Higher Quality Audio-only Dear Church Family, Shout aloud Hallelujah! God’s faithfulness comes down from heaven God has kept his promise, the Savior has been born and a new world begun. In this season of “God with us” we rejoice for God’s salvation has come. Merry Christmas, Pastor Rick
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Saugatuck UMC Recorded Church Services
12-20-20 Service – Challenging Times – Wonderful Endings
Sorry, but the audio for the video above is quite poor. Please us the higher quality audio recording below to more fully hear the service. Higher Quality Audio-only Dear Church Family, As we move rapidly toward the birth of our savior, Jesus, it’s important to realize all that Mary and Joseph went through to bring…
12-13-20 Service – Do Our Souls Magnify the Lord
Dear Church Family, In today’s message we take a look at Mary and her visit to her cousin Elizabeth during which Mary exclaims “My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” The question that all of us must ask ourselves at one time or another is “Does my soul magnify…
12-6-20 Service – Prepare the way of the Lord
Dear Church Family, Advent is all about preparing the way for the Lord. By this we mean to prepare ourselves to be ready for His arrival. We need to straighten out our lives. We need to reduce our mountains sin, pride, arrogance and our egotistical ways. And we need to build up our valleys of…
11-29-20 Service – Seeking God and Salvation
Dear Church Family, As we begin Advent today please take time to more actively seek God and His will in your life. We are all blessed to be a blessing to others. As we await Jesus’ birth, consider this and look for ways that God can put your knowledge, skills, and talents to work in…
11-22-20 Service – Confessions of a Sap
Dear Church Family, I want to thank Lois Bartelt for providing today’s service. Her words are most relevant as we head into this week during which we celebrate Thanksgiving. In spite of the challenges and restrictions brought about by COVID-19, in spite of not being with family and friends the way we have in the…
11-15-20 Service – A Hard Message
Dear Church Family, As you are aware, we had to cancel in-person services for a few weeks due to COVID19. So, this week and next will be Facebook Live services and we will resume in-person worship on November 29th. These are challenging times. Which makes it all the more important to realize, regardless how stressed…
11-8-20 Service – Don’t Be Foolish
Below is the Audio-Only version which has better clarity. Dear Church Family, Today we started doing something a bit different, we used Facebook Live to record our service. This enables you to see, as well as hear, our worship service. I hope this helps bring God’s presence even closer to you. Blessings, Pastor Rick
11-1-20 Service – Saints
Dear Church Family, Today is All Saints Day. A day in which we remember and celebrate all those that have gone on before us to their heavenly home. God has blessed each of us with a large number of saints to support us and guide us through our lives. Please take time today, and in…
10-25-20 Service – Loving
Dear Church Family, Jesus tells us the greatest commandment is to love God with all of our heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. He goes on to state that the second greatest is to love your neighbor as yourself. It’s essential, therefore, that we make loving a key part of…