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  • Leading Courageously (Part 2)

    Jason Hardy
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    What does courageous faith look like?

    Sometimes it looks like rebuilding what has been broken. Sometimes it looks like taking one small step toward Jesus, trusting that He will meet us with grace.

    Join us this Sunday at Saint Matthew United Methodist Church as Rev. Mary Teague continues our series, Leading Courageously, exploring how God strengthens ordinary people to do extraordinary things through faith, perseverance, and trust. Together we’ll worship, pray, sing, and discover how God’s presence gives us the courage to keep building, keep believing, and keep reaching for Christ, even when the journey is difficult.

  • Leading Courageously

    Jason Hardy
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    Scripture: Psalm 46:1-11, Matthew 5 (Sermon on the Mount)

    Over the past several weeks, we have been exploring what it means to Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, and now, Lead Courageously. This final invitation reminds us that courageous leadership does not begin with confidence, influence, or having all the answers. It begins with a life rooted in God’s love. As we spend time in Scripture, prayer, worship, and spiritual practices that draw us closer to Christ, God shapes our hearts so that we are ready to respond when He calls us to lead.

    Jesus invites us to seek a different kind of righteousness, not one earned by following rules, but one that grows from hearts aligned with God’s own heart. When we hunger for justice, extend mercy, make peace, and love our neighbors, our lives begin to reflect Christ’s love in ways that quietly transform our homes, our church, and our community. Courageous leadership is not reserved for a few. It is the calling of ordinary disciples who trust God enough to take the next faithful step.

    Psalm 46 reminds us that even when the world feels uncertain, God remains our refuge and strength. Before we rush into action, we are invited to “be still and know” that God is with us. As Saint Matthew continues seeking God’s purpose in east Fort Worth, we are reminded that we do not lead alone. Christ goes before us, strengthens us when we grow weary, and calls each of us to participate in His work with faith, hope, and courage.

    Take Time to Reflect

    • How might God use your everyday acts of faithfulness to bring Christ’s love to someone else?n open hearts, open minds, and open doors. Wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome here.
    • Where is God inviting you to take a courageous step of faith this week?
    • What spiritual practices help you remain rooted in God’s love and prepared for His calling?

  • When Joy is Hard to Find

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    Life has seasons when joy comes easily—and seasons when it feels almost impossible to find. This week, Rev. Mary Teague reminded us that Christian joy isn’t dependent on our circumstances. It is rooted in God’s presence with us.

    Looking to Nehemiah’s encouragement that “the joy of the Lord is your strength” and Peter’s words to believers enduring hardship, we were reminded that God never promises an easy life. Instead, God promises to walk with us through every season, offering hope, strength, and a joy that cannot be taken away by life’s challenges.

    When we feel overwhelmed, discouraged, or weary, we are invited to turn back to God, who renews our hearts and reminds us that our hope is found not in what is happening around us, but in the One who is always with us.

    Take Time to Reflect

    Where have you been looking for joy lately? Has it depended on your circumstances, or have you allowed God’s presence to be your source of strength? This week, take a few quiet moments each day to thank God for one blessing and ask God to renew your joy, even in the middle of life’s difficult seasons.

  • Serve Joyfully: Living In The Ways of the Spirit

    Jason Hardy
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    How do we serve joyfully when life feels anything but joyful?

    This Sunday, Rev. Mary Teague reminded us that joy is not pretending everything is okay. Grief, worry, pain, and life’s distractions are real. There are seasons when healing requires us to be still before God. Yet even in those moments, God has given us practices that gently draw our hearts back to Him.

    Drawing from Psalm 100:1-5, we explored how worship, gratitude, praise, and joyful service are more than spiritual disciplines. They are gifts God has woven into our lives for our healing. These practices do not remove the chaos around us, but they help keep that chaos from defining us by reminding us that we are God’s beloved children.

    In Colossians 3:23-24, we were encouraged to approach every task with wholehearted devotion, remembering that whatever we do, we ultimately serve Christ. Whether in worship, at work, or in caring for others, even ordinary moments can become acts of joyful service.

    The good news is that God has already created us to Love Boldly and Serve Joyfully. As we choose gratitude, praise, and faithful service, we rediscover the joy that has been there all along, waiting to draw us closer to God.

    Scripture: Psalm 100:1–5; Colossians 3:23–24

    Psalm 100 (English Standard Version)

    His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
    A Psalm for giving thanks.

    100 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
    2     Serve the Lord with gladness!
        Come into his presence with singing!

    3 Know that the Lord, he is God!
        It is he who made us, and we are his;[a]
        we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

    4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
        and his courts with praise!
        Give thanks to him; bless his name!

    5 For the Lord is good;
        his steadfast love endures forever,
        and his faithfulness to all generations.

    Colossians 3:23-24 (English Standard Version)

    23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

  • Love Boldly: The Ways of the Spirit

    Jason Hardy
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    Romans 8:26-39

    What do we do when life leaves us without the words to pray?

    In this week’s message, Rev. Mary Teague explores one of the most comforting passages in Scripture, reminding us that God’s Spirit never leaves us to face life’s struggles alone. Even in moments of weakness, grief, uncertainty, or exhaustion, the Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf, praying for us when we cannot find the words ourselves.

    Drawing from Romans 8, Mary reflects on the many ways the Spirit is at work in our lives: guiding us, strengthening us, praying with us, and assuring us that we belong to God. Because of the Spirit’s presence, we can face life’s challenges with confidence, knowing that God’s love is constant and unshakable.

    The sermon concludes with Paul’s powerful promise that nothing, neither hardship, fear, loss, nor any power in heaven or on earth, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. As we seek to love boldly, we do so not through our own strength, but through the Spirit who lives within us.

    Where is the Holy Spirit inviting you to trust God’s presence a little more today?

    Romans 8:26-39 NIV
    26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

    28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

    More Than Conquerors
    31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

    “For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

    37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.