership by exploring how we are supposed to deal with conflict. Jesus gives us a four-step process. The world might look quite differently if only we would follow his directions for overcoming disasgreements.

08/30/2026

We continue our Year of Invitation with a four-week series on how we are invited to be leaders. This week, we explore how we can accept that God calls us to service. We learn from the story of Moses and the burning bush.

08/24/2026

We start a three-sermon series on how God invites us to be leaders in the world by looking at the idea of how power plays a role in our leadership. But it's often not the way the world sees power. Through the story of two midwives, we learn that we are called to use our small bits of power in ways to help others.

08/17/2026

We explore the second half of the story of Elijah and see how we, too, can be blown over by violent winds of life, have the world shake underneath us like an earthquake, and be burned by the flames of our mistakes in life. When we pause, though, to truly listen for God's call in our lives, we can hear the still, small voice. God most often speaks to us in a quiet voice instead of the show of power that we often want.

08/09/2026

We start a two-week series on the most famous story involving Elijah. In this first installment, we hear the story of how Elijah mocked the 450 prophets of Baal, and through his actions we learn that even the most beloved of our biblical heroes make mistakes — just like we do today. Elijah is on the highest of highs on Mt. Carmel, so how does he hit bottom so quickly?

06/19/2026

Important historical significance to this day!

The Great Plains Conference pauses today to commemorate Juneteenth, a day to commemorate when the last enslaved people finally received word that they were free. God calls us to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with our God. May we continue to work for equity for all persons, as Jesus taught and showed us during his ministry on Earth.

06/14/2026

We explore how we've all been chosen to belong to God's Kingdom. Using a short passage from 1 Peter, we learn about how we are meant to explore our faith together and that we all have "our people" whom we can invite to be part of our larger circle of faith.

05/24/2026

On Pentecost Sunday, explore how the Holy Spirit invites us to gain knowledge and then to accept wisdom to put that knowledge to work for the Kingdom of God on Earth.

05/17/2026

Our new sound system hasn't been installed yet, but we found a way to record this week's sermon. We apologize the audio isn't as clear as possible. We hope to have a much better exprience next week.
Today, we explore the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well to learn what it means for God to invite us all to belong. We all have a seat at the table, so what can we do to ensure people who have not yet heard the good news understand that they, too, have a seat reserved for them?

05/10/2026

Our sound board died unexpectedly, so we couldn't record this week. We hope to be able to at least record the service next week.