As I sit quietly meditating this morning, I can hear the raspy coughing of my wife and children in the rooms down the hall. The plague has come to our …
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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, …
Think of your emotional life as a tree planted in the heart. You can hang ornaments on a dead tree, but only a living tree can produce fruits. A healthy emotional life is rooted in and grows out of a healthy heart.
Frederick Buechner said, “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” Perhaps this is an appropriate note on which to begin 2021?
What if rather than make resolutions for 2021, we grew in our resolve to be more loving humans in every dimension of our being and relationships?
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out …
Series: The Un-Christian Clichés That Christians Say I’m kicking off a couple reflections on the false and un-Christian clichés that Christians throw around. I’ll start with one I’m hearing a …
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“But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, ‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he …
A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord …
The seeds of the Churches’ renewal are hidden in the soils of local congregations. Recently United Methodists of Florida held our annual conference (the yearly gathering of clergy and laity …
