Canton United Methodist Church

Cut for Time: Kronk Gets a Bad Rap!

Pastor Clay and Eric are back from church camp and ready to dig in to Sunday's message and the whole concept of stretcher-bearers. Pastor Clay shares a time when a group of friends were stretcher-bearers to him. And Eric and Pastor Clay discuss where to find the gospel in Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove"

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Sunday Message: Supporting Roles

Scripture: Luke 5:17-26

Series: Let's Go to the Movies

Pastor Clay is back from camp and starting a new message series focused on finding the gospel in movies! To kick the series off, he is looking at Best Supporting Roles in Luke's gospel and the Emperor's New Groove. Who has played a supporting role in your life? Who do you see that needs a best supporting role in their lives?

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Sunday Message: Living in the Kingdom

Scripture: Matthew 25:34-46

With Pastor Clay gone to church camp, the United Women in Faith led the worship service today, including a message from Pastor Jean Layton. Pastor Jean helped us think about what life in God's kingdom can look like. What difference has doing "unto the least of these" made in your life?

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Cut for Time: Thank God Pentecost Happened!

Eric Stearns is back with Pastor Clay to talk about Sunday's Pentecost message. Why does the Holy Spirit matter so much that we have an entire day to celebrate its work? What is the greater context of Pentecost, and how is the Spirit still active in our lives as people of faith? Pastor Clay and Eric discuss all this and more in this week's episode.

Programming note: due to both Eric and Pastor Clay heading to United Methodist Church camps next week there will not be an episode next week. Thanks for sticking with us!

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Sunday Message: Set Free by the Spirit

Scripture: Acts 2

Series: Set Free

Today is Pentecost Sunday, a day for us to go back all the way to the beginning of the church and marvel at how we got to where we are. Unfortunately, how we got here was not always a straight line. Sometimes in our lives the Holy Spirit breaks through and changes everything. What we find sometimes is that God is not ruining everything but rather setting us free to live the lives God intended for us in the first place. 

 

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Cut for Time: Fake It Until You Make It

Pastor Clay and special guest Jenna Stearns sat down to discuss the message from Sunday and the past few weeks of the Set Free series here at the Canton UMC. During their discussion they tap into spiritual practices that help us explore our freedom in Christ and how we share with others what God is up to in our lives.

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Sunday Message: Set Free to Transform the World

Scripture: Galatians 5

 

Series: Set Free

 

Today, as we continue our Set Free series, we're looking at how the Galatians (and we) are set free to change the world around us. Sometimes that takes work in us first, but Jesus' call to witness and change the world is still there. When you look around the world, what do you want to see changed? How can we work toward transformation? 

 

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Cut for Time: Wesleyan Service

Eric and Pastor Clay sat down on Tuesday, May 24, which is Aldersgate Day in the United Methodist Church, for a crash course in Methodist history. How did one group of students launch a movement that is now a global denomination? What does their legacy mean for us?

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Sunday Message: Set Free to Serve

Scripture: Galatians 5:1, 13-15

Series: Set Free! 

Today, as we continue our Set Free series, we're looking at Paul's words to the Galatians. Jesus' resurrection has set us free to serve in His name. What would you do to serve God's world if you were set free?

 

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Cut for Time: Set Free In Christ

Paul says to the Galatians, "For freedom Christ has set you free!" Eric and Pastor Clay sat down to talk about what being free in Christ means. Can we just do whatever we want? No. Jesus guides us into the way we should go, but it might look like someone else's path. We are set free not by our own merits but by Jesus Christ. Let's explore together.

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