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Acts 2 Sermons
by Acts 2 United Methodist Church
The weekly sermon podcast of Acts 2 United Methodist Church in Edmond, OK. If you live in the Edmond area, we would love for you to worship with us in person Sunday mornings at 9:15 and 10:45. Learn more at acts2umc.org.
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 7: Love Our Jewish Neighbors
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 6: Jesus and the Vulnerable
Everybody is welcome in Jesus’ home: especially the vulnerable. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 5: Love the Stranger
Look for opportunities to connect with people from other places, loving them through your attention, respect, and care. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 4: Goldilocks Theology
Being a good neighbor involves more than just existing near others; it requires engaging with them. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 3: Blessed Are the Poor
In Jesus’ first sermon, he quotes the prophet Isaiah saying that he came to bring good news to the poor. We too are to be good news to the poor. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 2: Love Not Hate
We are to set aside our desired outcomes so that we can love others as Christ has loved us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Separation of Church and Hate, part 1: Notes of Rest
Christianity is about the things Jesus Christ prioritized: service to others, forgiveness, caring for the sick, the stranger, the prisoner, and loving one another. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets, part 4: The Relationship Question
Jesus’ new commandment is to do unto others as Jesus has done for us! Extend the same grace, mercy, and forgiveness that Jesus extended to you to everybody you meet. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets, part 3: The Maturity Question
Our question is not so much, “Is this right or wrong?” as it is “Who am I becoming?” Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets, part 2: Is There a Tension that Deserves My Attention?
When a decision creates uneasiness, don’t ignore it—pause, explore the tension, and trust that God may be using your conscience to guide and protect you. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets, part 1: Am I Being Honest with Myself...Really?
To decide our way into a better future, we must develop the habit of telling ourselves the truth. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Becoming Human Again, part 6: Waving the White Flag
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Becoming Human Again, part 5: Being Present
In solitude, we withdraw from the presence of other people to pray, read scripture, or simply be in God’s presence. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Becoming Human Again, part 4: Facing Reality
To experience God’s healing, we have to first acknowledge and accept our failures and wounds. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Becoming Human Again, part 3: Made for One Another
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Becoming Human Again, part 2: Lost in Wonder
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Becoming Human Again, part 1: Wake Up!
We do not have sleepwalk through life. Jesus offers us the life we were made for! Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Breaking Free from Comparison, part 6: Will We Ever Learn?
You can’t focus on what God has for you when you are always looking at others in comparison. This is a lesson we must learn over and over again as exemplified by Jesus’ first followers. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram...
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Breaking Free from Comparison, part 5: Don’t Worry, God Is at Work
We are made to serve one another in joyous and diligent contentment before God with all who have gone before us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Breaking Free from Comparison, part 4: Where Honor is Due
Humans are constantly sizing one another up, figuring where we fall in the pecking order, and seeking to move up. Jesus, though models a different way—a way in which we give honor away rather than seeking it for ourselves. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service…
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Breaking Free from Comparison, part 3: Giving Up Control
Jesus can lead us to the life we were created to live if we give him control. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Breaking Free from Comparison, part 2: Cheering You On!
God calls us to be better for others, never better than others. In striving for excellence, the goal is to achieve some good, regardless of how I compare with others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Breaking Free from Comparison, part 1: Striving for Superiority
Our worth comes from being made in God’s image and that Jesus shows the better way: humility, self-emptying, and pursuing excellence without needing to be above others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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How to Get Good at Living Life, part 5: Refrigerator Theology: Loved, Called, Not in Charge
Your identity rests in three truths: you are loved by God unconditionally, you are called to live and serve with purpose, and you are not in control because God is. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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How to Get Good at Living Life, part 4: Proven Wisdom for Life
Proverbs is practical wisdom for real life, especially for people stepping into adulthood. We need God’s grace, wise counsel, and a teachable spirit to live faithfully and well. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube...
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How to Get Good at Living Life, part 3: Your Work & Words Matter
Living wisely means honoring God through both diligent work and careful speech. It’s a call to do excellent work, rest faithfully, and speak intentionally. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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How to Get Good at Living Life, part 2: Respect
Wisdom begins with a reverent respect for God - an awe that trusts his goodness, power, and perspective above our own. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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How to Get Good at Living Life, part 1: A Life Transformed
True wisdom is not just knowledge or experience, but humility, listening, and a willingness to learn from God and others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?, part 5: The Victory of Jesus
Jesus is the victor over sin, evil, and death, and his crucifixion and resurrection reveal God’s ultimate power and love. Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?, part 5: No Greater Love
Jesus’ death on the cross was not about changing God’s heart, but about revealing God’s love and changing ours. Jesus is the victorious, loving King who willingly goes to the cross to save the world and call us to live in that same self-giving love. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the...
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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?, part 4: What Will You Do?
Because Jesus has done for us what we could never do for ourselves through the cross and resurrection, we are saved by grace for a new life of good works, living for God and others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram...
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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?, part 3: The Salvation of a Dog Named Jack
The Lamb of God serves as a powerful image of how God saves us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?, part 3: In Our Place
Jesus’ sacrifice for our sake can be understood not only as his death, but also his life lived in perfect obedience. In his life and death, Jesus gave himself for our salvation. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube...
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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?, part 1: The Crucifixion as God’s Word
Jesus’ crucifixion is God’s Word to us—revealing God’s heart of love, God’s action to reconcile and heal a broken, self-centered humanity, and God’s will for how we are to live. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube...
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A Life Transformed, part 2: Transforming the Soul
To have the joyful life God has for us, we must intentionally choose what God wants for us over anything else. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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A Life Transformed, part 1: The Mountaintop
We long to experience the kind of transformation we see in Jesus, but we find change rare and difficult. The Transfiguration is a promise of the transformation God works in us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube...
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Happier, part 6: Relationships
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Happier, part 5: A Surprising Twist
We often think happiness is just one accomplishment or milestone away, but when we get there, we find that satisfaction doesn’t last. If we want enduring happiness, we need instead to focus on progress toward the things that Jesus teaches matter most. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch…
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Happier, part 4: Jesus and the Good Life
When it comes to happiness, Jesus and social science research agree: it’s all about relationships. The way we nurture our relationships with God, family, friends, and nature can make us significantly happier, and it can make the world happier, too. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Follow…
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Happier, part 3: Speak the Truth in Love
Justice is about closing the gap between the world as it is and the world as God meant it to be. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Happier, part 2: Finding Happiness at Work
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Happier: Proven Ways to Be Happier in 2026, part 1: Don’t Worry
Jesus teaches us that while the world mistakenly seeks happiness through following natural urges, the people of God seek God’s will first. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Finding Light in the Darkness, part 5: When the Decorations Come Down
When the decorations come down and the celebrations fade, the story of Jesus’ flight to Egypt reminds us that God entered a world of real suffering. Followers of Jesus are called to keep carrying his light into dark places instead of packing him away with the Christmas decorations. Fill-In Sermon...
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Christmas Candlelight Service 2025: Light in the Darkness
At Christmas, we come to the miracle of the incarnation, where the unknowable God takes on flesh. When God shows up, light drives out darkness, and love drives out fear. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Finding Light in the Darkness, part 4: Let There Be Light & Love
God comes to earth in Jesus as light and love, driving out darkness and fear. We are invited to join Jesus in sharing that light in a weary world. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Finding Light in the Darkness, part 3: An Unqualified ‘Yes!’
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Finding Light in the Darkness, part 2: Waiting for the Light
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Finding Light in the Darkness, Part 1: The Other Side of Advent
Advent invites us to prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus by living lives that bless others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Next Steps 2026: Do Not Be Afraid
God is doing amazing this through our community of faith, and we are excited to partner with God as we take our next steps in 2026. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter
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Life That is Really Life
It's easy to get caught in the pursuit of "the good life" as defined by society, advertising, and algorithms, but this easily turns into endlessly chasing after more. If we want to really experience what the Scriptures call "the life that is really life," we need to shift our focus wanting what…
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The weekly sermon podcast of Acts 2 United Methodist Church in Edmond, OK. If you live in the Edmond area, we would love for you to worship with us in person Sunday mornings at 9:15 and 10:45. Learn more at acts2umc.org.
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