Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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The Last Goodbye
It was the last goodbye. The only thing was, I didn’t know it at the time. My father seemed like he was feeling better. It had been a week since we learned the news that he had cancer. Before that, he simply wasn’t feeling right. After a couple of weeks of feeling bad he decided…
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A Reason To Sit in the Back Pew (or An Illustration Gone Bad)
KOKOMO, Ind. — A pastor trying to demonstrate the concept of unity to his congregation broke his wrist when he accidentally drove a motorcycle off a 5-foot platform inside the church. Kokomo pastor crashes motorcycle in church | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star Not too much of a point to this post. This happened…
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Interstate Batteries and God’s Love
UPDATE: Therefore, I’m turning off the comments since the post is over 11 years old. I found myself watching football yesterday and a commercial came on basically proclaiming that we need more of God’s love. At first, I thought that it might be one of ‘our’ UMC commercials (which would have been way cool). I…
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Light to my Feet, or Weight Around my Neck
In Psalm 119, the writer shares his love of God’s word. He wants to learn it, be guided by it and meditate on it day and night. He views it as a light, and a comfort and in God’s word he places his trust. I have not always resonated with Psalm 119. Instead, I…
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Sex Scandal Plagues Methodist Founders
Monday, March 22 [1736] While I was persuading Mr Welch not to concern himself in this disturbance, I heard Mrs Hawkins cry out: Murder! and walked away. Returning out of the woods, I was informed by Mr Welch that poor blockhead Mrs Welch had joined with Mrs Hawkins and the Devil in their slanders of…
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Coded diary of Methodist Church co-founder Charles Wesley is cracked after 270 years | Mail Online
A 270-year-old diary, written in code, has been cracked for the first time to reveal a secret history of the Methodist church, it emerged today. Link: Mail Online That’s the news coming from a UK site. The Rev Professor Kenneth Newport, Liverpool Hope University’s pro vice-chancellor for research and academic development was the…