Hyde Park United Methodist
Sermons and talks from Hyde Park United Methodist. Making God's Love Real. Find out more at hydeparkumc.org
Episodes
684 episodes
Living Impact: Built to Last, Part 1 // The Rev. Justin LaRosa // September 22, 2024
A natural and important follow-up to our 125th Anniversary Celebration is a season of recommitment to grow deeper as disciples, wider in our reach to others, and united in mission to love God and love all. This five-part series reviews the five...
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Celebrating 125 Years of Making God's Love Real, Part 3 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // Sept. 15, 2024
Stories from our heritage not only tell us about our past. They remind us of who we are. Such is the story of our church’s beginning, back in 1899, when a small group chose to sing “I Love to Tell the Story” at the site of what would become our...
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Beyond the Sermon: What Thread Runs Through Your Life?
This week Mat sits down with former senior pastor of Hyde Park, Jim Harnish, with the topic of discovering and recognizing continuing threads of your life in the both spiritual and historical sense. HydeParkUMC.org/nextsteps
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Living Impact: 125 Years of Making God’s Love Real, Part 2 // The Rev. Jim Harnish // September 8, 2024
The writer of Hebrews scans over the long history of men and women who lived by faith, some of it in gory detail! But then the text looks directly at us to say that God’s story will not be perfect (complete, whole) without us. We have the...
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Beyond the Sermon: The Church's One Foundation
As Hyde Park begins its celebration of 125 years, Magrey and Mat sit down to discuss what it means to have a spiritual legacy.HydeParkUMC.org/nextsteps
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Living Impact: 125 Years of Making God’s Love Real, Part 1 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // September 1, 2024
In 1899, a group of 30 people from First Methodist in Tampa crossed the Hillsborough River to begin meeting in a two-room schoolhouse at the corner of Platt and Magnolia. 125 years later, we are living into a legacy that has proclaimed the good...
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Beyond the Sermon: Resolving Conflict
This week Magrey sits down with Gary Mason to talk about the current situation with Israel-Palestine and how to find common ground in the mist of intense disagreement and conflict. HydeParkUMC.org/NextSteps
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Branching Out, Part 3 // The Rev. Gary Mason // August 25, 2024
Sharing the gospel with unbelievers is essential. Paul's example in Acts 17 shows how we can bridge the gap by using familiar language and imagery to reveal God's love in Christ.HydeParkUMC.org/NextStepsReflection Questions:...
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Beyond the Sermon: Our Relationship With Other Faiths
Sally and Mat sit down this week to discuss how inter-faith relationships can work and how to build those bridges.HydeParkUMC.org/nextsteps
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Branching Out, Part 2 // The Rev. Sally Campbell Evans // August 18, 2024
One of the most common questions we ask of our faith is, “What is Christianity’s relationship with other religions?” What are we to do with the passage from John 14, in which Jesus declares that he is the way, the truth, and the life, and that ...
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Beyond the Sermon: Our Christian Family Tree
This week, we have started a new sermon series discussing our Christian heritage and how we can relate to people of other faiths. Magrey and Mat sit down to talk about their own personal experiences in exploring and being raised in environments...
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Branching Out, Part 1 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // August 11, 2024
John Wesley’s famous sermon “Catholic Spirit” provides guidance on how Christians of different perspectives and traditions can find common ground, just as Jehu and Jehonadab joined hands in the passage in 2 Kings. Despite some significant...
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Beyond the Sermon: Mary McLeod Bethune
This week, Sally and Magrey talk about the impact that was the witness of Mary Bethune in education and how all of us can be inspired from it.HydeParkUMC.org/NextSteps
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Voices of Inspiration, Part 6 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // August 4, 2024
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, philanthropist, and civil rights activist, whose work was deeply rooted in her Christian convictions. Bethune-Cookman University stands as an enduring reminder of her legacy, as this states only United Metho...
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Beyond the Sermon: Oscar Romero
This week, Mat and Sally sit down the discuss the witness of Oscar Romero from El Salvador in the 1970s. And how Sally's own experience in El Salvador influenced her call to ministry.
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Voices of Inspiration, Part 5 // The Rev. Sally Campbell-Evans // July 28, 2024
Archbishop Oscar Romero was a powerful voice for freedom and liberation for the people of El Salvador, and his untimely death by an assassin’s bullet leaves behind a stirring witness to the power of non-violence in addressing systemic inequitie...
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Beyond the Sermon: Mahalia Jackson
Mat and Magrey have a discussion about how songs shape us, how they shaped the Bible, and how they continue to bring the biblical text alive today.
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Voices of Inspiration, Part 4 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // July 21, 2024
Mahalia Jackson was one of the greatest musical artists of her generation, not just for her beautiful music, but also for her inspirational witness. Her most iconic moments were in her singing of “His Eye is On the Sparrow,” based on the teachi...
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Beyond the Sermon: Howard Thurman
Mat and Justin talk about the legacy of Howard Thurman and how we can direct our beliefs into actions for justice in the community.
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Voices of Inspiration, Part 3 // The Rev. Justin LaRosa // July 14, 2024
Howard Thurman was one of the greatest preachers, writers, and mystics of the 20th century. His book “Jesus and the Disinherited” was a landmark work that invited us to see Jesus on the side of the oppressed, and inspired us to work through non...
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Beyond the Sermon: Mother Teresa
Mat and Magrey dive deeper into Mother Teresa's story, paying particular attention to her own struggles with doubt, faith, and God's perceived absence. We talk about what we can learn from that today and how we can manage our own anxieties and ...
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Voices of Inspiration, Part 2 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // July 7, 2024
Mother Theresa of Calcutta was the greatest charitable force in our lifetimes. She inspired us to give of ourselves humbly and obediently for the sake of the poor and needy, regardless of the cost. Hers was a living embodiment of the psalmist’s...
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Beyond The Sermon: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mat and Magrey sit down to discuss the impact Dietrich Bonhoeffer had on Magrey's calling to ministry and the conflict between our inner and outer selves.
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Voices of Inspiration, Part 1 // The Rev. Magrey deVega // June 30, 2024
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most significant martyrs of the 20th century, whose courageous stance against the Hitler and Christian Nationalism continues to inspire us. In his famous book “The Cost of Discipleship,” he calls the church to...
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Hard to Believe, Part 5 // The Rev. Justin LaRosa // June 23, 2024
Prayer is the lifeblood of the disciple of Jesus. In his final days with the disciples, Mark told the disciples in Mark that their faith would allow them to pray with such conviction and confidence that whatever they asked for would be granted ...
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