For the next few weeks, the sermon series is on songs. Today’s song is Amazing Grace. Who has not heard the song “Amazing Grace?” A lot of people know this song or have heard this song. President Obama sang the words of Amazing Grace to comfort grieving families at a memorial service in Charleston, South Carolina. Amazing…
A young doctor was just setting up his first office when his secretary told him there was a man to see him. The doctor wanted to make a good first impression by having the man think he was successful and very busy. He told his secretary to show the man in. At that moment, the…
Turn Around and Try Again One way roads in places I do not know well are the bane of my existence. In the last month, I have been in Lancaster city twice, once for our Annual Conference, and this last week for our Jurisdictional Conference. Lancaster has many one-way roads. I wanted every road to…
Second Chance for Them?? When I was a little girl, we had a game called Simon. Popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the game would show a pattern, you were to follow the pattern. If you got it right, you were given the next pattern with an additional tone. If you got it…
A minister told his congregation, “Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17.” The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had…
The 2nd letter to Timothy, written by the Apostle Paul, was a personal letter. Paul wrote it during the days of his house imprisonment and is the last letter or book Paul wrote. He writes to Timothy, to encourage him, for he was his son in the Gospel. So, here was Paul the aged one, encouraging Timothy, the young pastor, to go forward…
Today, we conclude our series on miracles of how God is STILL MOVING TODAY! I give thanks to God for each and every one of you who has shared a story of God moving in your life with me. I hope we will be able to share some of those stories in the future of…
When I met Clara, she was already 101. She had lived in her home for a good 77 of those years. She moved from her parents’ home, one filled with violence and exacting rules to her husband’s family farm, where she was never good enough, but her one son was the apple of everyone’s eye…
Today, we pick up on the miracles of God that we began talking about last week in this series of Does God still move today? We have often heard people whisper in moments of honesty and fear that God does not still move among us. They read the incredible stories from the Old and New…
This morning, we begin a new sermon series on Does God still Move Today? Miracles in the Bible and Miracles today. We have sometimes imagined that God’s primary work was done between the borders of Genesis and Revelation. That God did incredible and miraculous acts contained in the Bible, but is no longer in that…