A portion of one of my goals for 2007 includes: Reading books on the subject of the emerging movement within the Christian church and writing a two page summary of the book to include: summary of themes, possible applications and relevance to the United Methodist Church and possible applications and relevance to The United Methodist […]
A post at churchrelevance.com brought my attention to a visual representation of the geopgraphy of religion over 5000 years. I found it to be a fascinating look at broad sweeps of history. You can find this 90 second clip at Maps of War via this link. Thanks, Kent.
My office at the church is just down the hall from the office work room. Every Thursday afternoon I hear the thump-thump-thump of the risograph machine churning out Sermon Notes and Study Guides and Prayer Guides for the bulletin. This week, however, production has started for Candlelight Christmas Eve bulletins and will continue through tomorrow. […]
On Saturday, I was able to take part in a mission project with my small group. At The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, one of the entry level mission opportunities is called FaithWork. It was a great experience. We arrived on Saturday morning, signed up for one of about a dozen projects that were […]
Yesterday I purchased windshield washer fluid for my vehicle. When I went to the local auto store and asked for windshield washer fluid, they pointed me to a stack of boxes. There were two choices: evergreen and cherry vanilla. They were both windshield fluid with de-icer. However, I had never considered the possibility of having […]
Tuesday is my assigned day for hospital visits. Each of the pastors of Congregational Care has a particular day to which we are assigned to visit people in the hospital, pray before surgery, etc. Today I had five visits in four different and traveled forty miles. This has been the busiest day for me thus […]
In this blog, I tend to use different names when referring to particular communities. Language is important and I want to try to clarify what I mean. References may include the following:community of faith – a gathering of people united by a particular faith. This could be of any faith tradition.the church – the universal […]
An article titled “Pastors less informed about popular culture than are the people in their churches” was recently brought to my attention in this post by Kent at Church Relevance. From the article at Ellison Research: Sellers [Ron Sellers, President of Ellison Research] also noted that one criticism people often have about churches is that […]
In a previous post, Embers of the Fire, I posed several questions in regards to revitalization of churches. My responses are…Do these reflections apply to your community of faith?I believe that these reflections apply to my current community of faith. At this time, the local church of which I am a part is considering ways […]
While home for Thanksgiving, John Henry Faulk’s Christmas Story was shared with my family. I want to share this beautiful Christmas story with you. This narrative touches on some of the themes of the gospel: concern for the poor, equality of all races, and making room for all at the table. From the beginning of […]
During Staff Chapel on November 30, Adam Hamilton spoke on Part IV of Thomas Merton’s Life and Holiness.On page 73 of Life and Holiness, Thomas Merton writes: It is quite possible to “believe in Christ,” in the sense of mentally accepting the truth that he lived on earth, died, and rose from the dead, and […]
I read a post by Cory Miller at Church Communications Pro that piqued my interest. Cory’s post, Houston, rather [Insert Your City Name Here], We Have a Problem, starts with this sentence: Humor me and try an experiment … go to Google and type in “church” and see what site gets top billing in the […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 