Worship Series:
June 5, 2022 – Current
SAINT JAMES UMC IS STEAMING LIVE!
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Let Go: Leaving Behind What We Don’t Need
Series: Emerge
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Unfold: Claiming New Possibilities
Series: Emerge
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Unwrap: Waking Up
Series: Emerge
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Open: Into the Light
Series: Emerge
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Coming Out: Leaving Comfortable Places
Series: Emerge
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Tombs and Cocoons: Trusting the Dark
Series: Emerge
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Who are you looking for?
Series: Seeking
EASTER SUNDAY
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Where are you headed?
Series: Seeking
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Can these bones live?
Series: Seeking
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Who sinned?
Series: Seeking
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Will you give me a drink?
Series: Seeking
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, March 5, 2023
How do we begin again?
Series: Seeking
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Who Will You Listen To?
Series: Seeking
The First Sunday in Lent each year sets the tone for the season by focusing on the temptation of Christ. As Christ fasted for forty days, so do we practice Lenten disciplines for forty days of Lent—spiritual practices that we are tempted to forego
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Super Sunday
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
Transfiguration Sunday is about the identity of the one we follow. Jesus the Christ is revealed in glory. This day is about faith. It shifts the focus from us and our work, to Christ and the work that has been done on our behalf. This is a day for remembering whose we are as the body of Christ; Truly a super Sunday.
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, February 12, 2023
But I Say…
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
Jesus is raising the standard of behavior in this text. He wants us to go deeper. In short, to not simply follow the rules, but to consider how our behavior, our choices, and our attitudes impact the wider community around us. It is a continuation of the salt and light idea.
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Notice: Technical difficulties resulted in sound being lost for the entire service. Our apologies.
Sunday, February 5, 2023
You Are…
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
“You are salt. You are light.” Jesus lays an expectation and blessing on us as we are called to be the church. How will we live out our call to light a path, ‘season’ those we meet, and stand up for those seeking light and love?
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Blessed Are…
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
Jesus gives us identity statements of blessing and promise, glimpses of what living in the
kin-dom of heaven is like.
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Have the Same Mind
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
During this Season of Epiphany, we continue to see how the light of God shines in the darkness and in our lives. In the scripture to the church of Corinth, Paul instructs the body of Christ to refrain from fighting among themselves, but rather proclaim the message of Christ. There is a call to follow God, to seek Christ, and to look for the light.
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Enough
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, January 8, 2023
The Water is Fine!
Series: Glimpses of God’s kin-dom
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Sunday After Christmas: Sacred Doing
Series: Reflecting the Sacred
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Christmas Sunday: Surprisingly Sacred
In the early church, Sunday was known as the “day of light.” It is very special when Christmas falls on a Sunday, as it does in 2022. As light dawns on this morning, as the children scramble to the tree to see what has appeared, we remember that the sacred comes in the form of surprise sometimes, just as it did when light and life was known anew in the form of a baby in a humble stable. Can we dare to believe that we can know a surprising calm even in the midst of anxiety because of the in-breaking of this Prince of Peace upon our lives each and every day?
Christmas Eve, December 24, 2022
It is not difficult to imagine this night as “reflecting the sacred.” We gather, sing, light candles and dare to believe that love truly enters the world time and again and anything is possible. What may be more difficult to understand, however, is that this love is ours, not because we’ve been “good” (as if God is Santa Claus), but simply because we are beloved. Our very being reflects the sacred. The incarnation of God in human flesh is proof.
4pm: Family Service
4pm: Family Service
8pm: Lessons, Carols & Candlelight Service
Sunday, December 18, 2022
PEACE Sacred Knowing
SERIES: Reflecting the Sacred
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, December 11, 2022
JOY Sacred Space
SERIES: Reflecting the Sacred
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, December 4, 2022
LOVE Sacred People
SERIES: Reflecting the Sacred
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, November 27, 2022
HOPE Sacred Time
SERIES: Reflecting the Sacred
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Scoffers
SERIES: Face to Face with Jesus
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Tourists
SERIES: Face to Face with Jesus
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Puzzles
SERIES: Face to Face with Jesus
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Out on a Limb
SERIES: Face to Face with Jesus
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Moving Forward to the Future
SERIES: Stand in Faith Unashamed
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, October 16, 2022
ALL Are Laity!
SERIES: Stand in Faith Unashamed
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Live Out Loud
SERIES:Stand in Faith Unashamed
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, October 2, 2022
The Holiest of Meals
SERIES:Stand in Faith Unashamed
9:20 am – Ringing of the Bell
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
Sunday, September 25, 2022
CROSSED!
SERIES: Having Words with Jesus
SCRIPTURES: Luke 16: 19-31 (CEB)
Sunday, September 18, 2022
TOSSED!
SERIES: Having Words with Jesus
SCRIPTURES: Luke 16: 1-14 (CEB)
Sunday, September 11, 2022
LOST (the Cost of Discipleship)
SERIES: Having Words with Jesus
SCRIPTURES: Luke 15: 1-10 (CEB)
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Counting the Cost
SERIES: Having Words with Jesus
SCRIPTURES: Luke 14: 25-33 (CEB)
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Faithfully Filled
SCRIPTURES: Jeremiah 2:4-13 (CEB); Psalm 81:1, 10-16 (CEB)
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Faithfully Known
SCRIPTURES: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 13:10-17 (CEB)
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Finding Rest
SCRIPTURE: Psalm 62: 1-9 (CEB)
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Rhythms of Prayer
Sunday, July 31, 2022
God is… Forever Faithful
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Week 5 … Anchored by Faith, Rooted in Love
This week we conclude the series ‘BeUMC, Be the Light’.
We have celebrated our Wesleyan heritage and embraced what God has done in creating, designing and empowering us.
Today we celebrate our roots of Love through hymns that anchor our faith.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Week 4 … For Whom the World is Our Parish
We build our community and we make disciples. Disciple-making is the heart of our work, of course. But you remember that the purpose of making disciples is not to strengthen the church. Rather, we make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
Rather than a general rule guiding our worship, this week it is an environment or an arena within which we do our work, just as John Wesley believed he worked.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Lesson 3: The People of God … Stay in Love With God
“the love of God is this, that we obey God’s commandments” (1 John 5:3).
That is certainly what the ordinances are about, the disciplines as we know them. They are all about love—the love of God that is also expressed in the love of neighbor.
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Lesson 2: The People of God … Do Good
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Week 1: The People of God … Who Do No Harm
SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3:29-30 (CEB), Galatians 3:23-29 (CEB)
My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Pentecost
Message: Growing Up in the Noise
Scripture: Luke 8: 26-33, Galatians 3: 23-26
United in Spirit, that’s Pentecost … the celebration of the gift of Holy Spirit moving all over to join our hearts and minds
There is a unity of Spirit that across both the Pentecost experience and the scripture readings.
The unity of a diverse group of people (Acts 2), the unity of all of Christ’s followers adopted into one united family (Romans 8), and the unity of love connecting both our Trinitarian God and our human community (John 14).
- Debra Boston, Liturgist
- Donna Benson, CLS – Message
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Pentecost
Message: The Great Requirement
Scripture: Micah 6:8 (CEB); John 16:12-15 (CEB)