The Vibrant Church Initiative conducted a Consultation Weekend for the people of Mission Bend United Methodist Church last weekend, February 26-28, 2016. Over those three days, a four-person team conducted focus groups of congregation members and leaders, interviews with the pastors and staff, a Saturday all-church workshop on the changing landscape of culture and churches, […]
A Year with Luke the Evangelist – Introduction
A YEAR WITH LUKE THE EVANGELIST The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1, verses 1-4 Read it here: [CEB] [NRSV] Why read the work of Luke the Evangelist during the course of the year? Well, counting all the chapters of his 2-volume work, what we call The Gospel according to Luke and The Acts of the […]
What Does a Pastor Do?
Having just finished Charge Conference for the year I was asked to take a minute and help people understand what pastors do. It occurred to me that if one person asked, then others may have been wondering the same and coming up empty! I could give you a run-down of my day to day activities […]
Pastoral Letter to the Church after Mother Emanuel AME Church Shootings
We began our worship at Mission Bend United Methodist Church this Sunday with the words below. The things we pray for, living Lord, may we have the grace to labor for. “We think of Christ as our peace; we may call ourselves true Christians only if our lives express Christ by our own peace.” —Gregory of […]
What is Ordinary Time?
Sounds pretty boring, doesn’t it? “Ordinary Time.” Especially compared to the anticipation and excitement of Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, even All Saints’ Day. So why does the Church insist on calling it that? Even if it’s not an exciting stretch of the liturgical calendar, couldn’t we give it a better name? It’s a fairly functional designation: each Sunday […]
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