Pursuing Jesus
Messages from First United Methodist Church of Pittsburg, TX. Most are by Dr. Richard Heyduck.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Seeing People
What could be the consequences of our learning to see people the way Jesus sees them?
Tue 03 Jan 2023
The Big Story
There's a "big story," a large narrative, that connects the Bible from beginning to end. God invites us to be willing and active participants in this story.
Tue 03 Jan 2023
The Scripture Way of Salvation
John Wesley found prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying grace in his sermon on Ephesians 2. The Methodist tradition has followed him on this. That understanding of grace reflects what we see in sc…
Mon 02 Jan 2023
The Key to the Community
The Samaritan woman Jesus talks with at a well proves to be the key to reaching her community. Who might be the key to reaching our community?
Mon 02 Jan 2023
When God Volunteers Us
In Acts 9 we see God calling Ananias and giving him an important task - without consulting him at all. Sometimes God volunteers us without consulting us.
Mon 02 Jan 2023
Discerning God's Work
In Acts 9 we find some clues to how we can discern God's work in our lives and in the world.
Mon 02 Jan 2023
The Road to Texarkana
Paul ran into Jesus on the Road to Damascus. From his experience we can learn to tell our own stories of running into Jesus.
Mon 02 Jan 2023
The Mark of a Healthy Church
If we listen to Jesus (and the rest of the New Testament), we can see that love is an indispensable marker of a healthy church. I John 4:7-21 is the core text
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Change is Hard
In John 3 some people come to provoke John the Baptist to play the comparison game with Jesus. John's response? "He must become greater, I must become less." How can we learn from John to find the p…
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Waiting on the Spirit
In Acts 1:1-8 Jesus says to WAIT on the "promised Holy Spirit."
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Living Like Jesus Reigns
The New Testament teaches that Jesus is crucified, risen, ascended, and reigning at the Father's side. But when we look at the world is sure doesn't look like he's in charge. What can we make of tha…
Mon 13 Jun 2022
When People Are Wrong
Jesus and Paul give us examples of what to do when people are wrong.
Tue 24 May 2022
It Is Finished
Jesus's finished work on the cross is sufficient for us. He invites us to live out of that finished work.
Tue 24 May 2022
The Two Ways
In Matthew 7 Jesus sets up some comparative binaries: Wide way, narrow way; false prophets, true prophets; false disciples, true disciples; wise and foolish people.
Tue 24 May 2022
Death Defeated
The women went to Jesus' tomb early that Sunday. They knew Jesus had died, an obviously failed Messiah, but wanted to honor him by completing the burial customs for him. They found something they di…
Tue 24 May 2022
Jesus the Prophet Enters Jerusalem
Those who welcome Jesus into Jerusalem, welcome him as a prophet. But he was more than a prophet.
Tue 24 May 2022
The Kingdom Starts Small
We find several parable of Jesus in Matthew 13. Each gives the hearer an aspect of what the Kingdom is like. In the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven, we see that God's starts small. When …
Thu 07 Apr 2022
What About the Weeds?
Jesus' parable about the wheat and the weeds helps us understand how to deal with the quest for purity.
Thu 07 Apr 2022
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