Asbury Crestwood United Methodist Church

09/03/2026

Join us as we celebrate the Crestwood Library's 100th Anniversary.

Link in the comments to reserve free tickets for this concert.

09/01/2026

From "Perfect Harmony" preached by Pastor Jason at Asbury on August 30.

"Dolly Parton died this week, a breaking news story that touched disparate corners of this country like few others can.

Who else will be mourned this weekend in gay dance clubs and evangelical churches alike?

Only Dolly.

Even more than her talent as a songwriter and a musician, Dolly’s true genius, it seems, was her love for people. I think that’s why so many mourn her death. They mourn because, even though they never met her, they believed that she cared about them, that when she said, as she so often did, that she "just loved people,” she meant it, and that her love included all of us.

By putting people above everything else, Dolly had a special way of getting us to appreciate and think about things that really matter, about holy things, and the ways of Jesus, and it was her death that got me thinking about a story from the Gospels."

https://jasonatjohnstreet.blogspot.com/2026/08/perfect-harmony-colossians-312-14.html?fbclid=IwcGRvZgRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFWelVwVlQxSFdBMkhYTWZnc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQBMAABHrNXo7dLLGLhaKbiBSX_xyGsdlL7EA8gIoYBqXRJwkZqTMGlWJr9iNhxxGM9_aem_EhkWxeOAnWEwXbJtntGqsw

Dolly Parton died this week, a breaking news story that touched disparate corners of this country like few others can. Who else will be...

08/23/2026

From "How to Pray in a Food Fight" (full sermon in link)

When we’re honest about it, it’s very easy for our prayer lives to share some things in common with that food fight described in Acts 6.

Praying for ourselves, our families, and the people we love comes as naturally for us as breaking bread with people with whom we have everything in common.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

The Gospel just invites us to go beyond it.

Prayers for forgiveness, to forgive others, for our enemies, for leaders that we don’t like and whose actions we find repellant—these don’t come naturally at all. They’re more like a chore that we put off doing for as long as possible, if we ever get around to doing it at all.

That’s why we need to open ourselves to the Spirit’s movements and the Wisdom of the Ages.

Sermons by Jason Radmacher at Asbury Church in Tuckahoe, NY

08/10/2026

From "Don't Cover Your Scars" Pastor Jason's second sermon in the series "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Link to full sermon is in the comments.

Bono sings, "Don't cover your scars."

Now you don’t need to make a spectacle of them either. They’re your scars, it’s your experience, your story, and, ultimately, you should get to tell it or show it how and when you choose to, but this lyric points to a path that leads to freedom found in owning our story and scars–what people mean when they talk about knowing their truth–and discovering that there’s a lot of power in what once felt like weakness.

The interplay between power and weakness is a recurring theme in the Bible, especially in the letters of Saint Paul, and meditating on the relationship between the two is one of the more radical and important spiritual exercises in which we can engage.

Father Richard Rohr brought up this point in a sermon taken from 2 Corinthians 12. That’s the chapter where Paul confesses that he has this enigmatic “thorn in his flesh” that he asked the Lord to remove, but that Lord told him to learn to live with it instead, saying, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Cor. 12:9)

08/04/2026

We started on summer worship series on Sunday. It's called "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Here's a passage of Pastor Jason's sermon.

So, why do we pray?

Because there are people, situations, tragedies, triumphs, aspirations, challenges, hardships, and celebrations on our minds and in our hearts, and since God cares about us, since God so loves the world, then it’s only natural that God would take an interest in those things, too.

Part of loving someone is being invested in what’s happening in their lives, and God is invested in you, and me, and this planet that we share with everybody else.

That is why we pray.

Sweet Hour of Prayer: Week 1 It wasn’t too long after Dana, the kids, and I arrived at my parents’ house earlier this summer t...

07/31/2026

With Asbury Nursery School’s and Enrichment’s summer programs wrapping up today, we hit the ground running and started replacing windows in the classrooms and office suites.

07/30/2026

Asbury's is once again supporting ECAP's efforts to provide backpacks for students in our community.

To help the cause, you may deliver a new backpack to ECAP's office at 142 Main St, Tuckahoe, or give to the church's current mission offering (see link in comments).

07/26/2026

There’s a certain level of ridiculousness at play in Paul’s message to the Romans. The idea that a group gathered together in the name of an executed Jewish carpenter could accomplish anything significant, much less overcome and offer an alternative to the ideological pull of the Roman Empire was beyond foolish.

Couple that with the group’s inherent contradictions—the diversity of the members’ religious backgrounds and economic clout, for example–and the Church’s prospect for being anything more than a bunch of religious weirdos who simply flamed out were laughable.

Honestly, it was most likely that the Church would fall apart because the members would fall back into old habits and prejudices and turn against one another, but even if they overcame that monumental challenge to their survival, the Empire was always there to enforce its idolatrous and authoritarian agenda with violence.

An impassioned speech delivered by Charlie Chaplin as he plays a character meant to mock Adolf Hi**er in the final scene of the 1940 fil...

07/19/2026

“Hard Times” is a song for those who have “gone through it” or have been “up against it,” who have survived their ordeal and don’t want to go back.

The chorus expresses this thought with a plea, almost a prayer, to keep trouble away.

‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;
Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

Of course, one of the reasons the song endures is that hard times have a way of not keeping their distance.

This is a sermon about hard times. More specifically, this is a sermon about finding the strength and the will to put one foot in front of the other and move forward even when you’re tempted to believe that if you just stay put, nothing else can go wrong.

In that way, this is a sermon about dealing with the hard times that settle in on us–the type of hardship that is the first thing we think of when we wake up, the last thing on our mind when we finally fall asleep, and the stuff that hovers over us every waking hour.

Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor: There’s a song that will linger forever...

07/07/2026

Our summer picnic on the church grounds is Sunday, July 19 after worship. Come and join us.