The F.I.T. Challenge
For over a year now, Bishop Trimble has been talking about the F.I.T. Challenge. And I think tonight, for the first time, I really understood…
church
it causes me to tremble…
Day two of our annual conference has completed. We have voted on exactly 7 items of legislation. And we have celebrated and praised and prayed and…
Vocations?
Today at our county ministerial alliance we talked about the multiple vocations that people have in their lives. The conversation sprang from a book we…
Four Loves
** Note: This is a sermon done in pieces throughout the worship service, interspersed with scripture and songs. Also – many thanks to UCC Worship…
the Church
Describe the nature and mission of the Church. What are its primary tasks today? If the sacraments call us into the world, the church is…
entering the fray: Psalm 109
For those of you who might have missed it, there has been a wave of t-shirts, bumper stickers and other such things that say “Pray…
Hope or Despair? Birth Pangs of the Kingdom
As I started exploring and reading our texts for this week, I was instantly transported back to my best friend’s kitchen – 1997. I was…
emergingumc2
Perhaps a few too many days have passed since the event for me to recall everything clearly. I would have gotten to the blogging right…