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We are a United Methodist congregation serving Westerville, Ohio and beyond for over 200 years. At Church of the Messiah we KNOW CHRIST, GROW IN FAITH, and SERVE OTHERS.
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'Faultlines' Sermon Series - Week 3 - "The Weight of What We Won’t Release" (opens the original)
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Why is it so hard to let go of a grudge? In week three of our Faultlines series on relationships, Pastor Katy Wheat Borhauer explores one of the strangest scenes in the Gospel of Mark: a fruitless fig tree, an overturned temple, and Jesus' surprising teaching on faith, prayer, and forgiveness in Mark 11:20-25. Through a relatable story about kids who can't stop collecting rocks, she shows how grudges weigh us down mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and why holding onto them rarely punishes,
'Faultlines' Sermon Series - Week 2 - "The Comparison Trap" (opens the original)
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We live in a culture built for comparison: social media, career ladders, parenting choices, possessions. We know it steals our joy, yet we can't seem to stop scanning the lane next to us. In week two of our Faultlines series, Pastor Katy Wheat-Borhauer explores Hebrews 12:1-2 and the parable of the vineyard workers in Matthew 20 to show how comparison distorts the way we see ourselves, each other, and God's generosity. Comparison isn't inherently sin. It becomes sin when it convinces us that val
'Faultlines' Sermon Series - Week 1 - "A Look in the Mirror" (opens the original)
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This week, we begin a new series called Faultlines, five weeks naming the things that quietly erode the relationships we treasure most. In Week 1, "A Look in the Mirror," Pastor Katy Wheat-Borhauer starts in an unexpected place: the relationship we have with ourselves. Many of us give grace freely to everyone except the person in the mirror, and we can't offer others a grace we've never let ourselves receive. Drawing from 1 John 3:18-24, this message names the gap between how we see ourselves an
'The Third Way' Sermon Series - Week 8 - Student Panel "Two Houses" (opens the original)
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Every builder makes a choice about where to dig. In this message closing out our summer series on the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Don Wallick walks through Jesus's teaching from the Beatitudes to the parable of the two builders, showing that the point was never just to admire these words but to live them. Along the way we revisit what it means to be salt and light, to seek reconciliation instead of retaliation, to practice faith quietly rather than for show, and to trust God instead of hoarding
'The Third Way' Sermon Series - Week 7, Student Panel "The Plank Problem" (opens the original)
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This week's 9:30 gathering looks a little different. Pastor Katy Wheat Borhauer welcomes five students from Church of the Messiah, Jay, Luisa, Noah, Ian, and Brielle, for a live panel discussion on Matthew 7:1–12, the same passage explored in this week's sermon, "The Plank Problem." With honesty and humor, the students talk through what drives them crazy about the people closest to them, whether their first instinct is to look at their own faults or someone else's, and the difference between jud
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