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The Way The Spirit Moves - June 4, 2017
I was raised in a pretty traditional UMC and I don't remember any specific teachings on the Holy Spirit. I know it was there. I learned about the Trinity and believed in the 3 persons, including the Holy Spirit. I knew it was part of God, but beyond that, we never really talked about it doing anything tangible.
So, this story in Acts always seemed a little far-fetched. The Holy Spirit came and then the disciples started speaking in languages they had never learned. The spirit showed up like tongues of fire. Thousands of nonbelievers hear about Jesus and decide, that day, to
The Family We Choose - May 28, 2017
How many have heard the phrase, "blood is thicker than water"? And how many of you were raised to live by that principle? Family comes first. Loyalty to blood over friends or others. You help family before all others. Anybody?
I was raised in a family where the family took priority. It wasn't exactly to that extreme. We wouldn't deny help to someone else, but family was always to rank as a top priority in how you spent your time, and where your loyalties lay. And, I was extremely fortunate to have a healthy family with good communication and strong relationships. We grew up
Hope In the face Of Addiction - May 21, 2017
Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about relationships with Friends and Family. We've tried, to be honest, and real. These relationships are messy. We'd like to idealize them or pretend our family has it all together, but the reality is, we all have stuff...Even church people. We all have struggles. As we look at families and relationships, one of the realities we need, to be honest about is addiction. Addiction dwells and sometimes lurks, in most of our families...most probably all of our families. It takes on a variety of shapes and forms...alcohol, cigarettes,
Parenting Faithfully - May 14, 2017
I've heard this story for a long time. It's a Sunday school staple. And, for a long time, I've thought Abraham was crazy. Even before I was a parent, even before I was grown, I thought....who does that?! Who takes their kid up a hill, ready to offer him as a sacrifice? That man is nuts.
And then, when I got to seminary, I was taught to question the biblical stories....not to simply take them at face value, but to dig deeper and look harder for what may have happened. And it was then that I concluded Abraham just misheard God. God didn't really ask Abraham to go up on a hill carrying rope, wood, fire, and a knife expecting to sacrifice his
Skeletons and Secrets - May 7, 2017
Who knew they had that kind of stuff in the scriptures?! It's almost like a story on Jerry Springer, not exactly the story you'd expect to hear on a Sunday morning, but it's one that shows us, that it doesn't matter which family line you're part of...Abraham, Kind David, or Jesus himself...there are issues...sometimes messy, icky, no one even wants to mention it kind of issues. (Now granted all those guys are from the same family, but we don't always talk about that either). And honestly, one would think, that in editing the scriptures, in choosing books or stories, it might have come up once or twice to leave out the mess...and yet they didn't, it's in there in all its glory...maybe as a light or hope or something to us, as readers that says..."Hey, even these
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Moscow, ID 83843
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The First United Methodist Church of Moscow, Idaho takes as our mission to be the body of Jesus Christ, ministering to a community which draws strength from its diversity. Our mission centers on the worship of God, expressed through varied forms of prayer, preaching, music, and ritual. See more...