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I posted on Facebook recently about the need for some old-fashioned peer pressure and support to improve my eating habits. That let to a bunch of helpful comments and some private invitations to join in with others in an accountability group. As I … [Read More...]

United Methodists are among those gathered through March 5 for the 35th General Assembly of the World Student Christian Federation. … [Read More...]

By Dr. Donald W. Haynes Both St. Augustine and John Calvin began their theology with an assumption common to us all—God is omnipotent, all-powerful. If God is all-powerful, then we most logically resort to a fatalistic conclusion that God makes … [Read More...]

What is faith? Is it belief? Like flipping a light switch from the off to the on position, flipping our inner ideology from disbelief to belief, from no to yes? … Faith, saving faith, is more than a flip of the switch. Faith requires more than … [Read More...]

The life of Barabbas raises the question: “What am I zealous for?” Matthew 27:15-26 If you were a pilgrim in Jerusalem during the Passover in the spring of 29AD, one of the questions that you might have heard on the lips of people as you … [Read More...]

on sunday in worship we talked about some of those negative perceptions of ourselves which we have come to own because we have listened too long and too well to the impostor (see yesterday's post).  and we remembered together what God has to say … [Read More...]

God identifies himself in Genesis 17 as God Almighty and He makes a promise to Abraham which is known as the Abrahamic covenant.  The essence of this covenant is that God would bless Abraham with a son and his descendants would be fruitful in the … [Read More...]

Today’s Reading  Ezekiel 36:1 – Ezekiel 47:12 I am heading out the door in just a few minutes. It is a little earlier than I usually am out an about.  However, I am on my way to a conference gathering with other clergy. I woke up early so I could … [Read More...]

With appointment season upon us in the United Methodist tradition, this is an exciting, scary, and trusting time in the life of our denomination. Several weeks ago my father-in-law, an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, called to tell my … [Read More...]

Daily Devotion for LentTuesday, March 3, 2015, Day 12Mark 5:21-34, NRSVTraditional Jewish prayer shawl.It's possible that Jesus woreone similar to this.We know that the Jewish leaders were sometimes at odds with Jesus.  In fact, we have already … [Read More...]