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...
Mar 29, 2008 | General, Leading the Church, Pop Culture
Since right after Christmas, we’ve been dealing with questions. For four Sundays, I endeavored to answer your questions in a series of sermons that approached some difficult thinking. My apologies for rephrasing some of the questions, but I think we got some...
Mar 22, 2008 | Leading the Church
I had a professor in Seminary who came in and sat with the class as we were settling in the first day. He was a grad student assigned to teach a class on the culture of Christianity, so he looked like the rest of us—and he didn’t sit at the desk where we thought the...
Mar 7, 2008 | Leading the Church
Last week’s sermon in the Lenten sermon series was based on the chance Jesus offered to the disciples to opt out of the radical life-change that he was advocating. This challenge included the Apostles, and it includes us. Based on the context, Jesus was pointing...
Mar 2, 2008 | Announcements, Leading the Church, Pop Culture
A young man in my congregation, David Fricke, hopes to teach young Ugandan children the skill of photography. David hopes that the photos that they take can be used as both a source of income and a way to communicate to the world the plight of their region. Through...
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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