Valuing Our Global Family by Kim Reisman

January 30, 2017

Politicians have interests from which Christians may be joyously free. Our faith family is not contained by state lines or party lines, by skin color or culture, by language or ethnicity.

We are free to love each other. And we are free to love others.

What a gift.

Celtic Christianity And The Coloring Craze by Tammie Grimm

Chances are, you or someone you know gave or received a coloring book for adults in the last year. With…

Is Sin Necessary To Know Jesus? Why It Matters by Elizabeth Glass Turner

January 26, 2017

“Jesus has a body but the Father and Spirit do not. Discuss.” One of my acquaintances posted this on social…

Suicide And The Enemy Of Our Souls by Carolyn Moore

January 25, 2017

Yet another acquaintance lost his life to depression over the holidays. Such loss leaves everyone devastated on multiple levels. When…

Spirit Nudges: Winston Worrell’s Life of Listening by Kim Reisman

January 18, 2017

God’s preferred method of interacting with us is to use particular people at particular times, usually to deliver a particular message.

Visible Tokens: Communion through a Chain Link Fence by Kim Reisman

January 16, 2017

Every month, on the day the gate opens, the Methodist Church is present – on both sides of the wall. There is conversation. There is prayer.

And there is Holy Communion.

Be Careful Little Tongue What You Say by Andy Stoddard

January 15, 2017

We had a funny moment here in our house the other night. My oldest was filling out a form to take…

Everything That Is Hurt: St Symeon by Kim Reisman

January 11, 2017

And everything that is hurt, everything
That seemed to us dark, harsh, shameful,
Maimed, ugly, irreparably damaged
Is in Him transformed.

Kodak, Hirsch, and the Future of the Church by James Petticrew

I doubt there is a more used and less understood word in the contemporary church than “missional.” Missional is not about being better at being Kodak in a digital photograph world.

Unknown Gods by Kim Reisman

January 9, 2017

The question remains. Do we really know the High God? How would our lives change if we really understood the fact that the God made real in Jesus Christ – the God of the world – loves each tribe and nation equally? How would that understanding change how we looked at other tribes and clans – even in our own communities? How would we act and relate to others?