First Olympia Sermons
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Welcome to the First Olympia United Methodist Church Sermon podcast!
Each week, we will hear the sermon from the previous Sunday. Our pastors Rev. Heather Sparkman and Rev. Alexa Eisenbarth will share a message each week based in scripture and our growing relationship to God.
First Olympia Sermons
1d ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Alexa, who continues our Eastertide worship series by preaching on Acts 7: 55-60 and the theme of sacrifice. In her sermon, Pastor Alexa offers the reminder that it is often harder to live our lives as a living sacrifice to God than to claim we’d sacrifice our lives in the name of our faith ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
1w ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Alexa who continues our Eastertide worship series by preaching on Psalm 23 and the theme of suffering. In her sermon, Pastor Alexa asks “why does Suffering exist”? And reminds us that God loves and walks with us even in our greatest pain ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
1w ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Heather as we continue our Eastertide worship series by preaching on Acts 2: 36-41 and the theme of salvation. In her sermon, Pastor Heather explores several misconceptions about salvation, and invites us to think about salvation in a new way ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
3w ago
Pastor Heather explores what it means to believe in God. Is belief intellectual assent alone, or something deeper ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
3w ago
Pastor Heather teaches that the story of resurrection is no fairy tale, but comes from the muck and mire of our real lives ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
1M ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Alexa who concludes our Lenten worship series by preaching on the Garden of Gethsemane and Jesus’s last night of prayer. In her sermon, Pastor Alexa shares a story of intense prayer and how we might all put on God’s armor to walk through gauntlets of our own ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
1M ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Heather who continues our Lenten worship series by preaching on The Last Supper. In her sermon, Pastor Heather focuses on the image of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples and his surprising role in this story as servant, instead of honored guest ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
1M ago
This week, we did something a little different in worship. Instead of a traditional sermon, Sue Raymond, one of our lay leaders, shared with us a midrash of the story when Mary anointed Jesus with perfume. A midrash is a dramatic performance that helps us better understand scripture and the context in which it was written.
Sue’s midrash was a beautiful way to continue picturing ourselves alongside Jesus in the final week of his life and teaching.  ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
2M ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Alexa who continues our Lenten worship series by preaching on Jesus’s teachings to the Pharisees in the final week of his life. In her sermon, Pastor Alexa shares historical context about “false idols” in this story and an emotional message on fighting school closures in our neighborhood.  ..read more
First Olympia Sermons
2M ago
This week, we hear a sermon from Pastor Heather who began our new Lenten worship series by preaching on Jesus’s entrance into the city of Jerusalem. In her message, Pastor Heather acknowledges discomfort in the story of Holy Week and how Jesus’s entrance on a donkey leads us to understand that salvation does not come in the way we expect; that triumph is found through humility ..read more