Pastor’s Message: June 1st, 2020
Well, CHUMC family, we continue to worship online through at least the month, and once we open it will be in stages so it may be some time before things return to normal. One other result of our current circumstances has been the inability to have an all-church meeting so I thought I would give...
Pastor’s Message: May 26th, 2020
As businesses start to open and some things are starting to reach a form of new normal, it is natural for a question to arise: when will we be able to gather for in-person worship once again? We know increasing numbers of churches are gathering back together and may wonder when that will include us. ...
Pastor’s Message: March 10th, 2020
Chapel Hill Family, We entered the second rotation of our Rolling Lenten Fast this week. We continue our daily prescribed fasts which we undertake as we seek to calibrate our focus on and trust in our God of love and grace. As we do so, there is a tiny part of our fast I would...
Pastor’s Message: March 3rd, 2020
Chapel Hill Family, This week I write to share some exciting news that has taken shape over the past few months. As of the first of the year, we are partnering with Synergy Wesley Foundation to connect with students at Brookhaven College. Synergy is a United Methodist ministry for college students based at the University...
Pastor’s Message: February 25th, 2020
Chapel Hill Family, A couple of your fellow CHUMC members and I attended the North Texas Conference of the UMC Immigration Summit two weeks ago at Lovers Lane UMC. We enjoyed a wonderful time of worship and reflection on the humanitarian crisis occurring on our border. It has been my intent to travel down to...
Pastor’s Message: February 18th, 2020
By next Wednesday, we enter again into the season of Lent, our 40-day season of discipline and devotion. As United Methodists, we speak often of our disciplines, or means of grace, which we know we can practice as the ordinary means by which we can receive grace in the prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying stages of...
Pastor’s Message: February 11th, 2020
Chapel Hill Family, In the film City Slickers, city slicker Mitch Robbins and his city-slicker friends are riding on horseback on a cattle drive alongside the rough and rugged Cowboy Curly. The cattle drive is part of a mid-life crisis Mitch has found himself in the midst of as he wonders what life holds next...
Pastor’s Message: February 4th, 2020
Chapel Hill Family, This past Sunday, we began our worship series entitled “The Blessed Life.” As we explored “The Beatitudes” in Matthew 5:1-12 together, we explored the connections between Jesus’ teaching and Isaiah. These connections exist because when God arrived in the flesh, God did so in the midst of the Jewish prophetic tradition. The...