WORSHIP SERVICE FROM 5.10.09

by Steve

Worship Solo: “Called Home” music by Marcia Wooten and Steve Kirby Sermon: “I Love My Mother, But…”

RETHINKING CHURCH….5.09.09

by Steve

http://www.umcom.org/site/lookup.asp?c=mrLZJ9PFKmG&b=4980051 paste this link into your browsers, and see what the United Methodist Church is up to! Exciting!

GOD AND GUNS…5.5.09

by Steve

From our United Methodist General Board of Discipleship: Guns and prayer A reflection on issues that still divide us By John Basel April 20 marked the tenth anniversary of that horrible day at Columbine High School in Colorado when more than a dozen students were killed by two classmates. That senseless shooting, the fourth highest [...]

THE IDOLATRY OF CHURCH-JUMPING…5.3.09

by Steve

From my fellow UM minister, Tom Steagald, of Stanley, NC: Whenever you see a church named New Hope,” a friend used to say, “there’s an old hope out there somewhere.” My town has a new congregation, a shaky little fellowship called Solid Rock Baptist Church. I understand there was a power struggle at a larger [...]

DOES THIS SURPRISE ANYONE? 5.1.09

by Steve

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey. More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or [...]