Lakeside United Methodist Church
Weekly sermons from Lakeside United Methodist Church in Sanford, Florida. Rev. Dan Wunderlich and guests deliver sermons that bring the Bible to life, inspire faith, and communicate the hope we have in Jesus.
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Grow Deeply
09/29/2024
Grow Deeply
Whether we are talking about the literal roots of plants, the places and people that shape us, or the foundation upon which we have built our lives, roots are vitally important. Roots are the conduit for what sustains us, they are essential to growth, and they are meant to provide stability and strength. Therefore, it is also vitally important that we are rooted and grounded in the right thing.
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My Spiritual Progress
09/15/2024
My Spiritual Progress
It can be easy to feel like we should be further along in our faith journey, especially when we read some of the stories in the Bible. We see the bold faith of Peter, the courageous self-sacrifices of Paul, or the calm love of Mary, and we ask why we aren’t like them. And it is the subtle twist into comparison that steals away our ability to grow into the disciple God has made and called us to be.
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God’s Visceral Presence
09/08/2024
God’s Visceral Presence
A good bit of anxiety stems from feeling like we aren’t getting what we need. And so we get reactive, seeking to meet those needs through our own effort. Essentially, we become like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, giving up our access to God’s presence by seeking to grasp things for ourselves.
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God’s Particular Love
09/01/2024
God’s Particular Love
One of the primary reasons we don’t experience the particular love of God is because the voice of God is one among many in our heads and hearts. The stories we tell ourselves and the “committee members” who provide running commentary on our lives do their best to crowd out the only voice that truly matters. We must focus on the One who has the first and final word.
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Our False Reality
08/25/2024
Our False Reality
There are four common dynamics that not only stress our relationships, but they often put us in a false reality. When we learn to locate and surface these dynamics, we can begin to dispel the illusion and return to the truth. Jesus promises that, through our faithfulness to him, we can know the truth, and the truth will set us free.
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Our Deepest Beliefs
08/18/2024
Our Deepest Beliefs
Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: John 5:1-9 Description: It is easy to think that your faith in God is your deepest belief—the one you base your life on. But if you start to pay attention to how your mind and body reacts in various situations, you might discover that your faith in God is your most precious belief, but it is not actually your deepest one. The first step in closing the gap between expectations and experience in your spiritual life is clarifying your relationship with God and yourself.
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Wine
08/11/2024
Wine
When Jesus wanted to help his disciples—including us—understand his death, he did not give us a lecture. He gave us a meal. And in this meal, we don’t just learn about but we experience the love of God for us.
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Water
08/04/2024
Water
Baptism is one of the central practices of the church. But there is such a wide range of ideas about why we do it and what actually happens. When we look at the baptism of Jesus and see the connections to the rest of the biblical story, we get a clearer picture of the deep meaning of this act.
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A Light Yoke for a Burdened Generation
07/28/2024
A Light Yoke for a Burdened Generation
Gen Z college students are overwhelmed with social media stress, financial burdens, and mental health crises, all while tackling the usual challenges of young adulthood. How can we, as a church, offer them rest and resilience through Christ’s love? Discover how we can make a difference in their lives and lighten their load, just as Jesus promised.
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Mr. Blue Sky
07/21/2024
Mr. Blue Sky
If orientation was a time of peace and abundance, and disorientation disrupts all of that, it would be understandable to assume that reorientation is about putting everything back the way it was. However, while reorientation does pull us out of the depths, it is almost always surprising. It is about receiving the gift of new life God has to offer.
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Yesterday
07/14/2024
Yesterday
Grief and loss are aspects of the human experience that each of us know all too well. When the most difficult things in life happen, we can find ourselves wishing for yesterday and with little hope for tomorrow. However, we are not alone in this. Our ancestors in faith also had intimate experience with the heavy burdens life has to offer, and were so inspired to write Psalms of disorientation. Pairing their sacred words with Paul McCartney's haunting lyrics, we'll explore where we find God in all this, and how to engage in holy lament.
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What a Wonderful World
07/07/2024
What a Wonderful World
In a world of disarray, it is easy to point to optimistic perspectives, like the song “What a Wonderful World,” and think: yeah, right… so naive… the world hasn’t been that wonderful in a long time! But what if that is part of the point? There was goodness out there, it may still be there if we look for it, and at the very least it offers hope for that goodness to return.
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Time After Time
06/30/2024
Time After Time
Sermon Title: Time After Time Scripture: Psalm 84: 1-4…10-12 The Psalms are some of the most vulnerably human sacred writings we have. Within them we find deeply expressive poetry about almost every human emotion from joy to crushing sadness. What we learn from studying them is that no matter what we may be experiencing in life, God is always present with us.
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Repent!! (Or: Change Your Mind!)
06/24/2024
Repent!! (Or: Change Your Mind!)
Sermon Title: Repent!! (Or: Change Your Mind!) Speaker: Rev. Matthew Kern Scripture: Luke 3:1-9 “Repentance” can be a loaded word, sometimes understood with only being a precursor to a life of faith. But John the Baptist gives us a hint into how our lives as disciples are in fact characterized by this repentance, or, “change of mind.”
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Until
06/17/2024
Until
Sermon: Until Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Luke 15:1-10 Description: The parables of the lost sheep and lost coin may be familiar to some of us, but there is one simple word in those stories that is key to understanding God's love for us. It should also serve as a motivator to those of us who are called to share that love in the world.
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Ask the Pastor (and Friends)
06/10/2024
Ask the Pastor (and Friends)
Sermon: Ask the Pastor (and Friends) Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich, Jeremy Green, Amanda Stallard Scripture: 1 Peter 3:15-16a Description: Pastor Dan, Jeremy, and Amanda respond to questions from the congregation!
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Beyond the Fulfilled Vision
06/03/2024
Beyond the Fulfilled Vision
Sermon Series: Vision Sermon: Beyond the Fulfilled Vision Speaker: Jeremy Green Scripture: Luke 2: 25-38 Description: Scripture tells us that if we stay committed to the vision that God has shown us it will come to pass. What does it look like for us to remain faithful and steadfast in the space between the revelation of the vision and its fulfillment?
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Our Life Together
05/29/2024
Our Life Together
Sermon Series: Vision Sermon: Our Life Together Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Acts 2: 42-47 Description: Churches should always be outward facing, but community culture matters too. What did it look like then and what does it look like now to be the Church for and with one another? What are the marks of a healthy culture and community?
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Between Two Worlds
05/20/2024
Between Two Worlds
Sermon Series: Vision Sermon: Between Two Worlds Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Habakkuk 2:1-4 Description: Perhaps the hardest part of the visioning process is not actually coming up with an exciting vision. It is comparatively easy to dream about exciting an impactful things to do. But getting from a world in which we have plans to a world in which the vision is coming to life often requires waiting on God's timing.
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Willing, Ready and Listening
05/13/2024
Willing, Ready and Listening
Sermon Series: Vision Sermon: Willing, Ready and Listening Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: 1 Samuel 3: 1-10 Description: Throughout Scripture, the "word of the Lord" is regularly tied to "vision." What we read in the Bible and what we hear from God is not simply for our own information or encouragement, but it is meant to come alive and make a tangible difference. What the Church desperately needs to do, especially with emerging generations, is make visible the impact that faithfulness has on our lives and the world around us.
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Stop, Start, Continue
05/06/2024
Stop, Start, Continue
Sermon Series: Vision Sermon: Stop, Start, Continue Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Acts 9: 1-22 Description: We have all experienced the feeling of being stuck. The feeling that something has to change for us to make it to the next level in our professional lives, personal relationships, or faith journeys. Even the Apostle Paul had a moment like this, where everything he thought he knew was challenged by Christ himself. Paul wasn't all bad, but an encounter with the Messiah opened his eye to the things he needed to discard to move forward in relationship with God.
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Reality and Dreams
04/29/2024
Reality and Dreams
Sermon Series: Dreaming in the Deep Water Sermon: Reality and Dreams Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Luke 5:1-11 Description: When we make the decision to trust and follow Jesus, we will come to better see and understand who Jesus really is. And in coming to better understand Jesus, it actually helps us to better understand ourselves. For Simon, this caused a moment of fear, but for Jesus, it was the moment he was waiting for to call him to be a disciple.
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Finding Faith in the Deep Water
04/22/2024
Finding Faith in the Deep Water
Sermon Series: Dreaming in the Deep Water Sermon: Finding Faith in the Deep Water Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Luke 5: 1-11 Description: Have you ever gotten the sense that Jesus is asking you to do something outside of your comfort zone? Or something that you don't think will work and might actually be risky? How we respond in these moments says a lot about who we believe Jesus to be.
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There's Someone In My Boat
04/15/2024
There's Someone In My Boat
Sermon Series: Dreaming In The Deep Water Sermon: There's Someone In My Boat Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: Luke 5:1-11 Description: Peter had met Jesus before, he had heard him speak, and he had benefitted from one of Jesus' miracles. But today, Jesus was the one asking for a favor, and in doing so he was changing their relationship. In that moment, Peter had a choice: decline for any number of reasons, or say yes and open himself up to a life he could never have imagined.
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Why Seeing IS Believing: 'Doubting Thomas' Gets It Right
04/08/2024
Why Seeing IS Believing: 'Doubting Thomas' Gets It Right
Sermon: Why Seeing IS Believing: 'Doubting Thomas' Gets It Right Scripture: John 20:19-31 Speaker: Amanda Stallard Description: Join us this Sunday as we tackle the aftermath of Easter and what it looks like to wrestle with the Good News of risen Christ. History has been unkind to Thomas for casting doubt and needing proof of Jesus' resurrection...but what if Thomas is the role model we all really need? What if seeing is actually the key to believing?
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The Key to Freedom is Christ
04/02/2024
The Key to Freedom is Christ
Sermon: The Key to Freedom is Christ Scripture: John 20: 1-18 Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Description: Jesus rising from the dead on Easter Sunday is proof of his victory over sin and death. And if Jesus broke the powers of sin and death, their power in our life can be broken as well as we come to believe in and follow the risen Jesus. Whatever it is that is holding us back, the power of the resurrection in our lives can set us free.
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Jesus
03/25/2024
Jesus
Sermon Series: The Third Day: Living the Resurrection Sermon: Jesus Scripture: Ephesians 1:18-23 Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Description: Following Jesus isn't easy, and Jesus never promised it would be. Yet, at the same time, the Bible talks quite a bit about the power and victory we have thanks to Jesus' resurrection. So, how do we hold together all these ideas of life, death, love, suffering, scarifice, and victory?
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Paul
03/18/2024
Paul
Sermon Series: The Third Day: Living the Resurrection Sermon: Paul Scripture: Acts 9:1-6, 17-22 Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Description: We keep saying that the resurrection changes everything. And that's easy but still possible to say about the part of our lives we want to leave behind. But what happens when the transformation calls us to challenge and even leave behind the things we are most confident in?
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Walk to Emmaus
03/11/2024
Walk to Emmaus
Sermon Series: The Third Day: Living the Resurrection Sermon: Walk to Emmaus Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Troy Antonik Description: Have you ever taken a walk and missed seeing something that was right in front of you? Have you ever been oblivious to what was going on right next to you? Oftentimes, conversations, rectangular distraction devices, or things on our mind will distract us from that which is right in front of us. The disciples who walked to Emmaus (and then ran back) on Easter Sunday had a similar experience and needed their eyes to be opened. Fortunately, for the disciples on the Road to Emmaus and for all of us today, we have someone who is both always with us and also runs ahead of us.
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Thomas
03/04/2024
Thomas
Sermon Series: The Third Day: Living the Resurrection Title: Thomas Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich Scripture: John 20:24-31 Description: What is the opposite of faith? Many would say "doubt," but this is a sadly mistaken assumption that drives many people out of communities of faith. In the life of Thomas, we see someone who had doubts, but whose connection to both a community of faith and the resurrected Jesus led to an even deeper faith than he had ever had before.
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