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Deferred maintenance

10 Jan 20176 Jan 2017

This is our eighth winter living in the parsonage. Early on I learned about the home-made looking lever on the side of a piece of ductwork, and that I should…

Bricks and Mortar

3 Jan 20173 Jan 2017

I'm thinking about church, which is ordinary for me. I'm thinking that some of the things that are true for businesses and communities are also true for churches. So think…

Sifting our past for spiritual treasure

29 Dec 201613 Dec 2016

Well, thank God 2016 is over! The year of dreadful diagnoses, dreadful elections, deaths in the church family, and much more that I hope will soon be dropped into the garbage…

Choices, choices, choices

6 Nov 201613 Dec 2016

Every free and fair election leaves a lot of people disappointed. Despite our threats, most of us will neither move to Canada nor take up arms against the government if…

Keeping the Sacred Argument

31 Oct 20161 Nov 2016

In September I preached a series of messages called "Arguments in the Bible." In case you missed it then, I want to share the basic idea, and then to talk a…

Giving Tuesday November 29

29 Oct 201618 Oct 2016

This Advent, "Give Light, Give Love, and Give Life" through The Advance at umcmission.org/give. Thank you for your passion as we live out God's mission together. With blessings and…

The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis

24 Oct 201624 Oct 2016

In 1960, CS Lewis published The Four Loves. Starting November 6, Jeremy will give four messages, one for each of the four loves that Lewis talks about. We also will…

Eat together this Sunday

After worship on this Sunday, October 30, stick around for lunch of soup, bread, desserts, and most of all, people to sit and talk with while you eat. You'll get…

Haiti needs our help

14 Oct 201612 Oct 2016

Dear Friends, Last week, Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 145 mph, smashed through the Caribbean and on to our nation's coast leaving in its path…

After Coming Out Day

I posted the following Facebook message on my personal page yesterday morning. Good morning! It's National Coming Out Day. Let's affirm people who require unbelievable courage just to say out…