We always wonder why suffering happens. Join this journey as we unpack the experience of suffering, and more importantly how we respond to it.
Why Suffering: Why Bad Things Happen and The Unending Love of God
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Ministry Musings
For All The Saints: All Saint’s Sunday
9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. 10 They...
Moving in God’s Creation: Reflections from a Soul-Care Retreat
Walking as a spiritual movement can be a great gift. I invite you to walk at your own pace, engage as you wish, and connect with God’s creation. Embrace the joy of movement and the sense of renewal that comes with it. Take a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life and let the spirit within guide your steps.
Is Heaven Real: Questions of Faith
I unpack the nature of heaven, w reflecting on the already/not yet promise given by Christ in the gospels, and examinig John’s prophecy in Revelation 21.
Active Faith Podcast: Friends For the Journey – Monday Meditation
15 So she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you, to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your...
Our Vow: Faithfully Participating with Our Witness
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not...
Our Vow: Faithfully Participating with Your Gifts
What do we mean when we talk about gifts? Our minds often go straight to thinking about money, but this is more than that. What are we giving to the church? What does it look like to give to the church? Whether our time, talents, or treasures, are we willing to participate with our gifts to help support the church and God’s plan.
Our Vow: Faithfully Participating with Your Presence
19 Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us...
Our Vow: Faithfully Participating with Your Prayers
13 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. 14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 The prayer...
A Methodist Loves Others
1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have...