Home Worship Aug-Dec 2020

  • Home Worship for Sunday, December 27 2020 - Goodbye to 2020 (a tough year, and that’s an understatement), and to Rev. Betty a person who makes even the toughest year bearable a “Good” bye. Goodbye and Farewell! Scripture Luke 24:50-53; Matthew 28:19 (NIV). "This is Goodbye" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, December 24 2020 - A New Covenant is born to us this day! Jesus is something new that God is doing in the world. Following him means being resilient in the face of a global pandemic. All that we have lost and been through this year leads us to long for something new. Hebrews 8:7-13 (NIV). Anticipation Series: "A New Covenant" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, December 20 2020 - What do you want more than anything else in the world? in this world we can become so focused on things that fill us up, and puff us up we lose focus or never get a glimpse of what is most important in life. If our greatest goal in life is to become more and more like Christ we need to consider all that stuff rubbish. What are we missing if we are unable to give up the old life for the new one? Scripture: Philippians 3:13 NRSV. Message: Anticipation Series "The Journey Ahead" by Rev. Betty Kniss.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, December 13 2020 - A sermon for the third Sunday in Advent based on Isaiah 42:9 God's doing a new thing. It's cause for rejoicing but oh! where we have been up to now! Isaiah 42: 5-9 MSG. Anticipation Series: "A New Joy" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, December 6 2020 - How do you define "Love"? Jesus talks about love in John's gospel using terms like "commandment". Paul is faced with the need to define Christ-like love to the Corinthians. Maybe that type of love is new to you too. John 15: 9-17 NIV. Message: Anticipation Series "A New Love" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, November 29 2020 - In this passage in Isaiah, we see Israel loved by God, redeemed cared for and ultimately God asks them to forget the past and perceive what new thing God is doing. Isaiah 43:1-19 (CEB). Message: Advent Anticipation Series "A New Thing, Hope" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, November 22 2020 - It is not enough to acclaim Jesus Christ as our Lord and King. Our mission in life is to make his kingdom a reality among us and to bring it to those around us by our words and deeds. Matthew 25: 31-46 (CEB). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Lord, When Did We See You?" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, November 15 2020 - To live into the kingdom of heaven that these parables describes means being ready to present ourselves to God not as maintainers of the bare minimum, but as faithful investors who lived fully into the lives God gave us. Matthew 25: 14-30 (NRSV). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Hiding in a Hole is No Ground to Stand On" by Rev. Betty Kniss.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, November 8 2020 - The preparation by schlepping all that extra oil to the party represents FAITH! It is faith that the bridegroom will eventually come and the least and the lost and the broken are included. Matthew 25: 1-13 (CEB). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "The Virtue of Preparation" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, November 1 2020 - Entire service was a collection of memorials for Oceanview persons who have died this past year. Special "The Lord's Prayer" dance by Oceanview's Sacred Dance team. 

  • Home Worship for Sunday, October 25 2020 - Let’s face it. We are all broken. And this brokenness leads some of us to take refuge in rules. Laws are good. But we must be careful with them because laws can form a judgment; whereas love forms relationships. Matthew 22:34-46 (NIV). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "The Greatest Commandment" by Rev. Betty Kniss.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, October 18 2020 - Youth Tributes and Remembrances. Matthew 5:14-16 (ESV). Message: Youth Tributes by Jade Kelley, Mary McGee, Alannah Rogers, Stephanie Sterling, Ella Perra, Bonnie, Kat and Lindsay Hammond.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, October 11 2020 - Why do we reject the garment of righteousness and try to "go it alone"? Matthew 22: 1-14 (NIV). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "The Wedding Banquet" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, October 4 2020 - What do we do with this parable? Violence and conspiring...is that anyway to treat the vineyard owner's messengers? Matthew 21: 33-46 (NIV). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Wicked Tenants" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, September 27 2020 - The Roman centurion was the only person in Mark's gospel to truly recognize Jesus for who he really was. Matthew 21: 23-32 (NIV). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Prostitutes, Skater Kids, and All Other Manner of Sinners Welcome" by Rev. Betty Kniss.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, September 20 2020 - The vineyard owner hires the workers at the daily rate. Scripture: Matthew 20: 1-16 (NIV). Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Equity" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, September 13 2020 - Special service prepared by our Florida Conference United Methodist Church. Message: Serving together in times of crisis and uncertainty. We have much to be thankful for! 

  • Home Worship for Sunday, September 6 2020 - How can we handle conflicts with our brothers and sisters in Christ that reconcile us to the community of faith. Scripture: Matthew 18: 15-20. Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Seldom Offend and Don't be Offended" by Rev. Betty Kniss.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, August 20 2020 - The kingdom of God looks just like this, we, giving ourselves to one another in sacrificial love after the example of Jesus Christ our Lord. Do we need to say any more about it? What does sacrificial love look like in 2020? Scripture: Matthew 16: 21-28. Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, August 23 2020 - The church that Jesus meant to build on Peter, a person, is a community of people defined by who we are in Jesus Christ. Scripture: Matthew 16: 13-20. Message: Kingdom Parables Series "Who You Say I Am" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, August 16 2020 - The source of contamination comes from within. With imaginative curiosity, give others the chance to show great faith like this Canaanite woman. Matthew 15: 10-20; 21-28. Message: Kingdom Parables Series "The Source of Contamination" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, August 9 2020 - What you may be going through now could be a catalyst for something better that you never could imagine on your own. Genesis 37: 1-4, 12-28 NAS. Message: Kingdom Parable Series "Hindsight 20/20" by Pastor Emily Denmark McGee.

  • Home Worship for Sunday, August 2 2020 - The blessing usually comes in a wounding of some sort and for most of us it is an entire life of limping along to finally see the true and real blessings in our life Genesis 32: 22-31 NIV. Message: Kingdom Parables Series "It's the Struggle That Matters" by Rev. Betty Kniss.