Recent united methodist

• And So It Begins

  It is after 2 am, and I cannot get to sleep.  My mind is still in overdrive as I consider all that needs to be done before Sunday, including:

  Lead a Bible Study tomorrow morning . . . er, in six hours.
  Prepare 3 bulletins - Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.
  Write sermons for Good Friday and [...]

  April 3rd, 2007

• This Week’s Quote - No Transformation Necessary?

  Leadership Journal’s online blog Out of Ur recently ran this quote from Dallas Willard, which I found intriguing:
  “We fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples.”
  The writer of the blog post then goes on to ask:
  But which is the greater problem, the person [...]

  March 30th, 2007

• "Find Your Path, Share the Journey" Redux

  Just the other day, I shared my feelings about the new advertising campaign of the

  December 21st, 2006

• Find Your Path, Share the Journey, Make Me Sick

  Okay, enough already. I’ve had it with the advertising efforts of the United Methodist Church. They are, in a word, inane. First, we suffered through “Catch the Spirit” in the 80’s and early 90’s. The “Holy Spirit as the common cold campaign” is how I saw it. It was also a grand case of false [...]

  December 15th, 2006

• Local Churches Told to "Stick It" by Judicial Council

  United Methodism’s highest court, the Judicial Council, recently told “local churches to stuff their congregational tendencies where the sun doesn’t shine.”
  In a ruling from its late October session the Council sided with a decision by the Bishop of the Iowa Annual Conference when they declared, in essence, that local churches should have no say in [...]

  December 12th, 2006