Honest Worship
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Spiritual Trail Guide Fall/Winter 2025
You are gifted. Our Spiritual Trail Guide, updated for the Fall and Winter seasons of 2025, is a tool to help you discover your gifts, and explore ways those gifts can grow through Brecksville United Methodist Church. In the pages of this guide, youâll find a link to a Spiritual Gifts Inventory, and information on…
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True & Chosen Name: A Service of Naming
Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 6 pm at Brecksville United Methodist Church Before God named him Abraham, he was called Abram, and before God called her Sarah, she was known as Sarai. Jesus recognized gifts in his follower Simon that Simon himself could not see, and Jesus renamed him Peter, to signify the man Jesus…
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The Reinstatement of Ordination Service
Sunday, July 6 at 6 pm – First United Methodist Church, Cuyahoga Falls In 2024, after more than a half century of debate and defiance over the place of LGBTQ people in the denomination, General Conference delegates â by sizable majorities â voted to end decades-old bans on the ordination of âself-avowed practicingâ gay clergy…
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Get Off Your Donkey 2.0
Two years ago, in January of 2023, we spent six weeks looking at the story of the Good Samaritan. In the story, a Samaritan man is traveling along the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and happens upon someone who has been robbed and beaten, lying on the side of the road. Instead of continuing on…
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Holy Week and Easter 2025
Holy Week is time of Christian observances leading to Easter Sunday. It begins with Palm Sunday and progresses through Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. It culminates with the Easter Sunday celebrations. This Lenten season, we invite you to walk with us through the in-between spacesâthe waiting, the wondering, the wrestling, and the hope. Together, we…
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Resources for Lent
Looking for new practices this Lenten season? These resources for Lent are available for everyone! Everything In Between Worship Series This year, weâre letting the Gospel of Luke guide us through Lent. Beginning with Jesus setting his face toward Jerusalem (Luke 9:51), this worship series flows through several familiar storiesâthe Good Samaritan, Mary and Martha,…
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Ash Wednesday Worship Service
Take a pause in the middle of your week and join us March 5, 2025 at 7 pm for our Ash Wednesday Worship Service. Step into the season of Lent together. The Ash Wednesday Worship Service is a special time to slow down, reflect, pray, and receive ashes as we prepare our hearts for Easter.…
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Bishop’s Day In the Northern Waters District
Bishop Hoo-See Jung is spending a Day in the Northern Waters District – and you’re invited to join him! Set aside the evening of Thursday, February 27 to share a meal with the Bishop, our District Superintendent and other Methodists from our conference at The United Methodist Church of Macedonia. We will also enjoy sharing…
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Work-ship
Work as worship = Work-ship! We set aside a Sunday to participate in an act of service as worship, assembling 35,000 meals to be sent around the world to people in need. We partner with Rise Against Hunger for this event, which first began when a church member organized the first Work-ship in the mid…
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About Communion
What do Methodists believe about Communion? Here’s what you need to know. At Brecksville United Methodist Church, we celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion every week at the 8:30 worship service and on the first Sunday of the month at our 10:30 service. We celebrate an open table, meaning that all are welcome to receive…