Last year, I surveyed my church members to find out what sermon topics interest them. I enjoy planning my sermon series and selecting my scriptures about a year at a time, and of course I like hearing from my congregation…
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When you donate to the church, where does the money go?
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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…
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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…
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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?…
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