A BRIEF HISTORY What follows is an attempt to give the reader a flavor of the sumptuous meal that is offered by the United Methodist Church for those willing to sit at the Table of Fellowship. I’m offering this in response to the many confused looks I’ve received from visitors and members alike who enjoy […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGq-z9msAw&feature=player_embedded] “Sin is the missing of a target, a wandering from the path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard heart and stiff neck. Sin is blindness and deafness. It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach it – both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a beast crouching […]
see Luke 22:14-34 the Cross became for the early church a symbol of hope, life and transformation. Yet it was to those outside the church a symbol of death, humiliation, and condemnation, certainly nothing to rally behind. So what made the Cross so powerfula symbol that people would change their lives because of it. Will […]
I spoke to a man the other day who does market research (focus groups and interviews) with a wide range of people: what they like and don’t like; what they think and feel about various things. He said that overwhelmingly what people want more than anything else is belonging: to fit in and be accepted; […]