Warrenton United Methodist Church
Jun 14, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Pastor Ashley’s sermon focused on the “L” in B.L.E.S.S.—**Listen**—as a practical way to follow Jesus and love others. She…
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We're in week two of our Bless series, where we are learning based on the model that the authors of the book that we are reading have created, how to...
To practically live out our faith, to practically follow Jesus' example, and to practically love one another as Jesus calls us to.
Because one of the things that I say over and over again is, it gets complicated out there, doesn't it? People are complicated.
Did you know that? Yeah.
You're laughing because it's true.
People are complicated.
And we are complicated.
And life is complicated.
But living out our faith doesn't have to be complicated.
So we're taking this practical resource and trying it out and seeing how it helps us, it changes us, and it helps us live out what it is that we so desperately seek to do and who we seek to be.
This week we're talking about the L in BLESS.
Last week we talked about the B, begin with prayer.
This week it's L, and it stands for listen.
So we're talking about listening.
Listening is complicated.
It
doesn't have to be, but it is.
I was given, I was grateful.
You know, God often gives us little gifts that if we'll pay attention, they are perfectly, well, they're always on time because they're God's, but just perfectly aligned.
And as a preacher, that happens to me a lot, and I'm really grateful because I need not rely on any of this.
And so Friday, I was given this really tremendous gift twice.
In two very specific settings, where I was the one who was there to listen, two very specific settings, two very specific conversations, two very specific moments, somebody sitting across the table from me looked at me intently and said, how are you? How are you? And this morning, even as we were greeting during Passing of the Peace, I'm like, hi, how are you? Right? That is one, how are you? That is one version of how are you, and I mean it, and I want to know how you are.
And if you say, I'm good, I'm going to say, are you good? Because I want to be sure you're not lying to me.
But that's one kind, and then the other is, how are you? How are you? And They didn't just ask because it was the right thing to do.
They truly wanted to hear, and they gave me space to answer the question, to share how I was doing.
We're in week two of our Bless series, where we are learning based on the model that the authors of the book that we are reading have created, how to...
To practically live out our faith, to practically follow Jesus' example, and to practically love one another as Jesus calls us to.
Because one of the things that I say over and over again is, it gets complicated out there, doesn't it? People are complicated.
Did you know that? Yeah.
You're laughing because it's true.
People are complicated.
And we are complicated.
And life is complicated.
But living out our faith doesn't have to be complicated.
So we're taking this practical resource and trying it out and seeing how it helps us, it changes us, and it helps us live out what it is that we so desperately seek to do and who we seek to be.
This week we're talking about the L in BLESS.
Last week we talked about the B, begin with prayer.
This week it's L, and it stands for listen.
So we're talking about listening.
Listening is complicated.
It
doesn't have to be, but it is.
I was given, I was grateful.
You know, God often gives us little gifts that if we'll pay attention, they are perfectly, well, they're always on time because they're God's, but just perfectly aligned.
And as a preacher, that happens to me a lot, and I'm really grateful because I need not rely on any of this.
And so Friday, I was given this really tremendous gift twice.
In two very specific settings, where I was the one who was there to listen, two very specific settings, two very specific conversations, two very specific moments, somebody sitting across the table from me looked at me intently and said, how are you? How are you? And this morning, even as we were greeting during Passing of the Peace, I'm like, hi, how are you? Right? That is one, how are you? That is one version of how are you, and I mean it, and I want to know how you are.
And if you say, I'm good, I'm going to say, are you good? Because I want to be sure you're not lying to me.
But that's one kind, and then the other is, how are you? How are you? And They didn't just ask because it was the right thing to do.
They truly wanted to hear, and they gave me space to answer the question, to share how I was doing.
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