Prepare Your Hearts for Worship
We’ll begin April with Holy Communion on Sunday, April 7. It’s also the Fifth Sunday in Lent which is known
Read moreWe’ll begin April with Holy Communion on Sunday, April 7. It’s also the Fifth Sunday in Lent which is known
Read moreThe art of meditating on scripture involves using one’s imagination. Instead of simply reading a passage, we must read it,
Read moreOne hundred years ago, on September 7, 1918, First Methodist Episcopal Church of Orion (as it was known back then)
Read moreEvery evening on our YouthWorks mission trips, the staff plans an activity for us. It may be educational, inspirational, fun,
Read moreI’ll serve communion on Sunday, August 5 and again on Thursday evening, August 9. Scriptures include 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a; Psalm
Read moreThe recent suicides of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain shocked our nation and brought face-to-face with
Read moreAs humans, we have been lovingly created by God. One of the ways God has expressed his love to us
Read moreFollowing the 2016 General Conference of the United Methodist Church, a Commission on the Way Forward was created to address
Read moreWhen we last worshipped together in 2017, we observed Epiphany which celebrates the Christ being made known to the Gentiles
Read moreIt’s been a violent season. Fifty-eight died in a mass shooting in Las Vegas during an October 1 country concert.
Read moreWhen I was in high school I had a poster in my room with a drawing of a teenage boy
Read moreFive hundred years ago, a young German monk walked from his monastery, across the town of Wittenberg, to the Castle
Read moreOn Sunday, August 6 (below) I preached a sermon about the “Sanctification of America.” Little did I realize how timely
Read moreOn Friday, April 28, the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church ruled that the consecration of a gay bishop
Read moreIn the fall of 2006—shortly after I arrived in Orion—several of us met for a “dream session” to consider what
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