Kearney First UMC Podcasts

Kearney First UMC Podcasts

Listen to Kearney First United Methodist Church’s Sunday sermons for thought provoking and uplifting messages or check out our weekly ponderings about the sermon, upcoming events, or interviews with members of the congregation.

Episodes

September 13, 2026 23 mins

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt Challenges us to think about Inheriting systems in our lives, and learning to appreciate them and how politics and order fall into our lives.

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Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen challenges us to think about the life cycle of Caterpillars, how working life has improved, and the life of Dolly Parton.

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Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen challenges us to think about Loving everyone, and gods unconditional love for everyone.

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August 23, 2026 26 mins

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen challenges us to think about time and how to spend it, volunteering, and seasons of life.

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August 16, 2026 22 mins

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt challenges us to think about Interpretation, planning, and how to apply Wisdom to your life.

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August 9, 2026 18 mins

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast! In this sermon, Pastor Matt challenges us to think about worrying less, taking life easy, and giving our day to day worries to god.

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July 26, 2026 21 mins

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Matt challenges us to think about these questions:

  • Thinking about the Christian life, what question or desire most motivates you?
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July 20, 2026 12 mins

Welcome to our Monday Morning podcast!  This is the final episode of our midweek podcast.  In this episode, Pastor Matt invites us to trying praying scripture using our own perspective, taking ancient words and making them our own as a way to draw closer to God.

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July 13, 2026 15 mins

Welcome to our Monday morning podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen challenges us to think about what Heaven will be like and how we can live as if Heaven were here.  How would your life change if you lived as if Jesus were coming back today?

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July 12, 2026 18 mins

Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen explores God is Love through the story of a quilt.  She invites you to ponder these questions as you listen:

  • When pondering the statement, “God is love,” what do you think/realize/understand?
  • How has God shown you love recently? How do you know that God loves you, personally?
  • In what ways could we share the message of God’s love ...
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July 6, 2026 10 mins

Welcome to our Monday Morning Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Matt asks how do you remember things?  Do you use a calendar, sticky notes, strings, or another method?  How do you remember all that God has done for you?

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Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen asks, "Where is your safe space?"  Is it a physical space, a person, or a memory?

How does David’s honesty in pouring out his complaint before God reflect his relationship with God?

In what ways can we relate to David’s feelings of loneliness and being “overwhelmed” in our own lives?

How can we cultivate the same level of trust ...

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June 29, 2026 7 mins

Welcome to our Monday Morning podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Matt explores a little bit of the story of David hiding from Saul and Psalm 14.  He asks if you have ever felt alone even though people may have been around you?  Are we honest with God when we feel isolated or abandoned?

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Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Matt explores the feelings of God knowing everything.  When you were a kid, did news of what you had been up to get home before you did? Did your parents seem to know everything? Is the idea of God knowing everything comforting or discomforting to you and why? What are the differences between “knowing” and “controlling” everything, and d...

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June 22, 2026 14 mins

Welcome to our Monday Morning Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Matt walks through Psalm 139 and asks, "Can we surprise God?"

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Welcome to our Sunday Sermon Podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Matt asks what was the last thing you saw that brought you a sense of awe? What is the main point of Genesis 1?  Does thinking about or believing in God as creator ask anything of you as an individual or us as humans? If so, what?  If the interpretive trajectory of the sermon on Genesis 1 (and 2) is new or different to you, what other questions or interpre...

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June 15, 2026 9 mins

Welcome to our Monday Morning Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen reads part of the creation story in Genesis 1.  She asks how we are taking time to be in creation and how we care for it.  She share a little bit about the upcoming sermon series that looks at the same themes our children explored during Vacation Bible School.

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Welcome to our Sunday Sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen shares part of her calling story and how it is not always a straight forward path. 

What does it mean to discern God’s calling when you feel like you already have your life all figured out?

What ways might God be nudging- or yan...

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June 8, 2026 10 mins

Welcome to our Monday Morning Podcast!  In this episode, Pastor Jo Ellen shares about getting a call, but not wanting to answer it right away.  Have you had a calling like this? She shares how we are given many callings throughout our lives that may or may not come when we are ready for them.  There is no such thing as being too old, too settled, or too stuck in our ways to answer God's call.

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June 7, 2026 19 mins

Welcome to our Sunday sermon podcast!  In this sermon, Pastor Jo Ellen shares some of the stories of women who have been influential in her call to ministry and what each one instilled in her.  What barriers are keeping us from answering God's call on our lives?

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