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Luke 15:11-16 October 5, 2025 (World Communion) • Mount Pleasant UMC How did he end up here? Face down in the mud, longing to eat pig slop…how did he get here? He was a good kid, from a respectable Jewish home. His father had lots of land, and was well-known in the community. Of course, that’s where the problems began, with his father. What was it that caused him to go to his father and tell him, “I wish you were dead”? Well, he hadn’t said it quite that way, but when he asked to get his inheritance right now, it was the same thing. And then, when the father signed over the deed to his portion of the land, and he turned around and immediately sold it to someone else—he knew he was heaping shame on his father and his family name, but at that moment, he didn’t really care. He just wanted out. And out he went, pockets full of cash. He knew he was abandoning his responsibility to care for his parents in their old age, but he didn’t care about that, either. All he cared about was gett...

  “In The Place Just Right” Sermon Study Guide for October 5, 2025 Downloadable Version Scripture: Luke 15:11-16 1. Biblical Story a. He wanted it all… b. He chose the wrong… c. He had no… d. He did not live… 2. Our Story It’s not about… Genesis 12:1-4: blessed to be… Giving ourselves to… SHORT-TERM MID-TERM LONG-TERM Scripture for the Week: Monday - Genesis 12:1-9 Tuesday - John 21:15-19 Wednesday - Acts 1:1-11 Thursday - Acts 9:1-19 Friday - Psalm 37:1-11 Saturday - Genesis 14:17-24 In response to this Scripture, how will you live? Prayer Prompt: For a mission bigger than myself.

Genesis 3:1-13 September 28, 2025 • Mount Pleasant UMC We Americans love our stuff. And I’m not pointing fingers at anyone; that most definitely includes me. I love my stuff and I have way too much of it. Ten years ago, when we moved to Terre Haute, I made a concerted effort to pare down our stuff. I donated many boxes of stuff to the Portage church’s rummage sale and to Goodwill, and do you know what? When everything was totaled after our move here, we were still over the Conference limit for moving expenses. Because we have too much stuff. And guess what we’ve done since we’ve been here? Buy more stuff. According to the Federal Reserve, over the last three years (post-pandemic), our spending has increased every year but our income has not. Every year, we go deeper in debt, and we still don’t think have enough stuff. I often say that our challenge is we have too much month at the end of our money, but the real problem we have isn’t a stuff problems. It’s not an economic problem....