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Toward Sunday
We’ll conclude our worship series this Sunday with a celebration of Baptism and the sharing of our Deep Commitments. Here is a link to the online Deep Commitment Card. Please share your Deep Commitments online or in worship by placing them in an offering plate this Sunday. OUTLINE: flour. salt. yeast. water. Beautiful, simple, & inspiring ingredients for making Deep Commitments at The Table. October 2: Ingredients & Recipes Method in Methodism. Rooted in Grace. Growing in Faith. Reaching in love. Giving Generously. …
Toward Sunday
We draw our worship series, How Deep?, to a close this Sunday by offering our Deep Commitments. Please prayerfully consider how you would like to deepen your commitment to God and our community of faith in the coming year. Here is a link to our online Deep Commitment Card.
Holy persons
Parker Palmer shares a story about one of God’s children like this. “On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks – an African American woman who was a seamstress and in her early 40’s – did something she was not supposed to do; she sat down at the front of a bus in one of the seats reserved for whites – a dangerous, daring and provocative act in a racist society. Legend has it that, years later, a graduate…
Baptism
“Baptism is an act that looks back with gratitude on what God’s grace has already accomplished, it is here and now an act of God’s grace, and it looks forward to what God’s grace will accomplish in the future….Baptism anticipates a lifetime of further and deeper experiences of God, further acts of Christian commitment, and ministries in the world.” (United Methodist Book of Worship pg. 81) How often do you remember your baptism? What about your baptism has been meaningful…
Toward Sunday
We continue our series, How Deep?, this Sunday with a celebration of Baptism. How Deep? Oct 5 rooted in Grace (Matthew 14.22-33) Oct 12 growing in faith (Matthew 14.22-33) Oct 19 reaching in love (Matthew 14.22-33) Oct 26 Celebration of Baptism (Matthew 22.34-40) Nov 2 Deep Commitment Sunday (Matthew 23.1-12) The United Methodist Church teaches “that in baptism God initiates a covenant with us, announced with the words, “The Holy Spirit works within you, that being born through water and…
Reaching
John Wesley defined Methodists during his life as people who ‘unite together to encourage and help each other in…working out their salvation, and for that end watch over one another in love’ (from A Blueprint for Discipleship p. 109). Who do you watch over in love? How is your faith made deeper from this act? Who watches over you in love? How has this love inspired your faith?
I wonder
This scene of Jesus and Peter on the water with the disciples looking on from the boat has been our image for wondering How Deep? How Deep? are we are willing to go this year as we root our lives in Grace, grow in faith and reach in love? As you go through your day today we be aware of the opportunities around you for reaching in love to others. In your workplace, in your classroom, at home and in…
Toward Sunday
We continue our series this Sunday called How Deep? Our church continues to grow in number and depth because of the deep commitments of so many. Each fall we devote an entire worship series to reflecting on the depth of the commitment we would like to make to God & our church for the coming year. We will focus each of the first three weeks on the simple (artisan) ingredients that frame our life together: rooted in Grace, growing in…
Trust
“If we stretch our faith toward the real challenges life can bring, accept the uncertainties of living, realize we will never know the answer to every question, and dare to trust God in spite of the unknown, we will truly find life is an adventure in faith that leads us toward the fullness of God and expands our horizons of trust in God.” ~David E. Roberts. What difference, if any, might it make for you go out on…
Faith
“The life of faith, and the instinct of faith are one and the same. It is an enjoyment of the goods of God, and a confidence founded on the expectation of God’s protection, making everything pleasant and received with a good grace. It is indifference to, and at the same time a preparation for every place, state, or person. Faith is never unhappy even when the senses are most desolate. This lively faith is always in God, always in God’s action…
I wonder
David Lose writes: “After feeding the thousands who followed him into the wilderness, Jesus commands the disciples to head across the sea without him while he remains on shore to send the crowds on their way and then spend some time in communion with his Father on the mountain. While the disciples are crossing, a storm arises that threatens to engulf them. They spend the better part of an anxious night navigating the waves, and in the early hours of…
Toward Sunday
We continue our worship series this Sunday called How Deep? Our church continues to grow in number and depth because of the deep commitments of so many. Each fall we devote an entire worship series to reflecting on the depth of the commitment we would like to make to God & our church for the coming year. We will focus each of the first three weeks on the simple (artisan) ingredients that frame our life together: rooted in Grace, growing…
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