Shared by a friend, Deborah Anne Holstine, 7/6/2014. Worth repeating. “Hold the empty cup in your hands. Look at all the room the cup has for filling. Picture the inner part of yourself. Notice how much room there is for filling. Hold the cup out before you in...
God’s place…God’s time….I visited with a couple of families with members having surgery this morning and decided to have lunch at the hospital cafeteria, which I have never done before while on such a mission. I had on my LHUMC clergy name tag....
The Lord says to us in Isaiah 42:1, “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight.” God takes great delight in you. You give Him great joy. He finds pleasure and satisfaction in your worship and praise. And your obedience brings a...
“A sacrament is a sacrament even if the materials are less than perfect. One may prefer the best bread for the Eucharist, but the worst will still serve the purpose. One might prefer, with the ancient directives of the Didiche, to have cold, running water for...
Wisdom shared with me years ago said, ” We give as much of ourself as we can know to as much of God as we can understand.” It challenged me to engage in an inner journey of self discovery and a deep and broad and high and far-ranging search to know God...
In each of us lies the image of God ….. Christ himself awaits revelation and the fullness of God’s glory within my own spirit. Can I provide fertile soil and cultivation for The Vine that my life might yield fruit??? As God desires, may I be sown….. C.S. Lewis (The...
It’s a southern thing….. I remember my Dad and uncles shooting fireworks with all the kids on the front lawn at my Granny’s house, out away from the house near the road. It was exhilarating, terrifying, and the epitome of risk-taking for a bunch of little grandkids...
7/3/22 Today our pastor continued a series entitled “Timeless Bible Stories.” The featured story was of Noah and the ark from Genesis 6:9-8:14. The major points of the story are familiar to us but there are some subtleties that struck me today as we read...
An excerpt from my sermon entitled “Ebb and Flow, Come and Go, To and Fro”: The sign of the fish is a symbol that Christians have used since the time of the birth of the church, during times of persecution and in times of celebration to represent the...
From July 2, 2017: “On March 20,1997, as I drove home from a work appointment God directed my attention to this field, freshly plowed, along the roadside of Highway 231 South, just north of Cottondale. As I glanced toward it, God suddenly spoke in my heart,...
