Zionsville United Methodist Church

Weekly sermons from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. Welcome to Zionsville United Methodist Church! We believe love is the most powerful force in the world and the truest reflection of who God is. Love shapes our words, our worship and the way we see one another. Together, we bring our perspectives and rhythms of faith to form something beautiful—a story anchored in grace, redemption and care that has been told and retold for generations and is continuing to unfold in us today. We’re still growing, still learning, still becoming who God created us to be. And through it all, we trust this truth: there’s enough time, enough grace and enough love to go around. Because love changes everything!

Zionsville United Methodist Church is a religion podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 149 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Zionsville United Methodist Church, a religion show with 149 episodes published.

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  Episode #37

  Portraits of Faith, Week 5 - Inclusion

  Sep 27, 202624 minS2026

  Listen to the September 27, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. AJ Jacobs spent three years tracing his family tree and ended up with 190 million relatives. His conclusion: if you go back far enough, pretty much anyone could be family. Matthew's Gospel makes a similar argument in its opening chapter — except the family tree belongs to Jesus, and the people Matthew deliberately inserts into it are two women nobody would have expected to see there. Rahab was a Canaanite sex worker from Jericho who hid Israelite spies and risked everything for a people not her own. Ruth was a Moabite widow who refused to abandon her mother-in-law and walked into a foreign land with nothing. Both were outsiders. Both were included. And the argument this message makes is that their inclusion wasn't accidental — it shaped the very character of the men who came after them, all the way to the greatest king in Israel's history and ultimately to Jesus himself. This is a message about what inclusion actually costs, what it actually opens up, and why it has always been at the heart of God's story. https://www.zumc.org/sermons

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  Episode #36

  Portraits of Faith, Week 4 - Guidance

  Sep 20, 202628 minS2026

  Listen to the September 20, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. It's one of the most familiar stories in the Old Testament — a young boy named Samuel hearing his name called in the night, shuffling down the hall to his mentor Eli, saying "here I am." It sounds like a gentle story about faith passing from one generation to the next. But read a few more verses and the picture gets complicated fast. God wasn't calling Samuel to comfort him. He was calling Samuel to deliver devastating news about the family that had raised him. This message takes an honest look at the full story — the moral collapse of Eli's household, the corruption of his sons, and the judgment God was about to bring — and finds inside it a pattern that runs all the way through Scripture: when God brings something to an end, he has already quietly started growing what comes next. Three responses emerge for anyone in a season of transition: look for what God is growing, listen for what he's calling you to, and let it be — releasing your grip on what's ending and trusting that God's eyes are on what's ahead. https://www.zumc.org/sermons

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  Episode #36

  Portraits of Faith, Week 3 - Praise

  Sep 13, 202628 minS2026

  Listen to the September 13, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. When Moses told the Israelites to pack up and leave Egypt in the middle of the night, they had hours to grab everything they'd need for an uncertain journey into the desert with an army at their heels. Food. Water. Clothing. Shelter. And somewhere in that chaotic packing, Miriam grabbed a tambourine. So did a lot of other women. They hadn't crossed the Red Sea yet. They hadn't seen Pharaoh's army drown. They just believed that God was going to give them something worth celebrating — and they packed accordingly. This message from Pastor Dave uses that small, easy-to-miss detail from Exodus 15 to make a case for anticipatory praise — the kind that doesn't wait for the problem to be solved before it starts worshipping. Drawing from two years living in Haiti, a week on the Camino, and the wisdom of worship leader Matt Redman, this is an honest and hopeful look at what praise actually does for the human soul — and why it matters most when life is hardest. https://www.zumc.org/sermons

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  Episode #35

  Portraits of Faith, Week 2 - Legacy

  Sep 6, 202625 minS2026

  Listen to the September 6, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. There are nearly a hundred portraits hanging in the lobby of Zionsville UMC right now — faces of church members, collected over the summer, each one representing a story God is telling. This message launches a sermon series built around that idea, anchored in a scene from Luke 2 that most people associate only with Christmas: the moment Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the temple and encountered two elderly strangers named Simeon and Anna. What happened in that moment was an exchange — two people near the end of their lives and two young parents just beginning theirs, each offering the other something the other desperately needed. Hope. Assurance. The reminder that they were part of something bigger than their own story. Pastor Dave weaves that ancient scene together with a visit to a church member named Donna, who spent her summers as a docent at Yosemite and who told him, quietly and with complete conviction, that God is just so good — and that the older she gets, the more clearly she sees it. A legacy, it turns out, isn't something you leave. It's something you grow. https://www.zumc.org/sermons

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  Episode #34

  Portraits of Faith, Week 1 - A Great Cloud of Witnesses

  Aug 30, 202618 minS2026

  Listen to the August 30, 2026 Sunday worship service from Zionsville United Methodist Church in Zionsville, IN. What does it mean to have faith when we cannot yet see how the story will turn out? Hebrews 11 gives us a "Hall of Faith," a long list of people whose lives were shaped by trust in God. Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Rahab, and many others accomplished remarkable things, but the author of Hebrews keeps pointing back to the same thing: they lived "by faith." Their faith did not mean life was easy. Some experienced great victories, while others endured suffering, uncertainty, persecution, and loss. Many died without seeing the fulfillment of the promises they had trusted. Yet they understood that their lives were part of a much bigger story. They trusted God's faithfulness, even when they could only see the promise from a distance. And Hebrews reminds us that we are not running our race alone. We are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses," those who have gone before us and whose faith still encourages us today. What would it look like to live faithfully when the outcome is still unseen? Who are the people whose faith has shaped your own? And what kind of legacy of faith will you leave for those who come after you? Keep your eyes on Jesus, throw off what weighs you down, and run the race with perseverance. There is a great cloud of witnesses cheering you on. https://www.zumc.org/sermons

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