By Dr. Johannah Myers I don’t know about you, but my desk looks like Easter exploded on it. I could host an Easter egg hunt in my office alone. But alas, my desk will recover – eventually. Somewhere buried in all the Easter glitter, here’s what else has been on my desk this month: God’s […]
We’re Going on an Adventure
by Crystal Goetz, Director of Family Ministries at Puyallup United Methodist Church in Puyallup, Washington I love the story of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, and company on their adventures in Middle Earth. As is true with any adventure, there are always challenges. It is, in many ways, like our faith […]
God Created Us for Community
by Rev. Chelsea G. Benham, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown, Kentucky They say that us preachers only have a few core sermons, and that all our other sermons are just variations on those themes. If that’s true, one of my core sermons is this: God created us for community. When God made Adam, […]
The Role of Listening in a Messy Church
by Luke Edwards, Associate Director of Church Development for the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church In my first year of starting a fresh expression of church, I remember one Sunday when my wife gave me a healthy dish of humble pie. I was leading this new, experimental worship service with […]