Taylor Burton-Edwards – Equipping Disciples | Discipleship Ministries | “Where two or three are gathered”…
This phrase often gets cited in smaller groupings for prayer or worship, but what does the biblical text refer to? ...
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David F. Watson | The Christian Mind, Part 1
I’ve become more and more interested lately in the way Christians think–the way we see the world, assess our circumstances, ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | Does The Eclipse Solve a Biblical Conundrum?
How a cosmic event helped address a biblical conundrum for me. Creative Commons 0 License The Eclipse A full eclipse marched ...
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John Meunier | The treacherous first step
John Wesley reads the Beattitudes as both an account of the perfected Christian life and as a description of the ...
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Laurie Haller | Love, Serve, and Change
I couldn’t help but marvel. This morning I recorded brief congratulatory videos for a number of United Methodist congregations in ...
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Joseph Yoo - Medium | … Only Do or Do Not…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peamples/this post originally appeared on MinistryMatters.comBruce Lee’s #dadbodSince my high school days, I’ve wanted a body like Bruce Lee’s. I got ...
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Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Closer to a Way Forward
By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht Commission Members at Work – COWF Photo Last week the Bishops’ Commission on a Way Forward ...
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United Methodist Insight | Social Principles Revision Process Gets Under Way
Team convenors for revision of the United Methodist Social Principles met in May with Church and Society staff to begin ...
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Tom Lambrecht | Good News Magazine | Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: A Review
By Rev. Thomas Lambrecht The study guide produced by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, entitled Unity of ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | Why Christians shouldn’t make fun of poverty culture
The poor will always be with you–but that doesn’t make them the butt of jokes. A pair of black slacks Growing up in Oklahoma City in the 1980s/90s, I typically wore my one pair of black slacks to church. My ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | The #UMC Covenant will be Stronger in #NextMethodism
Covenant Considerations As promised, here’s my contribution to the conversation about #NextMethodism (see previous coverage here–includes a partial list of entries by others). The key word over the past 8 years or so for United Methodism has been “Covenant”–as in ...
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Hacking Christianity :: Rev. Jeremy Smith | As goes Mississippi, so goes The #UMC, Part Two
The followup to a previous post yields the result and the difficult road ahead. As Went Mississippi A few months back, Hacking Christianity reported and commented on two large Mississippi congregations that were petitioning to leave The United Methodist Church ...
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