Greetings. Our Associate Pastor, Rev. Rusty Young is the guest blogger on my blogpost today. I’ll look for you at Fall Festival and on Sunday! Breathe Peace, Like many of you, my life is busy. As you can imagine, between martial arts, destination imagination, dance, piano, baseball, and schoolwork, my three daughters have busy schedules […]
In an All Saints’ Day journal entry dated Monday, November 1, 1756, John Wesley writes, “How superstitious are they who scruple giving God solemn thanks for the lives and deaths of his saints.” Maybe your 18th century English is pretty good, but mine is not, so I needed to google the meaning of the word […]
There are two small seas in the region, which are quite different in their characteristics. Both of these bodies of water are more like lakes by the rest of the world’s standards. But in an area where water is very scarce, it is understandable that they came to be known as seas. One of them […]
In 2006, the results of a study conducted by San Francisco’s Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic created lots of conversations and even more jokes at the expense of women everywhere. The study claimed that women speak an average of 20,000 words per day while men spoke a mere 7,000 words per day. For a few […]
On October 7th at FUMCMC, we will begin the discussion that has consumed the United Methodist Church over the last 46 years. During that time, we have spent large sums of money and countless hours discussing, debating and sometimes arguing over the issue of sexuality. I have watched people I care about, who might not […]
Many of you are familiar with the struggle happening within the United Methodist Church regarding the Church’s stance on the issue of human sexuality. The struggle to find common ground has been a major part of the discussions taking place at General Conference since 1972. This past General Conference (2016), the Conference asked the Council […]
The philosopher Frederick Nietzsche, who popularized the idea that “God is dead,” once said, “If these Christians want me to believe in their god, they’ll have to sing better songs, they’ll have to look more like people who have been saved, they’ll have to wear on their countenance the joy of the beatitudes. I could […]
