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Mosaic UMC Sermons
by Matt Stout
Sermons from Mosaic UMC's weekly worship
Episodes
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A Wider Table: Samaritans
In Acts 8, Philip carries the gospel to Samaria, where Simon the sorcerer, a man who once held the whole city in awe, believes and is baptized, and then tries to buy the Spirit from Peter and John. I wonder if both stories about Simon are a little bit true, that he was a sincere convert who…
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A Wider Table: All The People Of Israel
When Peter and John are hauled before the rulers, elders, and scribes in Acts 4:5-12, Luke names the gatekeepers one by one, and then Peter answers their question about whose name did this with a single Name. We talk about how Jesus never gatekept who could follow him, why the stone the builders...
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Graceonomics: Sons At Work
In Matthew 21:23-32, Jesus tells the religious leaders a parable about two sons — one who says no to his father and then goes to work, and one who says yes and never shows up. This week we sit with the parts of that story that don't resolve easily: what it means that Jesus never says the tax...
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Graceonomics: Wages
In Matthew 20:1-16, Jesus tells a parable about a vineyard owner who pays every worker the same wage, whether they showed up at dawn or five in the afternoon, and asks us to sit with how unfair that feels before we rush to the moral. We talk about why comparison is the thief of joy, how it keeps…
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Midweek Devotion: God and AI
In this week's devotion, we look at how we got to the place we are in AI, the anxiety in the world surrounding it, and how we can look to God in the midst of all of it.
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Graceonomics: Forgiveness
Matthew 18:21-35 gives us Peter's question about how many times we're supposed to forgive, and Jesus answers with a parable about a servant forgiven an impossible debt who turns around and chokes a fellow servant over pocket change. Forgiveness gets talked about with a lot of Sunday school…
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Midweek Devotion: Less Is More
When Jesus tells us that whoever loses their life will save it, sometimes we try and have it both ways.
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Graceonomics: The One
Jesus tells a story about a shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to chase down one lost one, and if that sounds backwards, that's the point: in the economy of God, the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many, because the many are just a whole lot of ones that God loves individually. We…
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Let Your Light Shine On by Tab Miller
This week we welcome guest speaker Tab Miller, Director of Operations and Volunteer Ministries at FaithWorks in Brunswick, Georgia. Preaching from Matthew 5:13-16, Tab wrestles with what it means to be salt and light in communities marked by real poverty and real suffering, drawing on stories…
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Jonah: Cliffhanger
Jonah's message was well received Nineveh repented, but instead of celebrating he got angry that grace reached people he didn't think deserved it. This week we sat with that whine and asked how often we do the same thing, hoping for someone's downfall instead of their repentance, wanting God's...
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Jonah: The Best Altar Call Ever
Jonah preached the harshest sermon imaginable, no mercy, no invitation to repent, just forty days and judgment, and somehow the whole city turned to God anyway. This week we sat with what it means that Nineveh believed God while Jonah, God's own prophet, only ever believed in him, and asked what...
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Jonah: A Psalm for Folks Who Are Drowning
Jonah's prayer from inside the fish sounds like faith, but it's really the cry of a man who's run out of every other option, and that's exactly the kind of prayer most of us know how to pray. This week we sat with the drowning feeling, whether it's depression, debt, broken relationships, or the...
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Jonah: Man Overboard
Jonah didn't run from a task, he ran from the people God asked him to love, and if we're honest, most of us have done the same thing. This week we started our new series in the book of Jonah, tracing how God met a disobedient prophet with grace upon grace upon grace, calling him, pursuing him…
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Midweek Devotion: Jonah and the Sailors
In this week's midweek devotion, we look at how the book of Jonah teaches against tribal religion, showing pagan sailors who are more virtuous than God's prophet.
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Shalom in the World
It's one thing to sing about peace on Sunday night, and another thing when the notification pops up Monday morning and the study of war finds you. In Romans 12, Paul calls a church living in the shadow of empire to bless their persecutors, feed their enemies, and live at peace with everyone as…
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Shalom in Lock Up
Paul and Silas end up beaten, shackled, and thrown into the darkest cell in Philippi, and they respond by singing. Tonight we dig into Acts 16 through the lens of Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy, tracing how nearly everyone in this story treats someone else as an object, from the slave girl...
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Shalom in the Fire
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had every reason to expect they were about to die, and they walked toward the furnace anyway rather than bow to a king's golden idol. Their story asks us what shalom actually means when the world gets chaotic, and the answer isn't safety or success but the presence...
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Shalom: Jesus' Lasting Gift
In John 14 and 15, Jesus promises his disciples a peace unlike anything the world can offer, a Shalom rooted not in the absence of conflict but in wholeness, harmony, and the abiding presence of the Spirit. This peace is a gift we receive rather than a comfort we manufacture, and it often shows…
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Wesley's Wisdom: Sanctification
Jesus says "be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect," and it's tempting to hear that as an order to pitch a perfect game of morality, no errors allowed. Wesley taught something different, that Christian perfection isn't an unblemished record but a heart so shaped by walking with...
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Wesley's Wisdom: Social Holiness
Could you live a holy life alone on a desert island, free from anyone to lie to, steal from, or be jealous of? John Wesley would say that's exactly the problem, because he believed there's no such thing as solitary religion, only social holiness, the kind that gets worked out in real…
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Wesley's Wisdom: Grace
Everybody in the Christian faith talks a big game about grace, but John Wesley meant something specific by it, and this week we dig into what grace actually is: God's free, undeserved favor poured out on everybody, all the time, no matter what. Walking through Wesley's vision of prevenient,...
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Wesley's Wisdom: Means of Grace
What's actually happening when we take communion or get baptized? In this week's Wesley's Wisdom, Matt traces his own journey to a sacramental understanding of baptism, exploring how John Wesley taught that God is the primary actor in the sacraments, lavishing grace on us through ordinary bread,...
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Trinity Sunday: Go And Grow
Trinity Sunday has a reputation for making preachers nervous, but maybe that's because we've been trying to explain God instead of experience God. From the ruach hovering over the chaos in Genesis to Jesus sending his disciples in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Scripture shows us a...
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Pentecost
On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit didn't show up to fix the early church's weaknesses, she showed up to ignite their strengths. In Acts 2, the Spirit created something remarkable: a community of people from every nation under heaven who could finally understand each other, not by erasing...
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Living Hope: He Cares For You
When your body has been trained to feel unsafe, being told to trust God more isn't comfort. In this sermon, Matt shares a personal experience with trauma-informed care that helped him name how unsafe he had been feeling across every dimension of his life, and what Peter's promise of spiritual...
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Living Hope: No Good Deed
Life isn't fair, and Peter doesn't pretend otherwise. In "No Good Deed," we trace what it means to stay zealous for good when doing right costs you everything. From Charles Morgan Jr. speaking hard truth in Birmingham to Fannie Lou Hamer refusing to stop voting. The reason we keep going isn't…
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Living Hope: Christ's Mosaic
Rejection isn't just a wound we carry, it's the raw material Jesus builds with. In this sermon from 1 Peter 2, we explore what it means that the stone the builders rejected became the cornerstone, and why the church Jesus builds isn't made of carefully curated, matching stones but of all the ones...
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Living Hope: Suffering Savior
Peter didn't write this passage to justify slavery, he wrote it to reveal that Jesus identifies most deeply with the most vulnerable among us. Drawing on James Cone's Black Liberation Theology, this sermon explores what it means that liberation isn't an afterthought in God's economy, but the...
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Living Hope: Atonement
What if the way we imagine God actually shapes the way we treat our neighbors? In this sermon, Matt walks through four different atonement theories, arguing that the deep magic of the cross is bigger than any single metaphor. The ransom has been paid, not to God, but by God, and that changes...
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Living Hope: Faith Goals
Sometimes the texts that frustrate us most are the ones that won't let us go. This week Matt digs into 1 Peter's promise that "the salvation of your souls" is the goal and outcome of faith, and asks what that actually means in a week that felt like despair. Salvation, it turns out, isn't about...
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Open Dialogue on The Cross
In this Palm Sunday sermon, Matt explores the profound isolation of Jesus on the cross, forsaken by the crowds, the government, his disciples, and ultimately crying out that even God had abandoned him, arriving at a thesis both simple and staggering: while everyone forsook Jesus, Jesus forsook...
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Open Dialogue on Life and Death
When Jesus heard that his friend Lazarus was dying, he didn't hurry. When he finally arrived, he wept, even though he knew he was about to raise him from the dead. In this sermon, Matt explores why Christians so often respond to grief with platitudes like "God won't give you more than you can...
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Open Dialogue on True Sight
In John 9, the Pharisees drag a newly-healed blind man in front of their tribunal again and again. Not because his answers are unclear, but because his answers are threatening. When the truth challenges the systems that keep us comfortable and powerful, willful ignorance isn't weakness; it's a...
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Open Dialogue on Acceptance
Jesus had every reason to walk past the woman at the well: she was the wrong ethnicity, the wrong gender, and had the wrong reputation. But he stopped anyway, because the gospel was never meant for respectable people. In this sermon, we explore what it means to be truly incarnate in our...
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Open Dialogue on Salvation
In this sermon on John 3:1-17, Pastor explores Jesus' nighttime conversation with Nicodemus to challenge the idea that salvation is a neat, tidy transaction. Drawing on the images of the bronze snake in the wilderness, the messiness of physical birth, and the exposing nature of light, the sermon...
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Perspectives: LGBTQ+ Theology
As we wrap up our Perspectives series, Matt Stout and Tracy Rose explore LGBTQ+ theology through conversation, Scripture, and lived experience, asking what it means to move beyond a culture of "respectability" and toward boundary-crossing love. Through the story of Ruth and Naomi, we consider how...
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Perspectives: Womanist Theology
In this sermon from the Perspectives series, we explore Womanist theology as a lens for reading Scripture through lived experience, intersectionality, and sanctified imagination. Centering the story of Hagar in Genesis 16, we ask what happens when we read the Bible with empathy for those pushed…
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Perspectives: Liberation Theology
In this sermon, Mosaic introduces Liberation Theology as part of a broader series exploring diverse theological perspectives. Drawing from Luke 4 and the works of James Cone and Oscar Romero, he highlights how God consistently sides with the poor, the oppressed, and the marginalized. This message...
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Abiding Joy
This week we wrap up our series on joy by exploring Jesus' words about the true vine in John 15, challenging the idea that abiding in Christ is about rule-following or spiritual performance. Instead, we discover that abiding is about real connection: sharing in the joy that God himself…
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Joy As Resistance
In this week's sermon, Joy as Resistance, we explore how joy is not a soft escape from reality but a powerful, Spirit-filled act of defiance in a weary world. Drawing from Nehemiah 8, we see how God calls his people to rejoice even in the rubble because the joy of the Lord is our strength. In a...
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Chartering Sunday: The Blessed Before
In "The Blessed Before," Rev. Dr. Scott Hagan reflects on Jesus' baptism to remind the church that belovedness comes before achievement—before Jesus did anything, he was already named God's beloved. Preaching at the chartering service of Mosaic UMC, he invites the congregation to move beyond the...
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Star Word: Joy
As Mosaic prepares for a new season, this sermon introduces joy as the church's star word for 2026, grounded in Paul's words from Philippians 4. Rather than promoting fake positivity or guilt-driven happiness, it explores joy as something God cares deeply about and invites us to cultivate even in...
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Blue Christmas Service
Blue Christmas acknowledges that the holidays can be heavy, especially when grief, loss, depression, or financial strain make cheer feel out of reach. Drawing from Lamentations 3, this sermon affirms that God invites our honesty, meets us in lament, and offers hope rooted not in circumstances but...
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Long Awaited Arrival
In this final message of the Advent series, we explore Isaiah 7 and God's offer of a sign to King Ahaz—a sign that ultimately points to the birth of Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Through a powerful comparison to the "game changer" of the forward pass in football, we're challenged to see how the...
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Long Awaited Redemption
On the third week of Advent we explore Isaiah 35 and the hope it offered to a people who felt stuck; politically, spiritually, and emotionally. Through vivid imagery and practical insight, we reflect on how Jesus' incarnation opens a highway of redemption for all who feel trapped by sin or...
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Long Awaited Justice
In this episode, we explore Isaiah's radical vision of peace and how true peace is only possible through justice. Drawing from the failures of King Ahaz and the hope of the coming Messiah, we see how Jesus takes sides with the vulnerable to bring lasting restoration. Listeners are challenged to...
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Long Awaited Hope
In this Advent episode, we explore Isaiah 2:1–5 and ask what kind of Messiah God's people were truly waiting for—and what kind of Messiah we expect today. Through Isaiah's vision of swords turned into plowshares, we uncover a radical hope for lasting peace that doesn't come through domination…
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Christ the King Sunday
In this Christ the King Sunday message, we explore the radical difference between Jesus' cruciform kingship and the coercive, worldly power claimed by Christian nationalism. Drawing from Luke 23 and cultural examples like Hamilton, the sermon reclaims kingdom language as a vision of sacrificial...
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The End?
In this episode, we explore why eschatology—the study of the end times—matters for how we live today. From dismantling rapture-centered theology to embracing a hopeful, redemptive vision of Jesus' return, this message challenges us to live with purpose, humility, and love for our neighbors. What…
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The Man
In this sermon, we explore 2 Thessalonians 2 to rethink common end-times interpretations, focusing not on fear or speculation but on faithful living in the present. We reflect on how Paul's warning about the "man of lawlessness" may describe recurring patterns of power and deception, not a…
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