Ten Ways to Live Your Faith at Work “Wherever your job takes you, applying these simple principles will help you witness to Christ in front of your co-workers: 1. Be Joyful: We can’t be happy all the time, but joy transcends emotion. It’s rooted in the hope we have in Read more…
FEBRUARY, SCRIPTURALLY SPEAKING THE LECTIONARY READINGS FOR SUNDAYS IN FEBRUARY From the Mount of Teaching to the Mount of Transfiguration “Frost is gone, Spring not yet come, Give me frozen pipes and blizzards, but not this nothing time, this waiting room Read more…
Dear Friends, “Make America Great Again” is a phrase I—first—grew tired of; and now that Inauguration Day is over—second—I’m growing increasingly nervous of. It’s that word “great” – the way it’s implied, and how we’re supposed to infer it as Americans. I’ve been hearing it repeated so many times regarding Read more…
Worshipfully speaking – July 2015 The Letter to the Ephesians: A Velvet Hammer In these hot days of summer, we receive a cool, refreshing breeze as we enter the Ephesians Church: seeking affirmation that our church’s work is not in vain, we are ‘gifted’ with a cascade of beauty and Read more…
MAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH – July 2015 Newsletter Dear Friends, One of our family’s greatest joys was summer travel. As school teachers, my parents got most of the summer ‘off’, so we had plenty of time to go lots of different ways. There were two things that I always Read more…
JUNE, WORSHIPFULLY SPEAKING From the Fire into the Frying Pan! Once again, we are beginning the long 6-month haul of Sundays that take us through the hot, humid days of summer into the autumn conclusion of the year. This brings us up to the start of the silly season Read more…
Dear Friends, Richard Armour, in his delightful ARMOUR’S ALMANAC (McGraw-Hill, 1962), reminds us that the name of the month of April is thought to come from the Latin apeire, “to open’; since this is the season when buds, windows, and umbrellas begin to open.” Other of his April entries Read more…
APRIL, WORSHIPFULLY SPEAKING Getting a Life and Lightening Up! Easter comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word, eastre, which means “Spring. It is akin to another olde worde —indeed, fulfills it! – lencten, meaning “lengthening of days”, from which our liturgical season name Lent derives. The increasing light outside and the Read more…
Dear Friends, At the start of every calendar year, every United Methodist Church is required—required! – to fill out Statistical Tables 1, 2, and 3—a compilation of the important numbers of our church’s previous year. Despite the hassles, it can be a good thing—and an informative one. To wit—Table #1: Read more…
Quo vadis? – “Where are you going?” – is the importunate question for Lent. The baptismal waters are long dry upon our heads—replaced with an ashen smear reminding us once again—that, having left the font of renewing waters, we have begun a journey of following Christ into the wilderness…trusting in Read more…