Mount Olivet UMC

As we move towards the events of Palm Sunday and Easter we take the time to ask about Hope. Walking through a classic but difficult story, we as the people of God, are invited to speak challenging tru...

26 Mars 202313min

We cannot carry the message of God's reconciling work apart from God. All of us, every single person on this planet, whether they or we like it or not, are in Christ Jesus. It has been that way since ...

19 Mars 202315min

The Oxford Dictionary says to be reconciled to another is to have "friendly relations" restored. As we know it, reconciliation can feel to be a human act, between feuding individuals or communities. B...

12 Mars 202314min

We focus on repentance today, of turning away from sin and in the words of Isaiah “learning to do good and seek justice.” We repent of our collective and individual complicity and perpetuation of raci...

5 Mars 202313min

Today is the first Sunday in our forty-day journey toward Easter. We trade the Alleluia's of worship for purple linens throughout the sanctuary. We trade the bright light of Epiphany for fasting and r...

26 Feb 202313min

As Jesus was transfigured before his disciples, the church (yesterday, today, and tomorrow) is transformed, transfigured by God’s grace, being made new in Christ Jesus.

19 Feb 202313min

We live in an exhausting world, but Jesus has –and is –the antidote. From The Message, Matthew 11:28-30, “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll re...

12 Feb 202314min

The light we bear is not our own; thus, our effectiveness is not entirely up to us.

5 Feb 202312min