Hyde Park United Methodist
Sermons and talks from Hyde Park United Methodist. Making God's Love Real. Find out more at hydeparkumc.org
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 779
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Songs For the Waiting, Part 4 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // December 18, 2022
In the final week of Advent, we explore the unexpected way God came to us as a king. Most stories depict the scene of a returning king with violence and a triumphant, exuberant return to the throne. …
Songs For the Waiting, Part 3 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // December 11, 2022
In our 3rd week of Advent, we discover something a bit...odd. This weeks' song, along with our scripture reading, have a common theme. God is relaying instructions for how to conduct a celebration fo…
Songs For the Waiting, Part 2 // The Rev. Justin LaRosa // December 4, 2022
“But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.”
- Thomas Merton
In the 2nd week of our advent series, we discuss the song "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light." How does one …
Songs For the Waiting, Part 1 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // November 27, 2022
During Advent we are so fixated on the Christmas Carols and texts that we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about Advent Carols and how powerful their meanings can be. "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" is s…
Living With Gratitude, Part 4 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // November 20, 2022
Gratitude on a communal level means joining our resources to meet the greatest needs of our community and world. Diana Butler Bass describes this fourth quadrant in this way: “If you emphasize we and…
Living With Gratitude, Part 3 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // November 13, 2022
Living with Gratitude means orienting our individual actions toward the benefit of others, including the surrender of our personal finances to God. Gratitude is not just an emotional attenuation of …
Living With Gratitude, Part 2 // The Rev. Sally Campbell-Evans // November 6, 2022
On this Sunday we join with Christians around the world in a public act of corporate, emotional gratitude, as we honor the saints who have gone before us. By honoring them, we see our own place in th…
Living With Gratitude, Part 1 // The Rev. Justin LaRosa // October 30, 2022
Living with Gratitude means opening our heart to wonder, awe, and an awareness of God’s blessings in our lives, both great and small. Diana Butler Bass describes this first quadrant of gratitude as P…
The Art of Hearing Gods Voice, Part 7 // The Rev. Dr. Martyn Atkins // October 23, 2022
Matthew 28 contains the words of the Great Commission, the iconic final command of Jesus to the disciples. His charge to “go into all the world” to make disciples makes it a fitting text for our annu…
The Art of Hearing God's Voice, Part 6 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // October 16, 2022
Neurologically speaking, our brains do not shut down when we go to sleep, and our subconscious kicks into gear with processing the flurry of information that we wrestle with during our waking hours. …
The Art of Hearing Gods Voice, Part 5 // The Rev. Sally Campbell-Evans // October 9, 2022
We can all admit that we don’t like to wait. Time moves sometimes like an Arctic glacier. The second hand on the clock seems to tick every five minutes. It’s like someone pressed the giant pause but…
The Art of Hearing God's Voice, Part 4 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // October 2, 2022
One of the hardest parts about hearing God’s voice is when we have to confront so much hurt and brokenness in the world. We wonder what God is doing and saying in the face of such suffering around us…
The Art of Hearing God's Voice, Part 3 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // September 25, 2022
The author of Proverbs describes the life of faith as acknowledging God, so that God can direct our path (steps). That means trusting that God will reveal the journey ahead of us, one step at a time,…
The Art of Hearing God's Voice, Part 2 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // September 18, 2022
It goes without saying, but the first step in hearing God’s voice is having the desire to hear God’s voice. That should go without saying, but there is good news in that reminder. Just like Thomas Me…
The Art of Hearing God's Voice, Part 1 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // September 11, 2022
We are hungry for a sense of purpose, direction, and calling in our lives. That’s as basic an ingredient to the human experience as they come. We want to be part of something bigger than ourselves.…
The Meaning of Methodist, Part 5 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // September 4, 2022
We conclude our worship series “The Meaning of Methodist” this Sunday with one of the chief hallmarks of Methodism. John Wesley observed the concept of the “via media” in developing his practical the…
The Meaning of Methodist, Part 4 // The Rev. Dr. Gary Mason // August 28, 2022
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason of Rethinking Conflict in Belfast, Northern Ireland will be our guest preacher for the day. He can speak to the global nature of the church and the impact that the United Methodis…
The Meaning of Methodist, Part 3 // The Rev. Clarke Campbell-Evans // August 21, 2022
In the Exodus reading, Moses discovered that the task of leading the people and advancing the mission of God among the Israelites was too great for one person to handle. That’s why he created a conne…
The Meaning of Methodist, Part 2 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // August 14, 2022
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed that works of devotion, service, and love are necessary. Not to earn our salvation, but to mature our salvation. And just like a tree that does not be…
The Meaning of Methodist, Part 1 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // August 7, 2022
One of the hallmarks of United Methodism is the nuanced way that John Wesley both embraced human free will and God's grace. Both God's power and human will are necessary for salvation. Yes, we get to…