Pastor’s Message: May 9, 2022
Psalm 7, as we discussed in worship yesterday, presents us with a poetic approach to understanding and celebrating the God who is with us and delivers when we are in trouble: the God who is by our side. “O Lord my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and...
Pastor’s Message: May 2, 2022
Yesterday was May 1. A day simply known as May Day in some quarters or International Workers Day in others. The observance of International Workers Day in the United States began on May 1, 1886, in the midst of the labor movement in response to the growing oppression of the industrial worker in cities around...
Pastor’s Message: April 25, 2022
In our Church Council meetings in 2022, we are undergoing a process of discernment as we seek where God is leading as we emerge from the pandemic of the last two years. This process will help inform how we make disciples for the transformation of the world. How we re-engage one another and our community as...
Communion Sunday is UMCOR Sunday
Next Sunday’s Communion Sunday offering is in celebration of UMCOR Sunday. This offering supports the United Methodist Committee on Relief that serves as our United Methodist boots on the ground when disasters like tornados and wildfires strike. UMCOR does not receive any funding from our local church apportionments which are paid to the United Methodist...
Pastor’s Message: April 18, 2022
Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! The Easter season is upon us. During this season, we are given the hope of new life through God’s love for all creation. God seeks to liberate us from sin. From suffering. From violence. From injustice. From oppression. From even death. We have assurance that we are beloved...
Pastor’s Message: April 11, 2022
Holy Week 2022 is upon us. We began our Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday reflecting on how, while our individual and collective sin has created chaos and brokenness, God’s grace calls into the hope of God’s future for creation. Through our intentional devotion and discipline during this season, God’s grace shapes us as disciples as...
Pastor’s Message: April 4, 2022
News broke approximately a month ago that General Conference 2020 had been postponed yet again, this time to 2024. Shortly thereafter, news broke concerning an announcement by a number of United Methodist caucus groups aligning with an unofficial organization called the Global Methodist Church that the GMC would be officially launching as a new denomination...
Pastor’s Message: March 28, 2022
We read and sing and talk a lot within the Church universal about God’s glory. But what is glory? It seems a rather amorphous term as we read of God being “worthy of glory and honor” or of how “God’s glory shone around.” It helps to put this term in the context in which it...