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If you're looking for a collection of highly polished oratory, may we suggest Sermon Audio. If you want the Sunday Morning sermons of FUMC, you've come to the right place! :) Seriously, FUMC is grateful to have a variety of gifted speakers on our staff and as volunteers from our church. We “share the pulpit” between several people because we believe that God speaks through all of us and no one person or perspective can fully speak God's Word on their own.

We are posting the text version of most of our weekly sermons here, with the recognition that they are intended to be spoken presentations so they will undoubtedly lose something when they are read outside of the context of our gathered worship services. They are posted for your encouragement, education, and exhortation, so please receive them as such.

August 29 - John Goossen - "Wherefore Humility"

Posted August 31, 2010
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What if we took a vote on who we thought was the most humble person here? Would that ruin it for them or do we think they could handle it? Humility seems to be a somewhat elusive concept, but Proverbs teaches that the fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor. The humble know they are created by God. They know that the cares of this world are not their cares. They know themselves, their strengths and weaknesses. They are secure in the knowledge that God loves them.

June 28, 2009 - Being a Light on South Hill

Posted July 02, 2009
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Matthew 5:13-16 - Ingrid Schultz - You are the Light of the World! These words, and the rest of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, were close to the hearts of Menno Simons and his Anabaptist community. Menno offered three signs by which the Church of Jesus Christ should be known--how are we living out these signs as a light to our community?

May 31, 2009 - The Last Commission

Posted July 02, 2009
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Matthew 28:16-20 - Ingrid Schultz - This Pentecost Sunday brings an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of baptism. This was the central piece of the theology of the early Anabaptists--what made it worth living and dying for?

June 14 - "Back to the Future"

Posted June 15, 2009
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Rev 21:1-4 - Joe Heikman - The "Cherishing Our Anabaptist Treasures" series continues with a look at the first Anabaptist's expectations for "The New Jerusalem." Many of them lived with the expectation that Jesus was returning soon, like, tomorrow. Obviously that wasn't the case, but their expectations for the future had major implications for the way they lived. We can learn much from the story of Melchior Hoffman and the failed "New Jerusalem" takeover of the city of Munster.

May 17 - Kingdom Theology 2.0

Posted May 18, 2009
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Hebrews 11:13-16 - Joe Heikman - In the 16th Century, many of the first Anabaptists believed and practiced "Two Kingdom Theology," a strict separation between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the World. Today, most Mennonites are no longer separate from "the world" - What happened? And is our new Kingdom Theology 2.0, a clear departure from our past, a good thing or a bad thing?

May 10, 2009 - The Family of God

Posted May 18, 2009
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Mark 3:31-35; Galatians 3:26-27 - Ingrid Schultz - Today in our series Cherishing our Treasure: Gifts from our Anabaptist roots we are talking about the Family of God. It seems a good day for this topic. First because it is Mother’s Day when we give God thanks for our mothers and all the nurturing people God has put into our lives. Second because we are celebrating a child dedication. What does it mean to be the Family of God to each other?

May 3, 2009 - "The Priesthood of All Believers"

Posted May 04, 2009
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1 Peter 2:1-10 - Ingrid Schultz - Anabaptists through the centuries have embraced this concept in their fellowship; sometimes more in theory than in practice. What does it mean? It means, simply, that every Christian is a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. All believers are called to participate in the life and witness of the church, to share in mutual discipline and forgiveness and, as we shared last week, to test the interpretation of Scripture. It also signifies that the believer has access to God without the mediation of a priest and can be a channel of grace for other Christians.

March 29, 2009 - "God leads from failure into life"

Posted April 27, 2009
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Jeremiah 31:31-34 - Lydia Cruttwell - From the story of Jeremiah, and the children's book "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” by Kate DiCamillo, we are reminded that God is reaching into our failure and despair to do something new, something spectacular, something full of hope.

April 26, 2009 - "Keeping Jesus' Words"

Posted April 27, 2009
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Matthew 7:24-29; John 14:23-25 - Ingrid Schultz - The first Anabaptists treasured the Scriptures, as did many of the other Reformers of their day. Yet the Anabaptists had a different perspective on how to best interpret the Bible. This perspective on Scripture continues to shape our church today.

April 19, 2009 - "No Other Foundation"

Posted April 21, 2009
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1 Cor. 3:9-17 - Joe Heikman - The first of a new series called "Anabaptist Treasures" - Is there anything unique about the way that Anabaptists see the world? What is the center of the Mennonite faith? The easy answer, of course, is that Jesus is the foundation of the Mennonite church. But is that different than any other church or tradition?