Waiting on A Miracle

First-Centenary United Methodist

Waiting on A Miracle

April 24, 2022 • Rev. Dr. Will Lauderback • Luke 24:13–30

This is the Sunday after Easter and we pick up with the resurrection
story by joining the disciples on the road to Emmaus. The one that they thought would be the messiah, the one who would redeem Israel, had been violently taken from them. They were afraid, alone, and confused. They probably felt duped because they had left jobs, friends, and family to follow this Rabbi and now they had nothing to show for it. Mirabel has spent her life feeling like she had messed up, missed the mark, and wasn’t good enough. How many of us have felt that way from time to time and found ourselves
waiting on a miracle to change things? Lucky for us we believe in a God of
Resurrection, second chances, and new creation? What miracle are you waiting on? How might a resurrection life bring about a miracle in your day to day life?

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Watch The Miracle Burn

June 5, 2022 • Rev. Dr. Will Lauderback • Acts 2:1–20

How might the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit inspire you to burn for all the world to see? Impact your relationships? Families? Community? World? I wonder how the church might come alive in the movement of the Spirit when we have worked through our trauma, work to heal our relationships, and get past our need for perfection?

Lay Down Your Load

May 29, 2022 • Rev. Dr. Will Lauderback • 1 Corinthians 12

We don’t have to do it alone. We weren’t meant to do it alone. How might the gift of Christian community empower us to live a spirit filled life of love? It is difficult to live in community but when we open our hearts, minds, and lives to it amazing things can happen.

What Really Matters

May 22, 2022 • Rev. Dr. Will Lauderback • Luke 15:11–32, 1 Corinthians 13:13—14:1

The grandmother in the movie was too focused on the community’s image of her family and what they could do that she forgot the source of their “power” was love. We have a tendency to focus on certain aspects of the Christian life/church life: Attendance, church size, money, prestige, political/theological ideologies, etc. and when we become hyper focused on worldly things our ability to sense the movement of the Holy Spirit diminishes and we lose focus on what really matters.