<![CDATA[Give God an Inch...]]>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:37:21 +0000Captivate.fmRev. Tiffany Keithhttps://artwork.captivate.fm/39ac4bf9-01e0-475f-946a-0ef27eef7460/rAjD7nNs109R_13HsQW0_9OR.jpgGive God an Inch...Rev. Tiffany KeithRev. Tiffany KeithEach week we will hear the sermon preached by Rev. Tiffany Keith and then after the sermon, we will reflect on the theological foundation of the sermon, the process of creating it, and the laughs and tears it brought. It is a time to dig deeper into possibilities, to be more creative, and courageous with the story we call our own. If you want to learn more about Tiffany and her Heartstrings worship service, check out Tiffany Keith.com (https://tiffanykeith.com). Tiffany is a United Methodist pastor, ordained as an elder in full connection in 2017. She is appointed in the heart of Colorado Springs as an associate pastor at First United Methodist Church. She has two worshipping communities, The Edge – a dinner church driven by the power of personal story, and Heartstrings – Bluegrass. Worship. Wild Hearts. She is excited about studying scripture, writing and preaching, and creating a community of people living in courage and faith.https://give-god-an-inch.captivate.fmyesepisodicReturning HomeReturning HomeListen in as we talk about Mark 6:1-6 in the 5th sermon of our Welcome Home sermon series. CoVid19 has pushed us away from the comfort and predictability of "home." We were excited about returning to normal but find that the world is not as we left it. Join us for this sermon and commentary about what we see in the world right now.

]]>Listen in as we talk about Mark 6:1-6 in the 5th sermon of our Welcome Home sermon series. CoVid19 has pushed us away from the comfort and predictability of "home." We were excited about returning to normal but find that the world is not as we left it. Join us for this sermon and commentary about what we see in the world right now.

]]>102d5feb-e99e-4e6e-bc06-17a4eef68326Sun, 03 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -070041:51yesfullRev. Tiffany KeithLonging for HomeLonging for HomeDo you feel like the storms are raging? Is the world tossing you like a ship on the sea? Like wind and water and all sorts of things out of your control have taken ahold of your life, and you just don’t have the say over your day and outcomes of your efforts like you used to? Do some days just make you feel powerless and alone? Do you find yourself longing for the way it used to be? Do you find yourself longing for the comfortable familiarity of home?

Join us for this weeks episode of Heartstrings sermon and commentary based on Mark 4:.35-40. The disciples encountered storms while they were away from home. What did they discover? Jesus was in their midst...

]]>Do you feel like the storms are raging? Is the world tossing you like a ship on the sea? Like wind and water and all sorts of things out of your control have taken ahold of your life, and you just don’t have the say over your day and outcomes of your efforts like you used to? Do some days just make you feel powerless and alone? Do you find yourself longing for the way it used to be? Do you find yourself longing for the comfortable familiarity of home?

Join us for this weeks episode of Heartstrings sermon and commentary based on Mark 4:.35-40. The disciples encountered storms while they were away from home. What did they discover? Jesus was in their midst...

]]>f43eb284-bbce-46c7-8ecb-3cf8f21d3da4Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:00:00 -070040:16yesfullRev. Tiffany KeithFinding "Awe" when you're away from home...Finding "Awe" when you're away from home...Being away from home isn't always about fear. It is outside of normal, routine, comfort, and safety that we experience the most amazing moments. Join us for this weeks sermon and commentary on Mark 1:21-28 from Heartstrings at First United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs.

]]>Being away from home isn't always about fear. It is outside of normal, routine, comfort, and safety that we experience the most amazing moments. Join us for this weeks sermon and commentary on Mark 1:21-28 from Heartstrings at First United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs.

]]>95fa1276-12f0-4212-9556-ce8f3236dc75Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -070032:44nofullRev. Tiffany KeithLeaving Home..Leaving Home..This week we are exploring the moments in our lives when we have left home. What is home? What is it to leave home? The disciples left for work one morning, and everything changed. Join us as we begin this sermon series with Mark 1:16-20, "Leaving Home."

Wow, quite a year, wasn’t it? Who could have imagined at the end of 2019 that our world would be so different today...that we would have travelled through so much, changed so much, in just the course of a year. And now? Welcome home! Like all visits home, things are not as we left them. Join us as we take a journey together through leaving home and returning again. Through the moments that take our breath away, the storms, the joys, and the struggles that any adventure away from home invites us to experience.

]]>This week we are exploring the moments in our lives when we have left home. What is home? What is it to leave home? The disciples left for work one morning, and everything changed. Join us as we begin this sermon series with Mark 1:16-20, "Leaving Home."

Wow, quite a year, wasn’t it? Who could have imagined at the end of 2019 that our world would be so different today...that we would have travelled through so much, changed so much, in just the course of a year. And now? Welcome home! Like all visits home, things are not as we left them. Join us as we take a journey together through leaving home and returning again. Through the moments that take our breath away, the storms, the joys, and the struggles that any adventure away from home invites us to experience.

]]>8bbaf232-340d-4817-ac8d-cb4ce2ee6651Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:30:00 -070035:57nofull41Rev. Tiffany KeithLife Interrupted - by deathLife Interrupted - by deathThere are moments in life when we are stopped short by death. Death of a loved one. Death of a dream. Death of a way of life. 

We can’t explain to you why bad things happen (but people always try). This is a mystery that humanity has wrestled with since we could think big thoughts. But what we can believe, is that our God, who doesn’t make tragedy happen, does not have shallow words of comfort but goes into the depths of grief and pain and fear. And anger. And meets us there with compassion. Compassion: to feel with. 

]]>There are moments in life when we are stopped short by death. Death of a loved one. Death of a dream. Death of a way of life. 

We can’t explain to you why bad things happen (but people always try). This is a mystery that humanity has wrestled with since we could think big thoughts. But what we can believe, is that our God, who doesn’t make tragedy happen, does not have shallow words of comfort but goes into the depths of grief and pain and fear. And anger. And meets us there with compassion. Compassion: to feel with. 

]]>f5e2bc83-a4bb-418d-b4d1-ca22e956391bSun, 09 May 2021 10:25:00 -070054:53nofull34Rev. Tiffany KeithLife Interrupted - Driven to the WildernessLife Interrupted - Driven to the WildernessHave you ever been so excited for something, so focused, moving full on towards it… and then, it was gone? 

Beginnings are so exciting! So full of potential and hope and joy. Jesus came up from the waters of his baptism, only to find the beginning of his ministry interrupted by the wilderness, the devil, hunger, and the Holy Spirit. Will you join us, as we begin the interrupted journey with Jesus?

]]>Have you ever been so excited for something, so focused, moving full on towards it… and then, it was gone? 

Beginnings are so exciting! So full of potential and hope and joy. Jesus came up from the waters of his baptism, only to find the beginning of his ministry interrupted by the wilderness, the devil, hunger, and the Holy Spirit. Will you join us, as we begin the interrupted journey with Jesus?

]]>ed230f7a-c7bc-4c3e-a672-adc01dec6415Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:30:00 -070040:52nofull31Rev. Tiffany KeithEaster 2021 - Go and Tell!Easter 2021 - Go and Tell!This morning, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome come with tears, faced with the daunting task of preparing his body, giving away his things, sorting through the remains of a life, so beautifully lived. They were not coming to the tomb expecting Easter Bunny’s, eggs, anything beautiful… they were expecting grief and pain and tears…

]]>This morning, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome come with tears, faced with the daunting task of preparing his body, giving away his things, sorting through the remains of a life, so beautifully lived. They were not coming to the tomb expecting Easter Bunny’s, eggs, anything beautiful… they were expecting grief and pain and tears…

]]>6974536b-291b-4228-818e-9da9a5ede4ddSun, 04 Apr 2021 10:30:00 -070048:40nofullRev. Tiffany Keithtellmewithouttellingme - Givingtellmewithouttellingme - Giving"We give because it is simply an act of worship. It doesn’t earn God’s love or forgiveness we don’t buy our way into heaven. We already have God’s love and forgiveness. We already have an invitation to the heavenly banquet. Giving is a tool to become the most beautiful, most true version of ourselves. God created us to be generous. That “offering plate” in whatever form it goes by you, whether a link on Facebook, a bucket on your way out, or a plate that you pass week after week after week, it is not the church begging for money. it is a reminder that God created us to be extravagantly generous. We all need a reminder, every week to let go… It is more blessed to give than receive. We need, week after week, the reminder that we have so much to be grateful for. We need the reminder that God is our God not our money or our things. The plate is not begging for a handout, it is an opportunity to worship the God that first loved us."

]]>"We give because it is simply an act of worship. It doesn’t earn God’s love or forgiveness we don’t buy our way into heaven. We already have God’s love and forgiveness. We already have an invitation to the heavenly banquet. Giving is a tool to become the most beautiful, most true version of ourselves. God created us to be generous. That “offering plate” in whatever form it goes by you, whether a link on Facebook, a bucket on your way out, or a plate that you pass week after week after week, it is not the church begging for money. it is a reminder that God created us to be extravagantly generous. We all need a reminder, every week to let go… It is more blessed to give than receive. We need, week after week, the reminder that we have so much to be grateful for. We need the reminder that God is our God not our money or our things. The plate is not begging for a handout, it is an opportunity to worship the God that first loved us."

]]>8a7c01ac-367f-46ac-ab12-76e709a3e6baTue, 16 Mar 2021 09:00:00 -070001:01:41nofull25Rev. Tiffany Keithtellmewithouttellingme - Servingtellmewithouttellingme - ServingThe risk is that we add these new things into our lives, prayer, worship, reading scripture, serving, but we never allow them to shape the very core of who we are. We do these things, not to earn our way into heaven, not to earn God’s love or forgiveness, but because they shape us into the people we wish to become: deeply committed disciples. And scripture and tradition tell us these are the things we do. ]]>The risk is that we add these new things into our lives, prayer, worship, reading scripture, serving, but we never allow them to shape the very core of who we are. We do these things, not to earn our way into heaven, not to earn God’s love or forgiveness, but because they shape us into the people we wish to become: deeply committed disciples. And scripture and tradition tell us these are the things we do. ]]>98962fe5-85a1-4d90-897e-447fd94218b7Sun, 07 Mar 2021 10:30:00 -070043:29nofull23Rev. Tiffany Keithtellmewithouttellingme - Scripturetellmewithouttellingme - Scripture"I don’t know what will work for you. I don’t know what habits you need to create to be a person deeply in love with scripture. Allowing it to shape and form your life. But I do know that the first step, maybe the most important one, is to sit down, soon, tonight if possible. Write down your plan." - What is YOUR plan? Did you write it down?

]]>"I don’t know what will work for you. I don’t know what habits you need to create to be a person deeply in love with scripture. Allowing it to shape and form your life. But I do know that the first step, maybe the most important one, is to sit down, soon, tonight if possible. Write down your plan." - What is YOUR plan? Did you write it down?

]]>71265b67-675b-4a2f-a7ec-f62789d9bb02Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:30:00 -070047:03nofull12Rev. Tiffany Keithtellmewithouttellingme - Worship and Prayertellmewithouttellingme - Worship and PrayerWeek 1 -Worship & Prayer

The next five weeks will be a more practical sermon series. A list of things for us to do. Now, I’m not a rules person. That’s wrong, I am a rules person, I just think they are made to be broken. So, I need rules, to break rules. I do, however, believe in the power of goals and intentions, guidelines to support my personal growth. I believe in brushing my teeth twice a day, taking my vitamins every day, creating a budget monthly, not really rules but really good guidelines to build a beautiful life.

#HeartstringsFUMC #UMC #Sermon #PreacherChick #Methodist

#TellMeWithoutTellingMe

]]>Week 1 -Worship & Prayer

The next five weeks will be a more practical sermon series. A list of things for us to do. Now, I’m not a rules person. That’s wrong, I am a rules person, I just think they are made to be broken. So, I need rules, to break rules. I do, however, believe in the power of goals and intentions, guidelines to support my personal growth. I believe in brushing my teeth twice a day, taking my vitamins every day, creating a budget monthly, not really rules but really good guidelines to build a beautiful life.

#HeartstringsFUMC #UMC #Sermon #PreacherChick #Methodist

#TellMeWithoutTellingMe

]]>76f46343-d3a0-4ee5-9f4a-bc27f08d4737Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -070053:04nofull21Rev. Tiffany KeithIn Our Songs We Will Praise YouIn Our Songs We Will Praise YouThis extravagant, beautiful love, this is our strength and our shield as we take this journey through living… it is this wild, extravagant, grace that we put our trust in, that gives us courage… that invites us to the dance floor to discover a joy beyond understanding. It is this extravagantly boundless love that invites us to become wild hearts ourselves, it is this vision of God’s wild heart that we, as a community, will strive to live into.

]]>This extravagant, beautiful love, this is our strength and our shield as we take this journey through living… it is this wild, extravagant, grace that we put our trust in, that gives us courage… that invites us to the dance floor to discover a joy beyond understanding. It is this extravagantly boundless love that invites us to become wild hearts ourselves, it is this vision of God’s wild heart that we, as a community, will strive to live into.

]]>73b1f573-0336-4d1a-82d6-9f0b8e0116a1Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -070048:24nofull16Rev. Tiffany KeithOur Wild Hearts Dance for JoyOur Wild Hearts Dance for JoyI can close my eye and put myself in that middle school gym, I can feel the presence of God dancing in total freedom, inviting me to join. “Come, join me…” God beckons, calls, invites… Invites us into this limitless, boundless love…

I have a choice. You have a choice. In little moments, big moments, you can sit it out. Or you can dance… 

]]>I can close my eye and put myself in that middle school gym, I can feel the presence of God dancing in total freedom, inviting me to join. “Come, join me…” God beckons, calls, invites… Invites us into this limitless, boundless love…

I have a choice. You have a choice. In little moments, big moments, you can sit it out. Or you can dance… 

]]>39d9f162-c623-4486-9796-7acf1bf676d1Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -070040:32nofull15Rev. Tiffany KeithWild HeartsWild HeartsI grew to expect those wild hearts.

I could feel them coming close. I could feel them gather by my side.

I could feel their fear and their courage.

I could feel their freedom and their commitment.

I could feel their depth and their lighthearted joy.

I could feel their scars and I could feel their light.

]]>I grew to expect those wild hearts.

I could feel them coming close. I could feel them gather by my side.

I could feel their fear and their courage.

I could feel their freedom and their commitment.

I could feel their depth and their lighthearted joy.

I could feel their scars and I could feel their light.

]]>144927ab-705c-4aa9-b99a-545715b92f6eSun, 31 Jan 2021 10:00:00 -070042:52yesfull14Rev. Tiffany Keithin you we have found our courage;in you we have found our courage;Join us for week three of our series on Pslam 28:7 - "In you, we find our courage." 

Naming courage. Defining courage. Looking to the life of Christ for moments of courage. Finding our courage in God’s love and grace. Practicing courage. Courage will define us as a community. That courage will look different at different times. Right now it looks like showing up in a parking lot, to be in community with people showing up online, and finding any way we can to connect with one another. And our call to courage will be doing our part to bring healing to our world. 

]]>Join us for week three of our series on Pslam 28:7 - "In you, we find our courage." 

Naming courage. Defining courage. Looking to the life of Christ for moments of courage. Finding our courage in God’s love and grace. Practicing courage. Courage will define us as a community. That courage will look different at different times. Right now it looks like showing up in a parking lot, to be in community with people showing up online, and finding any way we can to connect with one another. And our call to courage will be doing our part to bring healing to our world. 

]]>c64b7ac1-a9af-461f-9980-0b317b67e67fMon, 25 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -070056:55yesfull13Rev. Tiffany KeithOur Hearts Trust in YouOur Hearts Trust in YouJoin us for week two of our series on Pslam 28:7 - "Our Hearts Trust in You." 

After the invitation to worship… before the commitment to courageous discipleship… from the first note of the offertory where we take a moment to open our hands so we can see all that we have is God’s, and give back in gratitude, through prayer and song and scripture and sermon… to that moment when we are all one in the eating of bread and drinking of juice… that is the heart of worship. The liminal space when set aside life that we might be present here… The center. The core. The heart of worship…. “our hearts trust in you”

]]>Join us for week two of our series on Pslam 28:7 - "Our Hearts Trust in You." 

After the invitation to worship… before the commitment to courageous discipleship… from the first note of the offertory where we take a moment to open our hands so we can see all that we have is God’s, and give back in gratitude, through prayer and song and scripture and sermon… to that moment when we are all one in the eating of bread and drinking of juice… that is the heart of worship. The liminal space when set aside life that we might be present here… The center. The core. The heart of worship…. “our hearts trust in you”

]]>892a64c8-697d-4d82-b1a6-1c9a4317a6b1Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -070058:14nofull12Rev. Tiffany KeithGod, you are our strength and our shieldGod, you are our strength and our shieldWhether we know it or not, whether we see it or not… when it is so hard to remember… God, is our strength and our shield. When the world feels like it is crushing in around us… God is our strength and our shield. When it feels like pandemic, and division, and hate, and anger will never end… God is our strength and our shield. No matter how dark life becomes… God is our strength and our shield. In the times of life when we forget about God and look to ourselves, or any idol to be our strength and shield… it is the simple words that we’ve repeated together, time and time again that we turn to for the reminder, that God is our strength and our shield. Liturgy is a reminder of the belief that God is our strength and our shield. Because we need that reminder. We need it this week, we will need it next week, and the week after God is our strength and our shield.

Sermon from Heartstrings, a First United Methodist Church - Colorado Springs (#UMC #FUMC-CS) Worshipping community.

]]>Whether we know it or not, whether we see it or not… when it is so hard to remember… God, is our strength and our shield. When the world feels like it is crushing in around us… God is our strength and our shield. When it feels like pandemic, and division, and hate, and anger will never end… God is our strength and our shield. No matter how dark life becomes… God is our strength and our shield. In the times of life when we forget about God and look to ourselves, or any idol to be our strength and shield… it is the simple words that we’ve repeated together, time and time again that we turn to for the reminder, that God is our strength and our shield. Liturgy is a reminder of the belief that God is our strength and our shield. Because we need that reminder. We need it this week, we will need it next week, and the week after God is our strength and our shield.

Sermon from Heartstrings, a First United Methodist Church - Colorado Springs (#UMC #FUMC-CS) Worshipping community.

]]>6acdf175-3786-4f9e-9aa3-f80be15f88efMon, 11 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -070048:42nofull11Whether we know it or not, whether we see it or not… when it is so hard to remember… God, is our strength and our shield. When the world feels like it is crushing in around us… God is our strength and our shield. When it feels like pandemic, and division, and hate, and anger will never end… God is our strength and our shield. No matter how dark life becomes… God is our strength and our shield. In the times of life when we forget about God and look to ourselves, or any idol to be our strength and shield… it is the simple words that we’ve repeated together, time and time again that we turn to for the reminder, that God is our strength and our shield. Liturgy is a reminder of the belief that God is our strength and our shield. Because we need that reminder. We need it this week, we will need it next week, and the week after God is our strength and our shield. Sermon from Heartstrings, a First United Methodist Church - Colorado Springs (#UMC #FUMC-CS) Worshipping community.Rev. Tiffany KeithEpiphany 2021 - The Wise Men Visit the Child and his mother...Epiphany 2021 - The Wise Men Visit the Child and his mother...This is our preview episode! I recorded the sermon, then, off we went! As for liturgy and sermon - this week the church celebrates the wise men visiting Jesus, the last of the 12 days of Christmas.

]]>This is our preview episode! I recorded the sermon, then, off we went! As for liturgy and sermon - this week the church celebrates the wise men visiting Jesus, the last of the 12 days of Christmas.

]]>fb01e3d0-39b7-462f-943e-89e15517d107Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:15:00 -070029:28nofull1Rev. Tiffany Keith