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
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Finding Light in a Darkroom
The art of meditating on scripture involves using one’s imagination. Instead of simply reading a passage, we must read it,
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A Centennial Birthday!
One hundred years ago, on September 7, 1918, First Methodist Episcopal Church of Orion (as it was known back then)
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When Was I Saved?
Every evening on our YouthWorks mission trips, the staff plans an activity for us. It may be educational, inspirational, fun,
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Prepare Your Hearts for Sunday
I’ll serve communion on Sunday, August 5 and again on Thursday evening, August 9. Scriptures include 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a; Psalm
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Don’t Harm Yourself!
The recent suicides of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain shocked our nation and brought face-to-face with
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When God’s Gift of Free Will is Abused
As humans, we have been lovingly created by God. One of the ways God has expressed his love to us
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Praying for a Way Forward
Following the 2016 General Conference of the United Methodist Church, a Commission on the Way Forward was created to address
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Prepare Your Hearts for Sunday
When we last worshipped together in 2017, we observed Epiphany which celebrates the Christ being made known to the Gentiles
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A Violent Season
It’s been a violent season. Fifty-eight died in a mass shooting in Las Vegas during an October 1 country concert.
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When Truth Is Overstated
When I was in high school I had a poster in my room with a drawing of a teenage boy
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A Quincentenary
Five hundred years ago, a young German monk walked from his monastery, across the town of Wittenberg, to the Castle
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Perfect Love
On Sunday, August 6 (below) I preached a sermon about the “Sanctification of America.” Little did I realize how timely
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In Prayer and Witness
On Friday, April 28, the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church ruled that the consecration of a gay bishop
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A Dream Come True
In 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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