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Nikos | Sunday Pastoral Prayer (Feb. 17) Athens First UMC

February 18, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

[Our prayer for Sunday focused on the special UMC General Conference that is meeting in St. Louis this week, Feb. 23 to 26 to decide on issues related to same sex marriage and ordination. We are inviting the congregation to pray the prayer above at 9 a…

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Nikos | Trey Pearson Interview – Athens First UMC

February 17, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

[Trey Pearson, the founder and former lead singer of the Christian band, “Everyday Sunday” made a surprise visit to our worship service on February 17 and sang. Trey came out about three years ago. The song above is “Silver Horizon” from his CD, “Love …

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Nikos | Sermon (Feb. 17) by Rev. Robert McDowell “Blessed Are You Who Trust”

February 17, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

     At first glance, it would seem that this morning’s scripture readings offer a clear choice on how to have a strong faith. Both Jeremiah in our Old Testament scripture reading and Jesus in our Gospel reading offer us the option of ei…

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Nikos | Sunday Worship (Feb. 10) Kappa Phi & Small Group Emphasis Sunday – Athens First UMC

February 10, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

[Today was Kappa Phi & Small Group Emphasis Sunday. Our theme was “A Loving Faith” which is one part of our three-part discipleship strategy to have a loving faith, a learning faith, and a living faith. The services were led by Dave Bayless, one of…

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Nikos | Sunday Pastoral Prayer (Feb. 3) Athens First UMC

February 4, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

Jesus, thank you for being so much more than our limited understanding. Thank you for being our Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Healer, Shepherd, Friend, and King. Forgive us for when we limit you or put you into the box of our own making.Help us to be humble …

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Nikos | Sermon (Feb. 3) by Rev. Robert McDowell “Joseph’s Boy”

February 3, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

     There were many advantages growing up as the last of four siblings. The main advantage was that I was able to avoid some of the same mistakes my older siblings had made when I became their age.     Another advantage w…

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Nikos | Sunday Pastoral Prayer (Jan. 27) Athens First UMC

January 28, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

[The picture above is Hallie Bowie, daughter of Lorraine Myers, a church member who recently moved to the northeast Ohio area. Hallie and Lorraine were in town this weekend and worshipped with us. Several years ago, Hallie had a big role in helping us …

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Nikos | Sermon (Jan. 27) by Rev. Robert McDowell “A Whole New Meaning”

January 27, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

    My best friend growing up used to play a trick on his dad for his birthday.  One year, he and his mother gave him a birthday card.  He very quickly glanced at the front of it, opened it, and set it aside not even reading th…

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Nikos | Sermon (Jan. 20) by Rev. Robert McDowell “A Marriage Made In Heaven”

January 20, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

     This June, Penny and I will celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary.  We were two very naïve people as we stood in front of the altar and offered our wedding vows to each other.      We had no idea of how har…

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Nikos | Sunday Pastoral Prayer (Jan. 20) Athens First UMC

January 20, 2019 By Robert McDowell Leave a Comment

Loving God, there’s still more than three weeks to go before Valentine’s Day and you are already telling us how much you love us. You have spoken to us this morning from the prophet Isaiah just so that we won’t forget that you delight in us, you care a…

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