UMC 101: The Mission of the Church
Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 I think one of the greatest failures of the church today is that we put God into a very small box. Jesus…
mission
Sing! Play! Summer! – Chainbreaker
Text: Isaiah 58:6-9, Psalm 107:10-16 For the first 20 or so years of my life, I understood salvation as one concrete idea: that Jesus died…
Rise Up!
As we gather this morning to worship, we are looking backwards towards these strange individuals who saw a star in a sky and who let…
Drop Kick Me, Jesus
Yesterday after the Iowa – Iowa State game, Chad Leistikow wrote that it was a game “neither team deserved to lose.” [1] You all know…
From Everywhere to Everywhere (2.0)
This Sunday, I was making my way back from our bi-annual Global Ministries meeting and so took the opportunity to do a brief rewrite of…
From Everywhere to Everywhere
My sermon from the Thanksgiving Ingathering on November 5 This quadrennium, I have the honor of serving on our General Board of Global Ministries: Tell about…
Reflections a week after General Conference… #umcgc
As Psalm 146 reminds us: human leaders and human institutions aren’t everything. They won’t save us. We are finite and we make mistakes. Only God…
Open. #umcgc
I haven’t posted much of substance the past few days. Mostly because there simply isn’t energy to do so. Two mornings ago, the Council of…