Sedgwick United Methodist Church

12/14/2025

Unfortunately, today we have to cancel services due to the heat unit not being able to keep up with the extreme bitter temps. We had a part replaced yesterday, but evidently that wasn’t the issue. 

We will light two advent candles when we reconvene next week!  Today is the Sunday we would light the Joy candle. We will rejoice no matter our circumstances, and know that God is present with us!!

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11/29/2025

Join us Sunday, November 30 at 11, for the first Sunday in Advent, as we prepare our hearts for the birth of the Savior!

10/14/2025

Half-Hearted Devotion
October 14

“Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. … He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.”
-2 Chronicles 25:1-2

Amaziah was a young man when he became king. The Bible says he did right in God’s eyes – but not with his whole heart. His half-hearted commitment to God became evident when he defeated the Edomites in battle and brought their gods home with him as spoils of war. King Amaziah conquered the Edomites, but their little gods conquered his heart.
This can happen to us, too, if we allow the idols of this world to conquer our hearts. Half-hearted devotion to God diminishes the effectiveness of our lives and weakens our witness to the world. How do we prevent this from happening? By being wholeheartedly committed to Christ in every area of our lives. Then, we can do right in the sight of the Lord with a WHOLE heart, and make a difference for Him in this world! So I ask you now – Are you wholeheartedly “sold out” to Christ?

04/15/2025

Enjoy this musical re-post, on this Tuesday of Holy Week. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

02/09/2025

We will not be able to meet today due to the church heat being out, and with the cold and damp weather. The heat went out a couple of weeks ago; we have had several HVAC technicians in to look, and they are working on a plan and options for us, but we just don’t have the final quotes yet and the work is not yet completed. Please be in prayer for our world, our community, and our church. We will keep you updated as soon as we can resume services. Thank you.

01/11/2025

Due to residual wintry travel conditions in rural areas and side roads, we will not have service this week. We will reconvene January 19, 2025, and resume our study of Ephesians. Stay safe, and may God bless each of you!

11/28/2024

A Heart of Gratitude

Today, take time to make a list of reasons to give thanks to God.

In Ephesians 5:20, we’re told, “Always give thanks for everything to our God and Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (TLB). As this month’s Getting Started page acknowledged, that might seem easy when life’s going well. But if painful circumstances arise, expressing gratitude can be difficult.
The apostle Paul, who penned today’s passage, knew his riches in Christ Jesus far outweighed any earthly discomfort. Consider the blessings he so valued, which are available to all believers.
First of all, we are invited to have a personal relationship with the one true God—the sovereign, omniscient, and omnipresent Lord of all creation. Second, our Creator loves us with an everlasting and unconditional love. Third, He sent His Son to rescue us so we could spend eternity with Him. As a result, when we place our trust in Jesus, we are freed from the fear of death.
And the list of blessings keeps going: God adopts believers as His children and seals them with His Spirit (Ephesians 4:30). He promises to meet every need through His limitless resources (Philippians 4:19) and provides His Word and indwelling Spirit to guide us.
No wonder Paul was grateful! Review the blessings you listed yesterday, and think of any additional reasons to give thanks. As you do, be sure to count Paul’s blessings as your own.

((RELATED SCRIPTURE
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Ephesians 5:20

Ephesians 4:30

Philippians 4:19

1 Corinthians 4-6

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍁

10/23/2024

Have you ever considered that your true home is heaven, in the presence of our Holy Father? It is not God who is distant. Instead, it is you and I. And that is why Christ came: to bring us home.

Read Luke 15:11-24. In the parable of the prodigal son, Jesus makes this plain. It is the younger son who leaves for a distant country, while the father remains at home. The distance between them is caused by the son's selfishness; the father has not moved. The son made the mistake of wanting the father's blessings more than a relationship with his father. When he asked for his share of the inheritance, he was essentially telling his father, "I don't want you. I only want what you can give me." Can you think of a more hurtful thing to say? But this is what many of us say to our heavenly Father. We want His blessings, but we don't want to take the time to really get to know His heart.

And so, like that prodigal son, we find ourselves in a far country. God seems so distant, and the blessings without the Father do not bring the lasting happiness we had hoped for. When the prodigal in Jesus' parable was at his lowest point, the Bible says, "[H]e came to his senses" (15:17). In other words, he had a moment of clarity. He remembered his true home—and how good his father was to him.

This is why we can never give up hope, no matter how lost someone may be. We never know when God will cause someone to long for their true home in a way that leads to repentance and a relationship with Jesus Christ. The prodigal son wasn't wrong about his father's kindness. Though he planned to return home as a mere servant, the father wouldn't hear of it. He loved his son too much for that and restored all his rights and privileges as a son in good standing.

This is the miracle of the Gospel: Though we deserve death, God welcomes us home. And though we come as servants, He makes us sons and daughters. To all those wandering in the far country, God reaches out and says, "It's time to come home."

Prayer: Father, thank You for making me Your child. Help me to share about the wonders of Your love and lead more prodigals to come home to You as You call. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him" (Luke 15:20).

08/05/2024

'This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation'
Isaiah 25: 9

05/03/2024

Sometimes our tears are all we have to offer. God understands that! He loves us! Amen!

Lamenting What Is Lost
Offering our tears to God requires faith that He is able and willing.
May 3, 2024

Nehemiah 1:3-11
Is it possible for grieving to be an act of worship? Consider today’s passage about Nehemiah, an Israelite who served as cupbearer to the king of Babylon. Nehemiah sat down and wept for days when he learned Jerusalem’s walls had been destroyed, leaving his people defenseless. Yet his tears weren’t just a simple outpouring of strong emotion. Through weeping, fasting, and prayer, Nehemiah allowed his distress to lead him into deeper communion with God.
Shedding tears over what was lost—giving full expression to his pain—was an essential component of Nehemiah’s prayerful turning toward God. His bold display of sorrow was an affirmation of his belief that God alone was capable of restoring Jerusalem and her people to their former glory. As he prayed, Nehemiah reminded God of His promise to gather the exiles and dwell permanently among His people (vv. 8-9).
As Christians, we can sometimes interpret another person’s outward display of grief as a lack of faith. Why are they crying, we may wonder, if they truly trust God? But Nehemiah’s example shows us that taking time to lament what we have lost can be an act of worship. When we are in pain, God invites us to cling to His promises and offer our tears to Him as devotion—even if they are all we have to give.

03/31/2024

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! (Luke 24: 1-6)

This is our promise! This is our hope! This is the Good News! It is free and it is for you and for me and for anyone who wants it! Join us at 11 to praise Him and to hear more! And if you can’t make it, just remember, Jesus loves you!