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IMPORTANT NOTE: Please head over to our new podcast! "St. Andrew UMC Sermon Podcast"

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please head over to our new podcast! "St. Andrew UMC Sermon Podcast"

CURRENT SERIES - The Torch and the Pail What if we removed every transaction from our faith, every promise of reward, every threat of consequence? An ancient Sufi story tells of an angel carrying a torch to burn down the mansions of heaven and a pail to put out the fires of hell so that we might finally see who truly loves God. Not out of fear. Not to earn mercy. Just love, for love’s sake. This series is an invitation to come home to a faith with no strings attached, where perfect love casts out fear, and God desires mercy, not sacrifice. What does it look like to simply love God for the sake of love itself? Come and let’s explore this journey of faith together.

CURRENT SERIES - The Torch and the Pail What if we removed every transaction from our faith, every promise of reward, every threat of consequence? An ancient Sufi story tells of an angel carrying a torch to burn down the mansions of heaven and a pail to put out the fires of hell so that we might finally see who truly loves God. Not out of fear. Not to earn mercy. Just love, for love’s sake. This series is an invitation to come home to a faith with no strings attached, where perfect love casts out fear, and God desires mercy, not sacrifice. What does it look like to simply love God for the sake of love itself? Come and let’s explore this journey of faith together.

CURRENT SERIES - The Torch and the Pail What if we removed every transaction from our faith, every promise of reward, every threat of consequence? An ancient Sufi story tells of an angel carrying a torch to burn down the mansions of heaven and a pail to put out the fires of hell so that we might finally see who truly loves God. Not out of fear. Not to earn mercy. Just love, for love’s sake. This series is an invitation to come home to a faith with no strings attached, where perfect love casts out fear, and God desires mercy, not sacrifice. What does it look like to simply love God for the sake of love itself? Come and let’s explore this journey of faith together.

CURRENT SERIES - The Torch and the Pail What if we removed every transaction from our faith, every promise of reward, every threat of consequence? An ancient Sufi story tells of an angel carrying a torch to burn down the mansions of heaven and a pail to put out the fires of hell so that we might finally see who truly loves God. Not out of fear. Not to earn mercy. Just love, for love’s sake. This series is an invitation to come home to a faith with no strings attached, where perfect love casts out fear, and God desires mercy, not sacrifice. What does it look like to simply love God for the sake of love itself? Come and let’s explore this journey of faith together.

CURRENT SERIES - The Torch and the Pail What if we removed every transaction from our faith, every promise of reward, every threat of consequence? An ancient Sufi story tells of an angel carrying a torch to burn down the mansions of heaven and a pail to put out the fires of hell so that we might finally see who truly loves God. Not out of fear. Not to earn mercy. Just love, for love’s sake. This series is an invitation to come home to a faith with no strings attached, where perfect love casts out fear, and God desires mercy, not sacrifice. What does it look like to simply love God for the sake of love itself? Come and let’s explore this journey of faith together.

CURRENT SERIES - The Torch and the Pail What if we removed every transaction from our faith, every promise of reward, every threat of consequence? An ancient Sufi story tells of an angel carrying a torch to burn down the mansions of heaven and a pail to put out the fires of hell so that we might finally see who truly loves God. Not out of fear. Not to earn mercy. Just love, for love’s sake. This series is an invitation to come home to a faith with no strings attached, where perfect love casts out fear, and God desires mercy, not sacrifice. What does it look like to simply love God for the sake of love itself? Come and let’s explore this journey of faith together.

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CURRENT SERIES - The Space Between Lent calls us into the wilderness—not to reduce our lives to easy answers, but to sit honestly with tension, ambiguity, and transformation. We live in an either/or world that insists on sides, binaries, and quick conclusions. Yet the Gospel of Luke reveals a different way: a faith shaped not by rigid opposites, but by the holy space between them. We will journey with Jesus through moments where life refuses to be neatly divided—and real transformation takes place not at the extremes, but in the living, breathing tension of life and faith.

CURRENT SERIES - The Space Between Lent calls us into the wilderness—not to reduce our lives to easy answers, but to sit honestly with tension, ambiguity, and transformation. We live in an either/or world that insists on sides, binaries, and quick conclusions. Yet the Gospel of Luke reveals a different way: a faith shaped not by rigid opposites, but by the holy space between them. We will journey with Jesus through moments where life refuses to be neatly divided—and real transformation takes place not at the extremes, but in the living, breathing tension of life and faith.

CURRENT SERIES - The Space Between Lent calls us into the wilderness—not to reduce our lives to easy answers, but to sit honestly with tension, ambiguity, and transformation. We live in an either/or world that insists on sides, binaries, and quick conclusions. Yet the Gospel of Luke reveals a different way: a faith shaped not by rigid opposites, but by the holy space between them. We will journey with Jesus through moments where life refuses to be neatly divided—and real transformation takes place not at the extremes, but in the living, breathing tension of life and faith.