Fairhaven UMC
United Methodist Church
2415 Saw Mill Run Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15234
Sunday 9:30am Worship
Tag: Dylan Parson
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Healing: A Threat to Power And Peter and John, unsurprisingly, have landed in the spotlight for this healing. And the spotlight’s a pretty dangerous place to be, always, but especially then in Jerusalem. Because healing, like resurrection, is a crisis. It’s a challenge. And it is profoundly setting to people. Now, that doesn’t seem right,…
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Fairhaven Sermon 4 28 2024 0:00 /1081.128 1× In this week’s sermon, Pastor Dylan Parson from Fairhaven United Methodist Church revisits a passage from Acts, emphasizing the radical and unsettling nature of miracles performed by the disciples Peter and John, who healed a crippled man. This miraculous act, despite its positive outcome, led to their…
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Fairhaven Sermon 4 14 2024 0:00 /983.136 1× In this week’s sermon Rev. Dylan Parson reflects on a deeply moving scriptural moment when Jesus appears to his disciples after His resurrection, profoundly challenging their understanding of mortality and the divine. As the disciples hide, fearing persecution following Jesus’ crucifixion, they are suddenly confronted by Jesus…
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Easter Sermon 3 31 2024 0:00 /874.776 1× Rev. Dylan Parson’s Easter sermon explores the nuanced narrative of Jesus’ resurrection as depicted in the Gospel of Mark, focusing particularly on the stark, satirical contrast of Palm Sunday’s procession with the societal norms and expectations of power. He delves into the subsequent betrayal and isolation Jesus…
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The Symbolism of Palm Sunday And I think this is the same feeling that marks the end of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. There’s a sense of snapping out of the moment and then into a kind of almost kind of eerie, well now what? What’s next? The story of Palm Sunday is in all four…