Sep 5, 2009 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture, US Politics
A colleague recently wrote a VERY interesting post for his blog. He recently discovered that some of his blog posts were upsetting folks. He was asking too many questions. So what did he do? He asked more questions. You can read the post here: Hard Questions, Hard...
Aug 18, 2009 | Leading the Church, Methodism
Trinity UMC is sitting on a multi-stage rocket. We are ready to launch into the next major phase of life as a congregation. But there are several options as to how best to proceed. I’ve got several fuses in my hand, but I’m trying to discover which of...
Feb 2, 2009 | Leading the Church, Methodism
Today’s sermon was one of those rare pieces that drew from all four of the Scripture passages from the Lectionary for the day. Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Psalm 111 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 From the Deuteronomy passage, we find how important it is to recognize...
May 1, 2008 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
This world is my home. I don’t plan to fly away. I’d rather build God’s kingdom here than slip into some fantasy cloudscape with a little cabin in the corner of Gloryland. Honestly, I don’t even know what that last part means. In all of the...
Apr 15, 2008 | Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
We’ve been gathering job descriptions at Piperton UMC lately. Some were concerned that the job descriptions were going to be used for thorough overhauls of the work done at our church. They aren’t. Some were afraid that we were trying to figure out who to...
Feb 26, 2008 | Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
Lots of theories exist on this topic. Here’s one that caught my attention because it referred to men and our ministry to them: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0103/p01s01-ussc.html You’ll want to read the article before you continue reading this post. The...
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