This week, the sermon on the mount continues, as we hear Jesus telling us not to worry. Like so many scriptures, it’s so easy to read this as just another platitude, and go right back to thinking (worrying) about the economy, piracy and gas prices, jobs and joblessness, the cost of higher education. In telling [...]
With a daughter who’s two and a half, I spend a fair amount of time explaining rules. “No, you can’t climb up your dresser like a llama.” “No, you can’t go play in the snow in just a diaper.” “No, you can’t carry Charlie down the stairs.” There are all kinds of rules in life. [...]
In 120 years of ministry, Faith United Methodist Church has been served by 40 different pastors. Some part-time pastors served as little as three months. The longest pastorate was Rev. Thomas McKeown who served from 1953-1963. Each pastor brings their own gifts, strengths, and weaknesses, and different people connect differently with different pastors. I’ve heard [...]
Yesterday, Phil (the groundhog) didn’t see his shadow. In the midst of a huge storm, affecting something like a third of our country, a groundhog told us spring is coming early this year. How many of us, anxious for warmer weather, flowers blooming, trees budding, want to believe him? We want to believe Spring is [...]
Blessed. This week, our scripture lessons invite us to think carefully about the blessings and requirements (Matthew and Micah) of discipleship. We tend to think of those who are blessed as those who are successful, happy, wealthy. But, Jesus, as always has other ideas. The Message puts it this way, 3“You’re blessed when you’re at [...]
