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Tornado Response 2020
Originally Posted on tnumc.org, view original post here UMCOR Kits Needed kits are currently being sent to our area from the UMCOR Warehouse. We will need to replenish these supplies at a later date. If your church wants to put kits together – and has a place to store them – Hygiene Kits and Tornado Buckets will be needed in the weeks ahead. —– We are grateful for your prayers and financial assistance for all of our brothers and sisters in Christ who have been directly…
Daily Devotional: February 10th, 2020
ON CHURCH; A CLASSIC C.S. LEWIS DEVOTIONAL No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.
Lydia Patterson Institute is a dream maker for young students
Originally Posted on UM News, Written by Kathy L. Gilbert, View Original Article Here Ruth Moreno and her family live in one of the few houses with lights on at 4:30 a.m. Two big dogs are pacing around the small fenced front yard, barking anxiously at any movements on the street. As the front door opens, the light around Ruth’s long, dark hair envelops her like a halo. Ruth, a high school senior, and her little brother Lino, in 7th…
Giants defensive tackle puts God first
Originally Posted on UM News, View Original Article Here “It’s hard to understand what success is if you’ve never seen it,” said New York Giants defensive tackle (No. 99) Chris Canty. “It’s hard to understand what accountability is if you’ve never seen it. It’s hard to understand what responsibility is if you’ve never seen it.” His mom, the Rev. Shirley L. Canty, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, has more reason to be proud of her son than his big…
Love Your Neighbor in the New Year: Answer Their Emails and Texts
Jesus protected his time and also gave it up willingly. In this digital age, we’re called to do the same. Originally Posted on christianitytoday.com, view original post here written by Jen Pollock Michel When a technological wave crests, I’m not usually riding it. I’m in favor of reading, not binge-watching; dinner parties, not Google hangouts. I was late to own a smartphone and join Facebook, and I still don’t use Instagram. Embarrassingly, I have to call my teenagers to turn…
PJ’s Notes: January 4th, 2020
Get a new start in the New Year on the road back to God so you can live more fully into who you were created to be….So what is your number? Christmas has come to a close for most people in the world, trips over the break have come to an end and thoughts have moved on to the new year and things we want to change in our lives. But in the church world, we are still in the…
Daily Devotional: January 4th, 2020
The Popcorn Prayer Quick, brief and immediate prayers called popcorn prayers, or sometimes called arrow or flash prayers can play an important role in a Christians life. The concept of this type of prayer became very popular in the late 90’s and early 00’s because they were focused on individuals that live busy lives. Saying a popcorn prayer is easy, it can be a few quick words, or even just a thought focused on God, and the concern, guidance, or…
New Sermon Series: Becoming Us
January begins our new sermon series Becoming Us. Over the next several weeks we all have a chance to get a new start in a new year on the road back to God so that we can all live more fully into who we were created to be. Becoming Us is focused around something that has become popular in Christian circles over the last couple of years.It is called the Enneagram. It has gotten a lot of press lately. People…
What Are the 12 Days of Christmas?
Originally Posted on howstuffworks.com, read the original post here During the holiday season, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is heard everywhere from shopping malls to television commercials to church functions. Everywhere you go, you can hear about Two Turtle Doves, Seven Swans-a-Swimming and Eleven Pipers Piping. But what does any of this mean? What does a song about doves, hens and geese have to do with Christmas? The carol has its roots in 18th-century England, as a memory-and-forfeit game sung by British children. In the…
What is Blue Christmas?
It is a time to recognize that Christmas can be a bittersweet time of the year. The constant refrain we hear about getting together with family, reminds many people of what and who they have lost, or what they never had. The anguish of broken relationships, the insecurity of unemployment, the weariness of ill health, the loss of a loved one, the pain of isolation- all these can make us feel very much alone in the midst of the festive…
Turn your Christmas upside down this year and do the season differently…
LET US CONSPIRE TOGETHER TO NOT ONLY SPEND LESS BUT GIVE MORE Although it was a cold rain misty morning, our hearts were warm and full as we gave out 153 families ( probably close to 600-800 people) and our Youth and Kitchen Crew fed 153 people. And thanks to all our servant volunteers in every area of the church from our hospitality crew to our encouraging escorts who really rocked it this time to our unloaders, table people and…
Turn your Christmas upside down this year and do the season differently…Join the Conspiracy…First Worship Fully
I am sorry this is coming a little later. I appreciate all the caring and compassion through hugs, calls, texts, messages, and emails shown to me during one of the hardest weeks of my life. It is hard to believe that a week ago as I was writing this my dad was recovering and we thought he would make it. Don’t take any moments for granted you may not have them. In case you didn’t see his full obituary you can view…