Episodes

Worship Service, November 8, 2026 Sermon: “Our Church is Bigger Than We Think” Scripture: Matthew 16:13-19 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon Let us know you joined us today! www.bit.ly/guest-rumc Learn more at www.reveilleumc.org When we think about who we are as a church, our thinking can be, if we are not careful, too small. Jesus gives the church the “keys to the kingdom." This doesn’t mean that we get to choose who goes in and out. It means we have all the keys to the entire house. The church lives a...

Worship Service, November 1, 2026 All Saints Day Sermon: "A Glimpse of Heaven" Scripture: Revelation 7:9-17 Rev. Stephen Coleman Let us know you joined us today! www.bit.ly/guest-rumc Learn more at www.reveilleumc.org It is difficult to say with clarity what the afterlife looks like. We tend to speak of it broadly and with allegorical language. But there are some things we can highlight about life after death. In our scripture passage from the Book of Revelation, it gives a glimpse of hea...

Worship Service, October 25, 2026 Stewardship Sermon Series: "Even Greater Things" Sermon: "Wealth and Eternity" Scripture: Luke 16:19-31 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon Let us know you joined us today! www.bit.ly/guest-rumc Learn more at www.reveilleumc.org This service will gather around a central question, directed by this haunting parable. Does our wealth help us to see or hinder us from seeing the poor? One of the lessons is that all too easily, we can be the rich man who never saw Lazarus. His w...

Worship Service, October 18, 2026 Stewardship Sermon Series: "Even Greater Things" Sermon: "Extravagant Generosity" Scripture: John 14:5-14 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon Jesus promised us that in him, we could do “even greater things.” This occurs, in many ways, through giving of our personal finances in a generous way. Generosity changes the world. When we meet generous people, the air in the room changes. Self-centered people, with their lives and finances, suck the oxygen from the room. We worship...

Worship Service, October 11, 2026 Sermon Series: "Go with the Flow" Sermon Week 5: “Sometimes You Just Have to Say It Out Loud” Scripture: 1 Peter 3:8-18 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon Again, we are to “go with the flow” of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit goes through us and beyond us. That occurs with our service, and it occurs with our witness. We are “light” and “salt.” If we don’t share our faith, it can be “flushed” away to irrelevance. The problem is that when it comes to sharing our faith, we get “...

Worship Service, October 4, 2026 Sermon Series: "Go with the Flow" Sermon Week 4: “From Holy Spirit to Holy Hands” Scripture: James 2:14-26 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon In this service, we will be reminded that the flow of the Holy Spirit is not intended to be stopped in us. The point is for the work of the Spirit to flow through us and beyond us. This occurs, as we will discuss this week, through “the work of our hands” (Psalm 90). We all receive gifts for the purpose of building up the body and eq...

Worship Service, September 27, 2026 Sermon Series: "Go with the Flow" Sermon Week 3: “A River Runs Through It…Me…Us” Scripture: Acts 2:42-47 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon The Holy Spirit does run through the world, and the Spirit does flow through me. This week, we will be reminded that the Spirit, perhaps even more, runs through us. We are a communal people, and that community is mostly explicitly seen in our gathered worship and small groups. We are formed in the image of the Trinity. The sermon wi...

Worship Service, September 20, 2026 Sermon Series: "Go with the Flow" Sermon Week 2: “Uncaged Prayer" Scripture: Luke 11:1-13 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon Setting aside time for the discipline of prayer can be hard. Lots of things come up to stop the flow of our prayer life. That was the case for Daniel. He prayed anyway. Jesus teaches us, through the Lord’s Prayer, how to pray and gives us a vision of the kingdom of God in our prayer life that can inspire a renewed passion for the possibilities and...

Worship Service, September 13, 2026 Sermon Series: "Go with the Flow" Sermon Week 1: "The Me I Want to Be" Scripture: Luke 10:25-37; John 7:37-39a Rev. Dr. Peter Moon The expert in the law asked about eternal life. He wanted to know how to be all that he was supposed to be. The answer seemed simple. Love God and love neighbor. But it wasn’t enough for him, so Jesus tells a story. The sermon this week will introduce our series, "Go with the Flow." We can be more…we can be the person that we ...

Worship Service, September 6, 2026 Sermon: "Back to Our Roots" Scripture: Matthew 7:24-27 Sermon: “Kingdom Math" Rev. Bayo Ogungbade This Labor Day Sunday, we’re going to examine our lives and the roots of our foundation together. We will sift through all of the things that are lying beneath the surface of our faith - the things we neglect, the things we idolize, the things we fear, and all things that may block us from experiencing the fullness of God’s love. Join me as we do some self-wor...

Worship Service, August 30, 2026 Sermon Series: "Pondering the Parables" Scripture: Mark 4:10-20 Sermon: “Kingdom Math" Rev. Dr. Peter Moon https://reveilleumc.org This week's message will encourage you to participate in fall programs at www.reveilleumc.org. It will highlight the way the kingdom multiplies, and how that occurs through the process of discipleship. The following licenses apply to our worship services throughout the year: CCLI Church Copyright License 1975561, Size C CCLI ...

Worship Service, August 23, 2026 Sermon Series: "Pondering the Parables" Sermon: Luke 18:9-14 Sermon: “The Non-Negotiable Prerequisite” Rev. Dr. Peter Moon God opposes pride. God blesses humility. That is the message of our parable and the reading from Peter. We cannot have a functioning relationship with the Lord when our pride is unchecked. Pride all too easily enables us to presume that God is pleased with us because of who we are and what we do, and that he is more pleased with us than ...

Worship Service, August 16, 2026 Sermon Series: "Pondering the Parables" Sermon: “Matthew 20:1-16 Sermon: “It’s Not Fair!” Rev. Dr. Peter Moon It really doesn’t seem fair. A thief and criminal, moments before he dies, seeks Jesus and his grace, and it is granted for all eternity. The workers who bore the heat of the day are paid the same as those who worked just a portion of what they did. How is this just? It is all by grace. We can either fight it or celebrate it, but grace makes us who w...

Worship Service, August 9, 2026 Sermon Series: "Pondering the Parables" Sermon: “Wonderful Words of Life" Scripture: Luke 16:19-31 Rev. Stephen Coleman The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is a very difficult and complex parable in the Gospel of Luke. On one hand, it touches on a very common theme in Luke: the problem with riches and possessions. Yet in the midst of this story where the lowly are lifted up and the rich and proud humbled, there is a line where Abraham says, “They have Mos...

Worship Service, August 2, 2026 Sermon Series: "Pondering the Parables" Sermon: “A Warning Parable" Scripture: Matthew 25:1-13 Rev. Stephen Coleman As we continue our second summer sermon series, “Pondering the Parables,” we prepare for Stephen Coleman’s sermon by reading the Parable of the Ten Virgins. Through this parable, Jesus calls us to spiritual mindfulness. We need to be ready, stay spiritually engaged, and be mindful of our world and God’s work within it. It is easy, in this world ...

Worship Service, July 26, 2026 Sermon Series: "Pondering the Parables" Sermon: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” Scripture: 2 Samuel 12:1-13a Rev. Dr. Peter Moon The story of Nathan and David is fascinating. David has sinned with Bathsheba. In this event, he has violated at least six of the Ten Commandments. Even so, he doesn’t get it. He doesn’t see anything wrong. Nathan sneaks in a parable that makes its way into David’s soul, and suddenly, David understands. It is about him, in the worst sen...

Worship Service, July 19, 2026 Sermon Series: "Summer with the Psalms: Praying with Jesus" Sermon: “Finding Our Joie De Vivre" Scripture: Psalm 1 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon We are finishing our sermon series at the beginning. Psalm 1 introduces the entire Psalter with a call to choose the way of discipleship. Instead of being chaff that the wind blows away, or the sinners, the mockers, or the sitters who do nothing, we are to be trees planted by the water as we meditate on the word of God. We pray...

Worship Service, July 12, 2026 Sermon Series: "Summer with the Psalms: Praying with Jesus" Sermon: “Praying with Perspective" Scripture: Psalm 2 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon How do we pray for our world? How do we pray and not get frustrated at the consistency with which our world gathers around arrogant and unjust leadership? It has happened time and time again in history. Psalm 2 gathers the Son, whom we now know to be Jesus, into the verses and laughs at the kings of the earth. Perhaps this is wh...

Worship Service, July 5, 2026 Sermon Series: "Summer with the Psalms: Praying with Jesus" Sermon: “To Know as We are Known” Scripture: Psalm 139:17-24 Rev. Stephen Coleman It is interesting to imagine Jesus praying Psalm 139, especially the climactic concluding verses inviting God to search his heart and lead him in the way everlasting. In an interesting way, that is what happened when he was tempted in the wilderness. His heart was searched and he was led into the better way, within the ch...

Worship Service, June 28, 2026 Sermon Series: "Summer with the Psalms: Praying with Jesus" Sermon: “God, Where Did You Go?” Scripture: Psalm 22:19-31 Rev. Dr. Pete Moon Last week we spoke of joy. Today we pray through pain. Here is the beauty of the Psalms. They take us through all the emotions and invite us to bring ourselves to God as we are. With God, we can be ruggedly honest in our thoughts and emotions. When we are, we are praying like Jesus. And, as we pray, we find God carries us th...

Worship Service, June 21, 2026 Sermon Series: "Summer with the Psalms: Praying with Jesus" Sermon: "The Best is Yet to Come" Scripture: Psalm 100 Rev. Bayo Ogungbade We begin our new sermon series, “Summer with the Psalms,” and will discern together how, by living our lives more faithfully rooted in Christ, we can move from having seasonal joy to seasoned joy. We will explore how Psalm 100 invites us to cultivate a joy that is rooted not in our changing circumstances, but in the unchanging ...

75th Anniversary Celebration Worship Service June 14, 2026 Sermon: “Why We Are Here” Romans 12:1-2 Rev. Jim Noland We welcome guest preacher and former Reveille Lead Pastor Rev. Jim Noland and Rev. MJ Kim, the first Asian-American Elder in the Virginia Conference. The service will also celebrate charter members and former clergy. The following licenses apply to our worship services throughout the year: CCLI Church Copyright License 1975561, Size C CCLI Streaming License CSPL170027, Size ...

Sunday Worship, June 7, 2026 Sermon: “Profiles in Courage” Esther 4:9-17 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon Our message will focus on the courage of Esther and Mordecai. They both display different forms of that courage. Esther stood up and faced the thing she feared. Mordecai, in contrast to the surrounding crowds, refused to bow down to Haman. Both characters invite the question of courage and its relationship to faith. What does it look like today to be “faithfully courageous? The following licenses ap...

Trinity Sunday May 31, 2026 Sermon: “Living the Trinity” Matthew 28:16-20 Rev. Dr. Peter Moon The Trinity is foundational to what we believe. What does it look like to live it out? What do we look like when we are people of the Trinity? The sermon will review the priority of the Trinity in the Christian faith and what it means for us as a community of faith. The following licenses apply to our worship services throughout the year: CCLI Church Copyright License 1975561, Size C CCLI Streami...