February 2023

February 02, 2023St. Luke United Methodist Church

When you donate to the church, where does the money go?

January 2023

January 04, 2023St. Luke United Methodist Church

Let’s start the new year looking back at our core purpose. John and Charles Wesley can help us re-focus on what’s most important… 

December 2022

December 07, 2022St. Luke United Methodist Church

I keep thinking about the radical meaning of Christmas: God is in our flesh.

There is no divine being some far distance away (at the north pole, for example). Instead, early Christians seemed to slowly realize that God was truly present in the body of a Jewish rabbi who traveled around a backwoods region north of Jerusalem, before being killed by the Roman government for being a threat to the “peace” of the empire. God was in his body. His Body was God’s Body…

November 2022

November 03, 2022St. Luke United Methodist Church

If we want to, we can read bad news all day. There are almost 8 billion people living on the earth, so there are numerous tragedies vying for our attention. Television “news” stations know that we are captivated by bad news, so they feed it to us 24 hours a day.

So we have a choice: Do we pay any attention to the good news? In other words, do we actually trust that God is doing anything in the world? Or are we faithless?…

October 2022

September 30, 2022St. Luke United Methodist Church

The man named his wife Eve because she is the mother of everyone who lives. The Lord God made the man and his wife leather clothes and dressed them. The Lord God said, “The human being has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” Now, so he doesn’t stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever, the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to farm the fertile land from which he was taken. —Genesis 3:20-23